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Only 16% of babies in Ghana receive Hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth – WHO

September 5, 2024 8:13 am Add a Comment

The founder and CEO of Sunyani-based Global Media Foundation (GloMeF), an anti-corruption Non-Governmental Organisation, has expressed worry about low coverage of Hepatitis B Birth Dose (BepB-BD) or vaccination among babies, nationwide. Raphael Godlove Ahenu said statistics from the World Health Organisation … Read more →

WHO declares mpox outbreak a global health emergency

August 15, 2024 8:29 am Add a Comment

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency. WHO convened its emergency mpox committee amid concerns that a deadlier strain of the virus, clade Ib, had reached four previously unaffected provinces in Africa. This strain … Read more →

Nearly 2.4 million Ghanaians could be suffering mental illnesses – WHO

September 25, 2023 12:47 pm Add a Comment

The World Health Organization (WHO) says almost 2.4 million Ghanaians could be suffering from various degrees of mental illness. The organisation believes this calls for enhanced cooperation in the area of infrastructure and technical support to revamp Ghana’s wobbling mental … Read more →

12 African States to get new malaria vaccine – WHO

July 7, 2023 7:58 am Add a Comment

The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners say around 18 million doses of the world’s first malaria vaccine will be delivered to 12 African nations by 2025. Among them are Malawi, Ghana and Kenya, where the Mosquirix vaccine has … Read more →

New variants are likely to emerge – WHO

January 19, 2022 10:35 am Add a Comment

The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, the World Health Organization’s chief said Tuesday, cautioning against a narrative that the Omicron variant is risk-free. ‘This pandemic is nowhere near over,’ chief of the UN health body Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from … Read more →

COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective against Omicron – WHO

December 16, 2021 7:37 am Add a Comment

Preliminary evidence indicates that COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective against infection and transmission linked to the Omicron coronavirus variant, which also carries a higher risk of reinfection, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. The WHO, in its weekly epidemiological update, … Read more →

Covid: Vaccines should work against Omicron variant – WHO

December 8, 2021 8:25 am Add a Comment

Existing vaccines should still protect people who contract the Omicron variant from severe Covid cases, a World Health Organization (WHO) official says. It comes as the first lab tests of the new variant in South Africa suggest it can partially … Read more →

25% Ghanaians could suffer stroke by 2040 – WHO

October 22, 2021 8:00 am Add a Comment

One in four Ghanaians will suffer stroke in the next 10 to 20 years if nothing is done to control the conditions that induce the ailment. Presently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 94,000 people suffer stroke annually in … Read more →

Recent surge in Africa’s COVID-19 cases ‘worrying’ – WHO

June 30, 2021 8:45 am Add a Comment

The World Health Organisation, (WHO) is warning African countries to put in place adequate measures to minimise the causalities that may result from the third wave of COVID-19 infections. A number of African countries have seen a spike in their … Read more →

Covid vaccines running out in poorer nations – WHO

June 22, 2021 9:20 am Add a Comment

A large number of poorer countries receiving Covid-19 vaccines through a global sharing scheme do not have enough doses to continue programmes, the World Health Organization has said. WHO senior adviser Dr Bruce Aylward said the Covax programme had delivered … Read more →