As the world marks World Oral Health Day, the Acting WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has called for greater commitment to tackling oral diseases in the region. With oral health often overlooked, he emphasised its crucial role in overall well-being and the urgent need for stronger policies and interventions. World Oral Health…
The U.S. freeze on aid has left the World Health Organisation (WHO) without 46 million dollars to evacuate seriously ill patients from Gaza and rebuild damaged hospitals in the coastal strip A representative of the organisation said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters via video link from the Gaza Strip, Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO coordinator for…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have launched the distribution of essential childhood cancer medicines in two of the six pilot countries under the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines. In a statement on Tuesday, the WHO revealed that medicines are currently being delivered to Mongolia and Uzbekistan,…
The executive board meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday was set to take on an atmosphere of crisis as it grappled with the consequences of the looming withdrawal of the U.S. Since President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to exit the WHO on his first day back in office, there has been…
Dr Ejike Oji, Chairman, Association for the Advancement of Family Planning in Nigeria (AAFP), says there is no better time for the Nigerian health sector to be innovative than now. Oji said this on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Abuja, while responding to the pulling out of America from…
Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, said the organisation regretted the decision of the United States to withdraw from it. Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The statement read: “the World Health Organisation regrets the announcement that the United States…
The World Health Organization (WHO), on Wednesday, announced that eight persons have been killed in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Tanzania’s Northwestern region of Kagera. In a statement on Tuesday, the WHO warned that the risk of further spread of the deadly disease in the country and the region was high. WHO…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has prequalified the first diagnostic test for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, a critical tool for safely administering WHO-recommended treatments to prevent relapse of Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) malaria. In a statement on Wednesday, WHO emphasised that the decision reflected updated processes designed to enhance efficiency and accessibility of life-saving health…
The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the risk of avian flu spreading to a wider population remains “low” a day after the United States reported its first human death from bird flu. WHO spokesperson Dr. Margaret Harris told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday that the H5N1 virus causing the disease is “not…
The Nigeria-American Institute for Mental Health (NAIMH) will set to train healthcare workers on World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Mental Health Gap Action Programme (MH-GAP) guidelines in Nigeria. The institute’s Secretary, Board of Trustees, Dr Azubuike Aliche, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that MH-GAP is…
