30 September 2015, Geneva - Anyone infected with HIV should begin antiretroviral treatment as soon after diagnosis as possible, WHO announced Wednesday. With its "treat-all" recommendation, WHO removes all limitatio…
Read moreNew York, 25 September 2015 | The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Margaret Chan announced the removal of Nigeria, the then only remaining endemic country in the African Region, from the list …
Read more25 september 2015 - WHO announced today that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria. This is the first time that Nigeria has interrupted transmission of wild poliovirus, bringing the country and the African regi…
Read moreCountries in the WHO African Region have made meaningful progress towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) but this is insufficient to reach the MDG targets. Much more needs to be done to sustain the gai…
Read more17 September 2015 - Malaria death rates have plunged by 60% since 2000, translating into 6.2 million lives saved, the vast majority of them children, according to a joint WHO-UNICEF report released today. The report – “…
Read more9 September 2015 - Child mortality rates have plummeted to less than half of what they were in 1990, according to a new report released today. Under-five deaths have dropped from 12.7 million per year in 1990 to 5.9…
Read moreBamako, 7 September 2015 – A case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) has been confirmed in Bamako, the capital and largest city of Mali. The country is on high alert after national authorities…
Read moreToday, 3 September 2015, WHO declares Liberia free of Ebola virus transmission in the human population. Forty-two days have passed since the second negative test on 22 July 2015 of the last laboratory-confirmed case. Lib…
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