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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a campaign to support millions of tobacco users who are actively taking steps to save their lives but still need help to succeed. WHO, stated in a statement on Friday, that the campaign…

The coronavirus variant first detected in India has now been officially recorded in 53 territories, a World Health Organization (WHO) report shows. Additionally, the WHO has received information from unofficial sources that the B.1.617…

The world is “at war” against COVID-19, the UN chief says, calling for the application of wartime logic to the inequitable access to the weapons needed to fight the pandemic. Addressing the opening of the World Health Organization’s…

Malawi on Wednesday destroyed 19,610 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines that expired 18 days after arriving, despite assurances from the African Union (AU) and World Health Organisation (WHO) that the vaccines were safe until mid-July.…

The World Health Organisation  (WHO) said, the COVID-19 variant first identified in the country last year was being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily. The Health…

The World Health Organisation (WHO), said South Africa B.1.617 variant has hits other African countries. The WHO Regional Virologist, Dr Nicksy Gumede-Moeletsi, said in an interview that the strain presented the same symptoms such as…

The World Health Organization (WHO) said about 16.6 million children in Africa missed planned supplemental measles vaccine doses between January 2020 and April 2021 due COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for…

The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, on Friday, cleared the allegation of vaccine mismanagement in Lagos State. He disclosed this in Abuja at a joint press conference organised by…

Medics in Guinea tracked down suspected carriers of the Ebola virus, after they fled in southeastern town where the country's first case in nearly a month was detected. A health agency spokesman said on Friday, resetting a count that had…

Libya's Minister of Health of the new Government of National Unity, Ali Zanati, has met with the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Libya, Elizabeth Hoff, and discussed providing anti-COVID-19 vaccines to Libya. "The meeting…