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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has disclosed that Nigeria and 54 other countries in its health workforce support and safeguard list are struggling with personnel shortages. The organisation said with the impact of…

First wild poliovirus case in Africa in more than five years has been detected in a young child in Malawi, World Health Organization said on Thursday. Laboratory analysis showed that the detected strain is linked to one that has been…

Ivory Coast has declared a first case of the Ebola hemorrhagic virus in 25 years, the health minister and World Health Organization (WHO) said separately on Saturday. Officials at the Institut Pasteur had confirmed the case after…

World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Delta variant of coronavirus is driving the pandemic forward in Africa at record speeds. Infection numbers have increased in Africa for six weeks running, rising by a quarter week-on-week…

World Health Organization (WHO) has on Wednesday officially granted China a malaria-free certification as a token of celebration of the country's successful elimination of the disease after a 70 years effort to eradicate the disease.…

World Health Organization have approved Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use — the second Chinese jab to receive the WHO’s green light. The UN health agency signed off on the two-dose vaccine on Tuesday, which is already being…

India's coronavirus death toll has on Wednesday, April 28 surpassed 200,000, with more than 3,000 fatalities reported in just 24 hours. The development follows World Health Organization’s warning that a variant of COVID-19 to be…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said at least 42 countries are already rolling out various COVID-19 vaccines which have been cleared for use with 36 of them as high income nations. WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, made…

World Health Organization has announced that China blocked its team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, from entering the country. WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement on Wednesday,…

World Health Organisation has said the overuse of antibiotics to treat the coronavirus — sometimes unnecessarily — has caused a sexually transmitted infection, Super Gonorrhoea to find a new way to thrive. Gonorrhea is a bacterial…

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for a “quantum leap in funding” for the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) initiative to speed up the development of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics. The…