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Greta Thunberg, Climate and Environment Activist call For Vaccine Equity
Greta Thunberg, climate and environment activist, joins World Health Organization’s call for vaccine equity Greta Thunberg, the climate and environment activist,...
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Ghana Became The First Country in Africa to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
Today, Ghana became the first country outside India to receive COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped via the COVAX Facility. This is...
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Africa needs timely access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines
Brazzaville – While the development and approval of safe and effective vaccines less than a year after the emergence of COVID-19 is...
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WHO Issues its First Emergency use Validation For a COVID-19 Vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the...
Read moreWHO Launches Year-Long Campaign to Help 100 Million People Quit Tobacco
WHO Launches Year-Long Campaign to Help 100 Million People Quit Tobacco WHO today launches a year-long global campaign for World...
Read moreWHO Appoints co-chairs of Independent Commission on Sexual Misconduct During The Ebola Response in North DRC
AWHO appoints co-chairs of Independent Commission on sexual misconduct during the Ebola response in North Kivu and Ituri, the Democratic...
Read moreWHO to Investigate Allegations of Sexual Exploitation in Ebola Response in the DRC
WHO to investigate allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Geneva...
Read moreWHO Calls for Global Action on Sepsis – Cause of 1 in 5 Deaths Worldwide
The World Health Organization’s first global report on sepsis finds that the effort to tackle millions of deaths and disabilities due to...
Read moreWHO to Roll Out Learning and Monitoring Tools to Improve Service Provision During Pandemic
In WHO global pulse survey, 90% of countries report disruptions to essential health services since COVID-19 pandemic The World Health...
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Ebola Outbreak in Western Democratic Republic of the Congo Reaches 100 cases
Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 100 cases The number of cases in the ongoing Ebola...
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