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Morocco and the World Health Organization (WHO) sealed a cooperation strategy for the period 2023-2027. This strategy outlines the directions of WHO’s technical support in strengthening the health sector in Morocco, and consolidating bilateral collaboration to improve the health and well-being of Moroccan citizens. The strategy, developed by WHO and the Ministry of Health and […]
A pilot project, allowing women to give themselves contraceptive injections, was successfully carried out in Morocco, announced on Thursday the World Health Organization. The project seeks to expand contraceptive options available for women, reduce the risks associated with unintended pregnancies and encourage the use of self-care in reproductive health. It was conducted during the COVID-19 […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Monday two of its staff kidnapped in Mali, early March, have been freed, without providing more details. “The two ICRC collaborators kidnapped on March 4 between (the cities of) Gao and Kidal (north) were released this (Sunday) evening”, announced the Malian branch of the ICRC on […]
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 […]