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Nearly 2.4 million Ghanaians could be suffering mental illnesses – WHO
Add a CommentThe 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
Add a CommentThe 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
Add a CommentThe 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
Add a CommentPreliminary 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
Add a CommentExisting 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
Add a CommentOne 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
Add a CommentThe 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
Add a CommentA 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 →
Africa urgently needs 20m second doses of COVID-19 vaccine – WHO
Add a CommentAfrica needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second doses to all who received a first dose within the 8—12-week interval between doses recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). A … Read more →
China blocks WHO team from entering country to study coronavirus origin
Add a CommentThe head of the World Health Organisation has said he is “very disappointed” China has denied its experts access to investigating the origins of coronavirus. A ten-strong team of international scientists and virologists had been due to set off in … Read more →
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