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The public health risk from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been upgraded from high to very high, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. The risk level remains high at the regional level and low…
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A global analysis released this week by the World Health Organisation (WHO) says that up to four in every ten new cancer cases could be prevented through changes in behaviour, stronger policies, and public health action. The findings,…
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As the world marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that no fewer than 400,000 children are diagnosed with cancer globally every year — the equivalent of three children every four minutes.…
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The Chief Executive Officer, Royal Public Health Advancement Initiative, Dr Abbas Gbolahan has said that obstetric haemorrhage (Excessive Bleeding after child birth), eclampsia (Seizure), sepsis, obstructed labour and complications of…
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On this year’s World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has called for urgent investment into TB care, lamenting that drastic and abrupt cuts in global health funding threaten to reverse decades of progress to combat…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has for the first time prequalified an Mpox vaccine. The announcement came on the heels of the arrival of the first MVA-BN vaccines to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of the epidemic.…
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Nigeria has recorded a total of 9,478 confirmed cases of Diphtheria. The Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, who made this known in Abuja during the weekly diphtheria surveillance…
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The World Health Organisation has recommended a new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, for the prevention of malaria in children. The recommendation follows advice from the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation and the Malaria…
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The United States Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said to respond effectively to the diphtheria outbreak in Nigeria, it needed to raise an additional $ 3.3 million to support the federal government’s response A crucial part of this support,…
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The World Health Organisation Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, on Monday, said the malaria death rate in Nigeria has fallen by 55 per cent. Moeti said this on Monday, at the launch of the 2022 Nigeria Malaria Report in…
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