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Funding cuts jeopardise global fight against tuberculosis – WHO
The UN World Health Organisation has warned that severe funding cuts – particularly by the United States – are threatening decades of ...40 people diagnosed with cancer every minute globally – WHO
Tedros Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), says every minute, 40 people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer. Ghebreyesus spoke on ...Trump signs order to pull US from WHO
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organisation, a body ...WHO declares mpox public health emergency of international concern
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared mpox a “public health emergency of international concern”. The declaration comes a day after the ...COVID-19 still kills 1,700 persons a week – WHO
COVID-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world, the World Health Organization said Thursday, as it urged at-risk ...WHO announces global cholera resurgence, says 194,897 cases recorded in five months
The World Health Organisation says there has been a resurgence of cholera worldwide. In a statement on Thursday, the WHO said in ...WHO confirms first fatal case of human H5N2 bird flu in Mexico
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Mexico has reported the first-ever laboratory-confirmed human case of the H5N2 avian influenza (bird flu). Bird ...Nigeria first country to roll out new meningitis vaccine – WHO
Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out a new meningitis vaccine (called Men5CV) recommended by the World ...WHO ‘monitoring’ new COVID variant detected in three countries
The World Health Organisation says it is closely monitoring BA.2.86, a new variant of COVID-19, detected in Israel, Denmark and the United ...WHO to declare sweetener used in Diet Coke a possible carcinogen – Report
The International Agency for Research on Cancer is set to declare aspartame, one of the most common artificial sweeteners, a possible carcinogen. ...
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