World Health Organization – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com Breaking News, Nigeria News and Top Stories Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:32:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cropped-The-InfoStride-Favicon-150x150.png World Health Organization – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com 32 32 WHO, others solicits for increased funding for Nigeria’s health sector https://www.theinfostride.com/who-others-solicits-for-increased-funding-for-nigerias-health-sector/ https://www.theinfostride.com/who-others-solicits-for-increased-funding-for-nigerias-health-sector/#respond Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:32:57 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=295019 The World Health Organization (WHO), Pharm Access Foundation, and other health sector stakeholders have joined voices to solicit for increased funding and financial risk protection for the health sector in Nigeria. The call was made at the ‘Fourth Annual Legislative Summit on Health’ held in Abuja recently with legislators, government officeholders and health organizations, both [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/who-others-solicits-for-increased-funding-for-nigerias-health-sector/feed/ 0 Smoking Causes Damages To The Lungs, May Result In Severe COVID-19, Says WHO https://www.theinfostride.com/smoking-causes-damages-to-the-lungs-may-result-in-severe-covid-19-says-who/ https://www.theinfostride.com/smoking-causes-damages-to-the-lungs-may-result-in-severe-covid-19-says-who/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:53:28 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=272127 The World Health Organization (WHO) has today hinted the public on the dangers of smoking especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO stated that smoking causes damage to the lungs and other parts of the body which makes smokers more liable to coronavirus infection. According to WHO it’s high time smokers quit smoking inorder to enjoy [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/smoking-causes-damages-to-the-lungs-may-result-in-severe-covid-19-says-who/feed/ 0 World Health Organization Gives Safety Tips On Global Hand Washing Day https://www.theinfostride.com/global-hand-washing-day-who-gives-tips/ https://www.theinfostride.com/global-hand-washing-day-who-gives-tips/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:05:45 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=271229 In commemoration of the Global Hand Washing Day, the World Health Organization has outlined guidelines for safe washing of hands. The World Health Organization has on thursday October 15, which marks the Global Hand Washing Day, prescribed the use of alcohol based hand-rub to scrub the hands for a minimum period of 20 seconds and [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/global-hand-washing-day-who-gives-tips/feed/ 0 Global Risk Of China Virus is High, Not Moderate – WHO https://www.theinfostride.com/global-risk-of-china-virus-is-high-not-moderate-who/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 07:36:01 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=246188 The World Health Organization has said the global risk from the deadly virus in China is high, accepting a mistake in its previous reports which revealed that it was moderate. According to the health body, the risk of the outbreak is very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global [...]

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]]> Toyin Saraki welcomes new World Health Organization ‘State of Health in Africa’ Report https://www.theinfostride.com/toyin-saraki-welcomes-new-world-health-organization-state-of-health-in-africa-report/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:27:37 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=214647 Dakar, Senegal – 29th August 2018: Toyin Saraki welcomes new World Health Organization ‘State of Health in Africa’ report; calls for sustainable improvements towards universal health coverage Her Excellency Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki, Special Adviser to the Independent Advisory Group of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa, has welcomed the launch of [...]

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]]> H.E Mrs Toyin Ojora-Saraki named as Special Advisor to the World Health Organization https://www.theinfostride.com/h-e-mrs-toyin-ojora-saraki-named-as-special-advisor-to-the-world-health-organization/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:39:48 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=202860 H.E Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki has been named as special advisor to the Independent Advisory Group (IAG) of WHO AFRO, the World Health Organization’s presence in Africa. The appointment was made earlier this month by Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, in a move intended to bring Mrs Saraki’s considerable frontline experience to [...]

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]]> WHO Updates Guidelines On Antibiotics, HIV https://www.theinfostride.com/who-updates-guidelines-on-antibiotics-hiv/ Sun, 18 Jun 2017 22:24:34 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=168857 The World Health Organization (NAN) has released new advice on which antibiotics to use for common infections and which to preserve for the most serious circumstances. The advice is among the additions to the WHO Model list of essential medicines for 2017, which includes medicines for HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and leukaemia. The updated list [...]

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]]> Toyin Saraki Urges Activation Of Basic Healthcare Provision Fund To Fast-track The Improvement Of Reproductive Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health Indices In Nigeria https://www.theinfostride.com/toyin-saraki-urges-activation-of-basic-healthcare-provision-fund-to-fast-track-the-improvement-of-reproductive-maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-health-indices-in-nigeria/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:36:38 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=154173 Nigeria Primary Healthcare Revitalisation: Toyin Saraki Urges Activation Of Basic Healthcare Provision Fund To Fast-track The Improvement Of Reproductive Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health Indices In Nigeria. This was released on Thursday 19 January 2017, Abuja, Nigeria.  Last Thursday, Mrs. Toyin Saraki chaired the first meeting of the Contact Group of the Primary Healthcare (PHC) Revitalisation [...]

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]]> Guinea Finally Declared Free From Ebola https://www.theinfostride.com/guinea-finally-declared-free-from-ebola/ Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:23:08 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=115801 West African nation of Guinea has been declared Ebola free after more than 2,500 people died from the virus, leaving Liberia the only country still counting down for an end to the ruinous epidemic. People in the capital, Conakry, on Tuesday greeted the declaration by authorities and the UN World Health Organization with mixed emotions [...]

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]]> AIDS Infections are dropping in Africa https://www.theinfostride.com/aids-infections-are-dropping-in-africa/ Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:46:15 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=109948 The African continent is the only region to have recorded a consistent drop in new HIV infections since 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Speaking to Al Jazeera on World AIDS Day on Tuesday, Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa, said the continent continued to make remarkable strides in ending the AIDS [...]

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]]> Can the HIV be eradicated by 2030? https://www.theinfostride.com/can-the-hiv-be-eradicated-by-2030/ Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:38:35 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=109946 In a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the eve of World AIDS Day on December 1, the global health body claimed the world was poised to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. According to the stats released by WHO, the number of HIV deaths had reduced by 42 percent – from [...]

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]]> WHO Regional Committee for Africa holds Annual Meeting in N’djamena, Chad https://www.theinfostride.com/who-regional-committee-for-africa-holds-annual-meeting-in-ndjamena-chad/ Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:27:58 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=108841 The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa has commenced the 65th session of her Annual General Meeting in N’djamena, Chad. The meeting which was scheduled to hold from 23rd to 27th of November 2015 is aimed at soliciting for fresh commitment to the provision of appropriate responses to the many health challenges facing [...]

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]]> New Ebola case emerged in Liberia https://www.theinfostride.com/new-ebola-case-emerged-in-liberia/ Sat, 21 Nov 2015 14:13:37 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=107969 A new case of Ebola has been identified in Liberia, a country declared free of the deadly disease in September, health officials have said. The patient, a 10-year-old boy in Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia, felt sick on November 14 and was hospitalised three days later, Bruce Aylward, the head of the [...]

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]]> Sierra Leone is Ebola free but a Legacy of Fear remains – Al Jazeera https://www.theinfostride.com/sierra-leone-is-ebola-free-but-a-legacy-of-fear-remains-al-jazeera/ Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:13:19 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=106695 Twenty-nine-year-old Song strolls through the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, as loud music blares out from the stalls of street vendors. “The war is over,” he says. “We’ve been liberated.” After 42 days with no new cases, the World Health Organization on Saturday officially declared Sierra Leone free from Ebola. “This time last year [...]

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]]> How Traditional Healers helped defeat Ebola in Sierra Leone https://www.theinfostride.com/how-traditional-healers-helped-defeat-ebola-in-sierra-leone/ Fri, 06 Nov 2015 07:51:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=105750 Freetown, Sierra Leone – A year and a half after the Ebola outbreak began there is at last good news for Sierra Leone. On Saturday it is expected the country will reach 42 days since the last recorded case, meaning it will be officially declared Ebola free. Many of the almost 4,000 Sierra Leoneans killed [...]

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]]> World Health Organization Set To Declare Nigeria Polio Free https://www.theinfostride.com/world-health-organization-set-to-declare-nigeria-polio-free/ Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:05:24 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=103380 The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to formally pronounce the delisting of Nigeria as a polio endemic country. The event, which is slated for the State House, Abuja, on October 26 will see the country hosting the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, who will be represented by WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. [...]

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