The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new Global Breast Cancer Initiative Framework providing a roadmap to attain the targets to save 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040.The new Framework launched ahead of the World Cancer Day cam…
Continue ReadingA World Health Organization doctor abducted in Mali has been freed, authorities told Agence France-Presse on Saturday.”Diawara Mahamadou, a WHO support doctor with the regional health directorate in Menaka, was released on February 2,” said a health of…
Continue ReadingTwelve African countries on Wednesday spelled out plans for ending AIDS in children by 2030 through an array of HIV testing, treatment and prevention programs.The 2030 goal, which was announced by UNAIDS last year, was unanimously backed by representat…
Continue ReadingOUAGADOUGOU— At least 28 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in two separate gunmen attacks on Sunday and Monday in Burkina Faso, a regional governor and the army have revealed.Fifteen civilians were killed on Sunday by unidentified a…
Continue ReadingGENEVA— The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the COVID-19 pandemic still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the WHO’s highest alert level.The announcement came amid the recent increase of weekly reported de…
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