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Malawi to pilot groundbreaking malaria vaccine
Although the potential vaccine will not give full protection against the mosquito-borne disease, it is the furthest along in development and so far the most effective.
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Nearly 1,000 Madagascar children dead of measles since October - WHO
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease that can cause complications including blindness and brain swelling and increase susceptibility to other diseases.
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China could lift life expectancy if it meets WHO smog standards - study
China has vowed to determine the precise impact of air and water pollution on health as part of its efforts to raise average life expectancy to 79 years by 2030 from 76.3 years in 2015.
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WHO looks at standards in 'uncharted water' of gene editing
The Chinese government last Thursday ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the editing of human genes, after a Chinese scientist said he had edited the genes of twin babies.
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WHO sees Congo's Ebola outbreak lasting 3-4 months at least
The most concerning area is the city of Beni in Congo’s North Kivu province where dozens of people who may have been exposed to the deadly disease are hiding from health workers.
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WHO: Congo Ebola outbreak could worsen rapidly
At least 100 people have died in the outbreak, out of 150 cases in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
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WHO seeks access to Syrians dying from heat, disease in south
Three out of four public hospitals and health centres in Deraa and Quneitra are closed or only partially functioning.
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WHO says 19 dead, 39 infected so far in Congo Ebola outbreak
The world health body says the current outbreak in the DRC does not meet the criteria for declaring a 'public health event of international concern'.
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Table Mountain goes red for TB awareness
Table Mountain will be lit red in WHO’s global initiative with Stop TB partnership to light-up several landmarks across the world on TB day.
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CT sees 24% drop in TB
JP Smith says while the number of cases has decreased from almost 30,000 in 2010 to under 23,000 in 2018 - it's still alarmingly high.
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Health Dept to oversee incineration of listeria-linked products
South Africa is in the grips of what the World Health Organization describes as the worst listeria outbreak in recorded history.
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Give women more time to give birth, make choices: WHO
Among 26 new recommendations, it rejected a traditional benchmark in labour wards worldwide for the dilation of a woman’s cervix at the rate of 1 centimeter per hour.
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Health Dept, WHO discuss ways to fight spread of listeriosis
Listeriosis is a food-borne disease which can be found in soil, water and vegetation.
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WHO fears complacency as progress against malaria stalls
Malaria infected around 216 million people in 91 countries in 2016, an increase of 5 million cases over the previous year, the WHO said in its annual World Malaria Report.
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WHO: Plague kills 94 in Madagascar
The outbreak already looks big when compared with the 3,248 cases and 584 deaths reported worldwide from 2010 to 2015.
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Plague outbreak in Madagascar kills 20 – WHO
Humans bitten by an infected flea usually develop a bubonic form of plague, which swells lymph nodes and can be treated with antibiotics.
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Over 500 dead as Congo cholera epidemic spreads: WHO
This year’s epidemic is particularly worrying as it comes as about 1.4 million people have been displaced by violence in the central Kasai region.
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WHO: Tobacco industry blocking anti-smoking moves
Tobacco companies use domestic and international trade litigation ‘in attempts to block progress on many control measures’, the WHO said.
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WHO warns of imminent spread of untreatable superbug gonorrhoea
The WHO estimates 78 million people a year get gonorrhoea, an STD that can infect the genitals, rectum and throat.
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WHO: At least 100,000 cholera cases reported in Yemen
Cholera broke out in Yemen on 27 April and has seen at least 789 deaths.
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Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom becomes first African to head WHO
The former health minister received more than half of the votes in the first round.
