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India has halted the production of cough syrup at a factory of Maiden Pharmaceuticals after a WHO report that the medicine may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children in the Gambia.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the launch of a suicide prevention campaign in Africa, a region it says has the highest rate of suicide deaths in the world. "About 11 people per 100,000 die in the African region, which…

The World Health Organisation has urged stakeholders in healthcare delivery to urgently intensify efforts toward reducing medication related harm. According to the global health agency, half of all preventable harm in medical care…

The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Wednesday released six short policy briefs that outline key actions that all governments must take to end COVID-19 pandemic. WHO Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, announced this at a news…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged African countries to ramp up the implementation of a new roadmap, which was launched on Thursday, to curb outbreaks of bacterial meningitis on the continent by 2030. Meningitis is a dangerous…

The Two times winner of World Health Organization (WHO), World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) Award in West Africa and the Founder of the Eye Opener Women and Youth Foundation, Margaret Kwa’ada Julius, has for the first time taken sensitization…

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has appealed to the UN Foundation to seek for ways to tackle the menace of malaria, which he described as the new frontier in disease control and eradication in…

The World Health Organization (WHO) Mission for Health Financing to Nigeria, led by its Technical Officer, Fahdi Dkhimi, declared Support for National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Act2022. This was made known when a delegate of WHO…

The World Health Organisation has urged parents to do more to ensure water safety, warning that children under the age of five are at most risk of drowning. The WHO disclosed this in a statement released on Monday in commemoration of…

The World Health Organisation says millions of refugees and migrants in vulnerable situations, face poorer health outcomes than their host communities, especially where living and working conditions are sub-standard. The global health…