By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – With the tightened Israeli blockade on Gaza now in its second month, top officials of the United Nations have appealed to world leaders to act – firmly, urgently and decisively – to ensure the basic principles of international humanitarian law are upheld. The appeal...
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The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) country office in Russia, Batyr Berdyklychev, has dismissed rumors about a new virus in the country, local media reported Friday. The WHO representative in Moscow has confirmed that the recent suspected cases in Russia were caused by the known bacterial infection...
By HARUNA AHMED, Birnin-Kebbi – A mysterious disease has struck Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero (KSUSTA), claiming the lives of five students. The cause of the disease remains unknown, sparking concerns among students and university officials. According to sources, four students died last week, while another...
The 2024 State of the Nation Report indicates that life expectancy in Nigeria, though improving, remains below the global average at 54.6 years. According to the report, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja, life expectancy for women is 54.9 years, while for...
The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that severe funding cuts – particularly by the United States – are threatening decades of progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), still the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The health agency highlighted that essential prevention, testing and treatment services were collapsing,...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has said in a new report that breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 38 per cent globally by 2050. The findings from a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a specialised branch of WHO, also projected annual deaths from...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, said that every year, an estimated 400,000 children worldwide develop cancer. Ghebreyesus said this on Wednesday during an online media conference on global health issues. According to him, in high-income countries, almost 90 per cent of children survive while in...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing Washington from a number of United Nations bodies, including its Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and setting up a broader review of US funding for the multilateral organization. The executive order said it withdrew Washington from UNHRC and the...
The executive board meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday was set to take on an atmosphere of crisis as it grappled with the consequences of the looming withdrawal of the U.S. Since President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to exit the WHO on his first day...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concern about the implications of the immediate funding pause for HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. The organisation said in a statement that funding for HIV programmes provided access to life-saving therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. The organisation added...
Benue State Government has confirmed the outbreak of rabies virus in Kwande and Gboko Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. Director General (DG), Benue Bureau of Livestock Development and Transboundary Animal Diseases Control, Dr. Aondoakaa Asambe, made the disclosure on Monday in Makurdi. Asambe said the bureau was...
A General Physician, Dr Tunji Akintade, has said Nigeria faces critical health challenges that demand immediate and sustained action to bridge funding gaps amid global aid shrinking. Akintade said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos, while reacting to the withdrawal...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN – The World Health Organization (WHO), has expressed regrets over the announcement that the United States of America intends to withdraw from the Organization. In a statement issued in Geneva on Tuesday, the WHO recalled the crucial role it had been playing in protecting the health...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for 1.5 billion dollars for its 2025 Health Emergency Appeal (HEA) to support life-saving health interventions worldwide. WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, made the call on Thursday in a statement outlining the critical priorities and resources needed to address 42 ongoing health...
The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the risk of avian flu spreading to a wider population remains “low” a day after the United States reported its first human death from bird flu. WHO spokesperson Dr. Margaret Harris told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday that the H5N1...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has said it is expected to diagnose a suspected “Disease X’ which has killed at least 79 people in the Panzi district of Kwango Province. The country’s Director-General of Health, Dr Dieudonné Mwamba, disclosed this during a bi-weekly media briefing hosted by Africa’s...
The Kebbi State Ministry of Health in collaboration with State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA), has inaugurated rollout of malaria vaccination for children from five to 11 months in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme is being launched simultaneously in Bayelsa. NAN...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says nearly 30 million people living with HIV are currently on Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, while nine million others need treatment but are not getting it. The Director-General of the organisation, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, made this known during an online media conference ahead of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The World Health Organization (WHO) Country Representative, Dr. Kazadi Walter, has said the organization has reached around 2 million people, which is about 54.4% of the targeted population, through 58 implementing partners. These partners according to him are spread across 27 locations in Borno,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that the number of adults living with diabetes worldwide has surpassed 830 million, more than quadrupling since 1990. The organisation made this known on Thursday in a statement as the world celebrates World Diabetes Day with theme ” Breaking Barriers, Bridging Gaps”....