Pretoria – Lawrence Tebogo Matheatau, a 28-year-old bogus doctor, will spend another seven days behind bars following the decision by the Klerksdorp Magistrate's Court to remind him in custody after he was arrested for fraud on Monday. Matheatau allegedly approached a medical doctor who owns…
Members: Dr Fernando Althabe Director, Department of Maternal and Child Health Research, Institute of Clinical and Health Policy Effectiveness, Buenos Aires, Argentina Dr Kalpana Baruah Joint Director, National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India…
1 February, 2016: The World Health Organization is calling on governments to rate movies that portray tobacco use in a bid to prevent children and adolescents from starting to smoke cigarettes and use other forms of tobacco. Movies showing use of tobacco products have enticed…
Geneva 28 January 2016--WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan, will convene an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Zika virus and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations. The Committee will meet on Monday 1 February in Geneva to ascertain whether the outbreak constitutes a Public…
27 January 2016 – As Libya’s yearlong peace talks aimed at establishing a unity government stall again, the lives of millions of people needing urgent health care linger in the balance. WHO and health partners require a total of US$ 50 million in 2016 to…
Following recent news of four cases of typhoid in Johannesburg, many people are wondering how to safeguard themselves. While there is no current concern for spread, ER24 urges people to familiarise themselves with how a person develops the illness and how it affects a person.…
15 January 2016—A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, reflecting the ongoing risk of new flare-ups of the virus in affected countries. The Sierra Leone government acted rapidly to respond to this new case. Through the country’s new emergency operations centre,…
The global supply of oral cholera vaccines is set to double after WHO approved a third producer, helping to address global shortages and expand access in more countries. Globally, OCV production is low, with demands currently exceeding supply. Sudan and Haiti last year made requests…
GENEVA - A new framework to eliminate human rabies and save tens of thousands of lives each year has been launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)…
8 DECEMBER 2015 | GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an assessment of the challenges for the next 15 years. Health in 2015: from MDGs to SDGs identifies the key drivers…