Health
African Region Nearing A 35% TB Death Reduction – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has spoken in superlative terms about the accelerated action of Africa to end Tuberculosis in the Region. The United Nations Agency...
Water-Related Threats: UNICEF Demands Urgent Action For 78 Million Children In Nigeria
Seventy Eight Million children in Nigeria are at the highest risk from a convergence of three water-related threats – inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH);...
Moody’s retains ‘negative’ outlook on China’s banks amid challenges of emerging from Covid-zero
Ratings agency Moody’s said it maintained a “negative” outlook on China’s banking sector as a result of a drawn out recovery after Beijing’s Covid controls...
Nigeria among 55 countries battling serious health workers shortage-WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Nigeria and 54 other countries are among nations listed in its on its Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List 2023. The WHO...
‘Profiteering’ of Covid pandemic must never be repeated, world figures warn
200 signatories to an open letter have called on world leaders to “never again” allow “profiteering and nationalism” to come before the needs of humanity, in the...
Taliban launches annual polio vaccination drive in Afghanistan
The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has launched the annual polio inoculation campaign aimed at reaching more than nine million children under the age of five, the...
South African court orders healthcare workers to end strike
The South African Labour Appeal Court has ordered striking state healthcare workers to end a weeklong walkout that has affected services in some of the country’s big...
