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Apply: Seven new jobs available at WHO and Greenlight Planet

July 17, 2018Ayo Olowo

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Greenlight Planet are taking job applications for the following positions: Field Manager, New Products, and Services at Greenlight Planet, Lagos Qualifications Has prior experience in consumer research/insights, specifically in rural sub-Saharan Africa, and specifically with smallholder farmers, including focus groups, usability studies, and pilot programs that led to scale-up. […]

WHO finally reveals drug to prevent post-childbirth bleeding

June 28, 2018Ayo Olowo

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that a new drug – Carbetocin – has the potential to save thousands of women’s lives in childbirth annually. WHO said Carbetocin now serves as a new competition – with improved benefits – to Oxytocin, a stand-by drug used to prevent potentially-fatal bleeding after childbirth. WHO said excessive […]

WHO deploys 39 staff to combat cholera in Adamawa

May 29, 2018Eben Tanimola

As cholera epidemic continues to ravage some local governments in Adamawa state, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has deployed 39 personnel to assist in combating the menace. They were deployed in Mubi North and Mubi South local government areas to control a recent outbreak of cholera in the state, an official said. Ms Charity Warigon, […]

There are measures in place to curb Ebola spread in Nigeria – WHO

May 20, 2018Ayo Olowo

The World Health Organisation has assured Nigerians that all measures are being put in place to curtail the Ebola virus should it find its way into the country. The WHO country director, Wondi Alemu, at a Health for All walk in Abuja on Saturday said though there is risk that Ebola might resurface again in […]

WHO convenes emergency meeting to consider the risks of Ebola outbreak

May 18, 2018Ayo Olowo

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is convening an emergency meeting on Friday over the latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The emergency meeting is to “consider the international risks” of the deadly Ebola virus disease, which has now moved to an urban area of DRC. One […]

RED ALERT: WHO warns against “Disease X”

March 13, 2018March 13, 2018Ayo Olowo

The World Health Organisation has revealed in a statement, a mysterious “Disease X”, capable of causing a global pandemic in the future. The organisation released a list of diseases it considers posing a high risk to the public due to their potential to spark an epidemic and the limited treatment available to combat them. This […]

CAUTION! About 900m people at risk of hearing loss by 2050 – WHO

March 3, 2018News Agency

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has alerted that some 900 million people could suffer from disabling hearing loss across the world by 2050. WHO said this in a report obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos. The organisation called on relevant institutions, including governments and their partners to stem the […]

UN, WHO kick off World Breastfeeding Week; states health benefits

August 2, 2017Ayo Olowo

The UN on Tuesday kicked off World Breastfeeding Week, stressing that although breastfeeding has cognitive and health benefits for infants and mothers, investment shortcomings impede the practice. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, said: “Breastfeeding gives babies the best possible start in life. “Breastmilk works like a baby’s first vaccine, protecting […]

WHO updates Essential Medicines List, gives advice on use of antibiotics, medicines for hepatitis C, HIV, TB and Cancer

June 7, 2017Ayo Olowo

In a press statement released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, a new advisory on antibiotics for treatment of common infections and which to preserve for the most serious circumstances, was issued. The updated list adds 30 medicines for adults and 25 for children. The list also specifies new uses for nine already-listed […]

After 328 deaths, Nigeria gets 1.3m meningitis vaccines from WHO and UK

April 2, 2017April 2, 2017Ayo Olowo

After about 328 deaths associated with Meningitis, 1.3 million vaccines have arrived from World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Kingdom. The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday by Mrs Boade Akinola, the Director, Media and Public Relations of the ministry. Adewole assured Nigerians that […]