The World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) say 43 countries, including Nigeria, now face outbreaks as increasing numbers of cholera cases are being reported. They said the outcome for patients was worse than 10 years ago. The…
A new report released on Wednesday said that an estimated 13.4 million babies were born preterm in 2020, with nearly 1 million dying from preterm complications. The report was released by United Nations agencies and partners. According to the report …
By Ibiyemi Mathew The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has praised Swiss Pharma (SWIPHA) Nigeria Limited for being the first manufacturer of finished pharmaceutical product to attain prequalification of its product by the World Health Organization (WHO).…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has discovered that one pregnant woman or newborn dies every seven seconds. A report published on Tuesday attributed the increase in maternal and newborn deaths to decreasing investments in the sector. The research on improving…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 6.2 million Nigerian children are zero doses (unvaccinated), a consequence of the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 to 2021. WHO Regional Director for Africa,Dr. Masthidiso Moeti said this in Abuja…
The World Health Organisation (WHO), Acting Emergency Manager in Borno, Dr Samuel Yenyi, has called for a more active role of journalists in controlling disease outbreaks. Yenyi made the call at the closing ceremony of a three-day training workshop for…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a new report on Monday that large numbers of people are affected by infertility in their lifetime. The report said that around 17.5 per cent of the adult population roughly one in six…
The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Thursday updated its tracking system and working definitions for variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. WHO in a statement said that the tracking system would better correspond to the current global variant…
World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday, released a new Global Breast Cancer Initiative Framework, providing a roadmap to attain the targets to save 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040. The UN Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria…
World Health Organisation (WHO) says five billion people globally remain unprotected from harmful trans-fat, increasing their risk of heart disease and death as Nigeria is considering putting trans fat elimination policy in place in 2023. Trans fat, or trans-fatty acids,…
