As the world marks World Health Day on April 7, the World Health Organization (WHO) turns its attention to the theme of ‘My Health, My Right’. In a world grappling with myriad crises, from diseases to disasters to conflicts and climate change, ensuring every individual’s right to health is more […]

Zika virus is more of concern now by the World Health Organization (WHO). It has issued warning Friday for pregnant women from across the world not to visit Zika affected zones. Last month the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) too warned the same as the virus is […]

World Health Organization (WHO) declares after Monday’s emergency meeting of independent experts the Zika virus outbreak is a global emergency even without getting a definitive evidence it is causing a surge in babies born with brain defects in Brazil. The UN agency called the outbreak as an extraordinary event posing […]

WHO is to start Ebola vaccination in Sierra Leone and about 200 people are to be given the shot. The move comes after the death of a 67-year-old woman on Saturday who got in contact of the virus. The woman from Kambia district died after five days last Ebola patient […]

Three African countries have been selected by WHO to test pilot project in saving the world from malaria. Small children between the age group of 5 and 17 months in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi will be vaccinated four doses a year in 2018. If believed to the WHO regional director […]

The World Health Organization announced Thursday to be launching emergency yellow fever vaccination campaigns in the areas within 75-100 km of the border of Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo as well as in the Congolese capital Kinshasa. More than 300 people have been lately killed in Angola due to […]