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January 30, 2023

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its latest progress report on the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) entitled ...

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Africa Lags Behind in Trans Fat Elimination Efforts, says WHO Report

January 23, 2023

According to a new status report from the World Health Organization (WHO), five billion people globally remain unprotected from harmful ...

COVID-19: Sequencing has dropped by over 90% since Omicron

January 11, 2023

The World Health Organization's Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has urged countries to increase their COVID-19 sequencing efforts and share data ...

Ebola outbreak officially over in Uganda

January 11, 2023

Uganda has declared the end of an Ebola outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, just four months after the first case ...

Why the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be declared over yet

January 24, 2023

While the COVID-19 pandemic has declined significantly in 2022, there are still many gaps and uncertainties that prevent the World ...

Measles is an imminent threat worldwide

November 24, 2022

There has been a significant setback in global progress towards achieving and maintaining measles elimination and the decline leaves millions ...

COVID-19 deaths are increasing in Africa, WHO warns

January 24, 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concerns about the trend of COVID-19 deaths in Africa. Addressing the 150th Executive ...

U.N. Member States commit to advance towards universal health coverage

Call for urgent action on meningitis

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September 28, 2021

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners launched the first ever global strategy to defeat meningitis - a debilitating ...

In Nigeria, WHO DG says countries cannot afford not to invest in their health systems

COVID-19 will end when the world chooses to end it — WHO DG

July 22, 2021