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Since last September, cases have surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to a strain of the virus which has recently been detected in nearby African countries.
At least 61 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli bombardment as Israel was preparing to send negotiators to new truce talks in Qatar.
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Israel has also been accused of using starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinians caught in the middle of the war.
OPINION: The World Health Organisation for Occupied Palestinian Territories office has confirmed that more than half of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip are closed, writes Dr Aayesha Soni.
For 13 days Israel has launched relentless air strikes on the Palestinian territory in retaliation for cross-border Hamas raids that killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians who were shot, mutilated or burnt to death.
This is African Vaccination Week, and the NICD said it was never too late for parents to take their children to the nearest clinic and get vaccinated.
Ghebreyesus is known for his leadership of several international health initiatives that have ensured the foregrounding of critical health concerns on global development agendas.
The hub was established during the Covid-19 pandemic to help poorer countries that struggle to access life-saving medication.
Discovering the origins of COVID-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organization said, in the clearest indication yet that the U. N. body remains committed to finding how the virus arose.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on his first visit to rebel-held areas of war-ravaged Syria, urges the international community ‘to dig deep’ to help the earthquake-hit nation to recover and rebuild.
Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye - Rescuers pulled a two-month-old baby and an elderly woman from the rubble on Saturday, five days after an earthquake devastated Türkiye and Syria leaving more than 28,000 dead. But security concerns led some aid operations to be suspended, and at least 48 people have been arrested for looting or trying to defraud victims in the aftermath of the quake.
Since Covid-19 virus mutations began to appear, the Chinese government has released 10 versions of Covid-19 diagnosis and treatment guidelines and optimised measures to respond to the epidemic in light of the evolving situation.
WHO is calling on governments to speed up vaccination as one-third of the world's population remains unvaccinated.
Ethiopia’s government has described as “unethical” the statement by the World Health Organization’s director-general that the crisis in the country’s Tigray region is “the worst disaster on Earth”.
The Africa CDC has welcomed the decision by the WHO but added that the continent has battled the virus before.
Around 65 countries in which monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease as confirmed cases cross 15,600.
The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization's highest level of alert, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday.
The NICD said there have been no secondary monkeypox cases linked to the two confirmed cases reported late last month.
The sub-variant was first reported in India, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it will convene an emergency meeting after more than 6 000 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in 58 countries
The facility in Rwanda's capital city Kigali will be based on BioNTainer concept, exact replications of the BioNTech factory in Marburg, Germany.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says they are working with its global partners on changing the name of the monkeypox virus.
Mohamed Hoosen Suleman was one of only three medical students globally for the Changemaker Scholarship to attend the Youth Pre-World Health Assembly and the World Health Assembly.
The UK leads in the number of confirmed infections and suspected cases of monkeypox globally.