Tag: World Health Organization

A modified coronavirus vaccine that targets the Omicron variant can be administered as a booster dose to broaden immunity, a ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says over one thousand cases of Monkeypox have been reported in non-endemic countries.

Some prominent infectious disease experts are pushing for faster action from global health authorities to contain a growing monkeypox outbreak ...

Countries should take quick steps to contain the spread of monkeypox and share data about their vaccine stockpiles, a senior ...

World Health Organisation (WHO) members agreed this week to gradually raise their mandatory fees starting from 2024, sources following the ...

Around 99% of the global population breathes air that exceeds World Health Organization's air quality limits, with people in low ...

The Omicron coronavirus variant has been reported in 89 countries and the number of cases is doubling in 1.5 to ...

More women have reported sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers during an Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of ...

African countries need to get equal access to COVID-19 vaccines so they can start rebuilding their devastated tourism industries, Kenya's ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday recommended using arthritis drugs Actemra from Roche and Kevzara from Sanofi with corticosteroids ...

China's Clover Biopharmaceuticals announced on Wednesday an advance purchase agreement to supply up to 414 million doses of its COVID-19 ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is worried about recent developments that the COVID-19 Delta variant that was first ...

Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek Alphabet in a bid to ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasized the need for expanding global healthcare access to counter any future pandemics.

Medics in Guinea were on Friday racing to track down suspected carriers of the Ebola virus, after they fled a ...

The idea of such a treaty, also aimed at ensuring universal and equitable access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for ...

The most mutated variant of the coronavirus yet has been found among travellers from Tanzania. This has prompted scientists to call for ...

The coronavirus is surging “dangerously” across Brazil, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) regional director for the Americas, Carissa Etienne, warned ...

Ghana has become the first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization's COVAX facility.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it wants to see accelerated rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa.