THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised an alarm as 42 per cent of nurses in Africa reported intentions to emigrate, posing a significant threat to the region’s already strained healthcare workforce. Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Acting WHO Regional Director…
DR Faustine Ndugulile, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) regional director-elect for Africa, has died at the age of 55 while receiving medical treatment in India, Tanzania’s Parliament Speaker Tulia Ackson announced on Wednesday. Plans to repatriate his body are underway,…
THE civil war in Sudan is on the brink of spiraling out of control, the United Nations warned, a year after the start of major fighting in the East African country. At least 16,000 people have died so far, with…
THE UN health agency, World Health organisation (WHO) says the H5NI avian influenza virus has so far shown no signs of adapting to allow human-to-human transmission. So far, one human case has been reported in the United States since the…
IN a significant development in the fight against cholera, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has granted prequalification to Euvichol-S, a new oral cholera vaccine (OCV). Gavi, the vaccine alliance, and UNICEF have welcomed this news, emphasising its crucial role in…
THE year 2023 took an unexpected turn for Dr Matshidiso Moeti, Regional Director for Africa at the World Health Organisation (WHO) when she lost her left eye due to brain tumour. On that day in a bustling street in Johannesburg,…
IN a groundbreaking development hailed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a global first, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has rolled out a revolutionary vaccine targeting meningitis, a deadly disease that has long plagued the continent. WHO Director-General Tedros…
