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WHO emergency chief Chikwe Ihekweazu says Ebola outbreak requires coordinated international action after spreading beyond DR Congo into Uganda. The Executive Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has warned that the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached...

WHO identifies promising Ebola drugs and vaccine candidates for trials as DR Congo and Uganda record new cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified three experimental treatments and several vaccine candidates for clinical trials as an outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola continues in the Democratic Republic of...

WHO says conflict in DR Congo is crippling Ebola response as infections outpace containment efforts in affected regions. The World Health Organisation has warned that ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is severely undermining efforts to contain a growing Ebola outbreak in the country’s eastern region. WHO...

WHO says Ebola outbreak in DR Congo may be wider than reported as deaths rise and cases spread across regions. An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 131 people, with health officials warning the virus may be spreading further than recorded figures show. The...

The World Health Organisation says Nigeria is making significant headway in the fight against malaria. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that Nigeria was making significant headway in the fight against malaria, citing a steady decline in infection rates and improved access to prevention and treatment services across the...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has, again, called on China to be ‘transparent’ in sharing COVID-19 data in efforts to determine the disease’s origins. WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, made the appeal on Friday at the UN health agency headquarters in Geneva. Speaking at a media briefing, Ghebreyesus noted that the...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it plans to transform the future of public health by targeting three billion people by 2023. Dr Mie Okamura of the Emergency Preparedness and Response, WHO, said this in Abuja on Saturday during the “Walk The Talk’’ peace awareness exercise. Okamura said the WHO...