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The restricted approach by the World Health Organization (WHO) in dealing with the misconduct of its staffers during an Ebola outbreak in Congo has been dismissed as “an absurdity”, two experts appointed by the UN agency to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women in the African country. In October 2020, Aichatou […]
Three trial vaccines for Ebola will arrive in Uganda next week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced during the G20 meeting in Indonesia, in an effort to stem the outbreak of the deadly disease that was declared in late September and that has since then claimed at least 55 deaths. “Today I’m pleased to announce […]
India has halted all production at Maiden Pharmaceuticals’ main factory near New Delhi after a WHO report that the company’s cough syrups exported to the Gambia may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children there. The recent incident which has claimed the lives of 69 children, according to WHO, has come as a […]
The controversial Beijing-funded African Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that is due to open in the next few months is just one example of China’s increasing investment in health care on the African continent since the pandemic as it builds what analysts and Beijing call a ‘Health Silk Road’. According to […]
UNICEF has condemned an air strike by Ethiopian forces in the Tigray region which locals say hit a kindergarten called Red Kids Paradise, killing four people including two children, a claim that was denied by the federal government. The federal government denied the allegations saying the air force only targeted military sites and accused Tigray […]
African health ministers attending the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 72nd Regional Committee for Africa — a top annual health gathering in the region — in Togo’s capital Lome have approved an eight-year strategy aimed at curbing disease and responding quickly to health emergencies. After a week of discussions about some of Africa’s most pressing health […]
Morocco was elected to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the period 2022-2025, as representative of the group of Eastern Mediterranean States (EMR), during the 75th World Health Assembly, held in Geneva May 22 to 28. Candidate for one of the two vacant seats for the EMR region, Morocco has been […]
Morocco is among the group of 50 countries which committed to develop a climate-resilient and low-carbon health system at the UN Climate Change Conference currently held in Glasgow (COP26). Forty-five of these countries, including some of those most vulnerable to the health harms caused by climate change as well as some of the world’s biggest […]
Morocco has already reached the global covid vaccination target set in May by the World Health Organization in order to protect 10 pc of the most vulnerable of each country’s population against coronavirus by the end of September. Morocco has administered at least 34,160,942 doses of COVID vaccines so far. The number of people […]
Will Africans be able to travel to Europe this summer? For now, at least, most of them still cannot travel to France and most EU countries, despite the reopening of borders. Only vaccines already approved by the European Medicines Agency are currently accepted on the “health pass” of the 27. The Covishield vaccine is […]