The World Health Organization has announced that Congo’s latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is not yet considered a global health emergency.
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(GENEVA) — U.N. agencies are calling for an end to the practice in some countries of determining whether a girl or woman is a virgin through gynecological tests.
The World Health Organization, U.N. Women and the U.N. Human Rights office say the “medically unnecessary” tests have been...
Nigeria is said to be among the 14 high burden countries for Tuberculosis (TB), TB/HIV and multi-drug resistant TB and has also been ranked seventh among the 30 high TB burden countries in the world and second in Africa.
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These are some of the reports in the health sector published last week: Flood Disaster: WHO steps up disease prevention efforts In a bid to prevent disastrous epidemics, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is stepping up efforts to provide life-saving assistance, especially basic …...
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The World Health Organisation has said that more than 3 million people died as a result of harmful use of alcohol in 2016. WHO said the total number represents one in 20 deaths, of which more than three quarters...
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Over the next year in the village of Bana, Burkina Faso, a group of scientists will set loose up to 10,000 mosquitoes sprinkled with fluorescent dust. The sterile, male swarm will represent the first ever release of a genetically modified, malaria carrying mosquito species....
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The World Hepatitis Day is marked and held annually on July 28.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised an alarm over millions of people who have viral hepatitis but are unaware or unable to...
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Nigeria has every reason to be concerned as measles return with vengeance in northern Nigeria and other parts of the world especially in Europe.
Little wonder that, measles vaccination was...
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Nigeria needs to produce an estimated 450,000 health workers yearly in the next ten years to achieve the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Senior Technical Advisor for....
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The World Health Organisation (WHO), has recommended that every adult should consume less than five grammes of salt or less than one teaspoon daily to maintain a....
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