THE Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, has urged member states to stay committed to shared global health goals in spite of ongoing global instability. Ghebreyesus made the call at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA)…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) opened its Annual Assembly in Geneva on Monday, with a key focus on the formal adoption of a long-anticipated ‘International Pandemic Treaty’. Developed at record speed in response to lessons learned from the COVID-19…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of slowing global health progress, stating that the “world is failing its health check-up”. In its World Health Statistics Report 2025, published on Thursday, WHO highlighted deep health impacts from the COVID-19…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged the United States to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the global health body. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus responded on Monday to US President Donald Trump’s executive order, rejecting claims that the agency had…
THE United States will no longer be part of the World Health Organisation following its withdrawal from the UN body set to take place in January 2026. The United Nations also confirmed that the UN body has received an…
THE African Union (AU) has urged the United States to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The appeal comes in response to an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump formalising the country’s departure from…
HEALTH experts and stakeholders in Nigeria have warned that the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organisation (WHO) could significantly affect Nigeria’s health sector and global health security. The stakeholders spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
AFRICA has reported 14,669 lab-confirmed Mpox cases and 55 deaths in 2024, according to Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa. Moeti in a statement on Tuesday said despite the ongoing global threat posed by the disease, which…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO), has called for urgent action to fully eradicate polio in Nigeria, inspite of the significant 58 per cent reduction in poliovirus type 2 cases between 2023 and 2024. Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, the WHO Representative…
NIGERIA has received 846,000 doses of a ground breaking malaria vaccine from development partners to reduce the country’s high incidence of the disease, especially among children and other vulnerable groups. Prof. Muhammad Pate, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social…
