Exclusive breastfeeding is highest in Rwanda
Globally, only 41 per cent of babies were exclusively breastfed in the first six months of life in 2018 but...
Nearly $60 billion needed to eliminate hepatitis – WHO
Ahead of World Hepatitis Day (28 July), the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on countries to take advantage of recent...
Roche’s diagnosis access program expanded to tuberculosis, hepatitis
Roche today announced that its Global Access Program is expanding beyond HIV, to include Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), Hepatitis B and...
There is a new WHO-preferred treatment option for HIV
Based on new evidence assessing benefits and risks, the World Health Organization today officially recommended the use of the HIV...
What is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on 17 July 2019 officially declared the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo a Public Health...
How DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak became a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
On 17 July 2019, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the...
Two Nigerian states move to end open defecation
The governments of Ondo and Ekiti states have taken steps aimed at ending open defecation in their respective states. In...
Gene editing used to eliminate HIV
In a study published July 2 in Nature Communications researchers report a possible new way to eliminate HIV from an infected animal’s genome....
Confusion as implementation of new e-yellow card policy goes into effect
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced its plan to phase out completely, all old versions of Yellow card and...
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