INDIA – The Serum Institute of India (SII) has announced that it will export 20-30 million doses of Covishield jab to the WHO-backed global platform Covax by the end of…
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WHO sets pace in competency building with health focused academy campus in France
FRANCE – Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, today broke ground for the WHO Academy’s campus in the French city of Lyon.…
Read MoreWHO sounds alarm over improper dementia care despite rising case numbers
SWITZERLAND – More than 55 million people worldwide are living with dementia, a neurological disorder that robs them of their memory and costs the world US$1.3 trillion a year, the…
Read MoreGlobal new cases of COVID-19 on a steady rise as rich countries cling on vast vaccine supplies
SWITZERLAND – The global number of new COVID-19 cases has been increasing for the last two months, as cases of the Delta variant have been reported in 148 countries, territories…
Read MoreWHO calls for halt on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots
SWITZERLAND – The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September, its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced as the…
Read MoreHealthcare access and delivery under siege in areas facing conflict globally
WORLD – The World Health Organization has said more than 700 health care workers and patients were killed, more than 2,000 injured, and hundreds of health facilities destroyed in countries…
Read MoreCentre for disease control and prevention calls for new tact to deal with threatening delta variant
US – The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), believe that the war against COVID-19 has changed because of the highly contagious delta variant. CDC proposed the need for…
Read MoreWHO makes progress in fighting against tobacco epidemic, this is according to a recent report
SWITZERLAND – According to the released World Health Organization (WHO) report, more than four times as many people are now covered by at least one WHO-recommended tobacco control MPOWER measure…
Read MoreGlobal economic recovery dependent on COVID-19 vaccine equity says key global organizations
WOLRD – The global economic recovery is at risk if vaccines are not equitably manufactured, scaled up and distributed, this is according to new data released today by the United…
Read MoreGermany pledges to support WHO’s commitment towards fighting against COVID-19
EUROPE – Following a bilateral meeting held by WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Federal Minister of Health of Germany, Mr. Jens Spahn, Germany has pledged to back…
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