#World Health Organisation

Members of the World Health Organization adopted an agreement on Tuesday to better prepare for future pandemics following the disjointed global response to COVID-19, but the absence of the U....

Rwanda’s outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus is easing after vaccinations of the most vulnerable people including healthcare workers, but mpox cases are still spreading to new African countries, ...

The World Health Organisation said it received pledges worth $700 million for its 2025-2028 budget at an event in Berlin on Monday, in addition to $300 million already pledged by the European ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is able to raise $600 million to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, the agency’s head said on ...

Cyprus is fully prepared to deal with mpox cases, with sufficient vaccines available for everyone, Dr Elisavet Constantinou, Director of Public Health Services, assured on Saturday. Earlier this week, the ...

Cyprus on Wednesday joined the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s Global Digital Certification Network. In doing so, Cyprus is just the sixth European country to join the network. The health ...

Chief medical officer: with hindsight UK went into lockdown a week late By an uncanny coincidence, news emerged from northern China of a new type of unusual pneumonia last week ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari warned that breastfeeding in Cyprus has declined as she reiterated that the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends exclusively breastfeeding babies. Kanari on Saturday referenced data collected ...

The World Health Organization on Monday recommended that immunocompromised people be given an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine, due to their higher risk of breakthrough infections after standard immunisation. The ...

International agencies including the World Health Organization urged countries on Tuesday to suspend the sale of live wild mammals in food markets, warning they may be the source of more ...

The first modest batches of coronavirus vaccines are expected to go out under the COVAX scheme for poorer countries in the first quarter of this year, the top World Health ...