The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have launched a $518 million joint response plan to contain the Ebola outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and neighbouring countries. The coordinated plan, announced on Friday, will run from June to November and is aimed…
By Ayomide Otitoju A correction has been issued to an earlier statement regarding the launch of a global One Health initiative. It now clarifies that the World Health Organization plans to establish a Global Network of One Health Institutions to support the objectives of the One Health Joint Plan of Action, with invitations extended to…
By Ayomide Otitoju UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and partners, in collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry of Health, have launched an integrated catch-up campaign aimed at restoring routine immunization, nutrition, and growth monitoring services to 44,000 children cut off from…
By Ayomide Otitoju The World Health Organization (WHO), the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) have unveiled groundbreaking guidelines aimed at transforming how postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) — the leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide — is prevented, diagnosed, and treated. Released on Sunday at the 2025 FIGO…
By Ayomide Otitoju The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union (EU) have renewed their collaboration on universal health coverage (UHC) with the launch of Phase V (2025–2028) of the UHC Partnership, WHO’s largest platform for strengthening health systems and advancing primary health care. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the 80th…
By Ayomide Otitoju The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have issued a joint report warning of growing health challenges caused by extreme heat, particularly for workers in vulnerable sectors. The report, Climate Change and Workplace Heat Stress, highlights five decades of research showing how rising temperatures are severely undermining health…
By Ayomide Otitoju The World Health Organization (WHO), Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) have announced the expansion of the Health Security Partnership to Strengthen Disease Surveillance in Africa (HSPA) to include Rwanda, bringing the total number of participating countries to seven. Originally launched in 2023,…
By Ayomide Otitoju The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) Commission have reaffirmed their strategic alliance with the signing of a renewed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva. The updated agreement strengthens joint efforts to promote health security, universal health coverage, and sustainable…
By Ayomide Otitoju In a major boost for local health innovation in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) have announced a sublicensing agreement with Nigerian health tech firm, Codix Bio, to begin the local production of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) using technology from global diagnostics giant, SD Biosensor. The…