The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it has given the green light to the first in vitro diagnosis (IVD) for Mpox, which should make it possible to combat the epidemic more effectively, according to a WHO statement issued on Friday. According to official figures, the disease has already caused the deaths of around 900 people in Africa...
Mozambique can now export medicines anywhere in the world, with the World Health Organization (WHO) awarding pre-qualification for international production to the National Medicines Factory. According to Notícias, the National Medicines Factory, which produces more than a billion doses a year, has just received a...
The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that he was considering convening a committee of experts to determine whether the Mpox epidemic, also known as "monkeypox", should be declared an international emergency in several African countries. "I am considering convening an emergency committee on international health regulations to advise...
Worldwide, 1,700 people lose their lives every week due to Covid-19, according to figures revealed this Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO). The director-general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is calling on the population at risk to get vaccinated against the disease. According to the international press, despite the number of deaths,...
Almost a third (31%) of the world's adults, approximately 1.8 billion people, did not meet recommended levels of physical activity in 2022, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which warns of harmful effects. The data, published in the journal The Lancet Global Health, shows an increase of around five percentage points between 2010...
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday (20.04) approved a simplified version of an oral vaccine against cholera. The vaccine should make it possible to increase the total production of these serums in response to the explosion in the number of cases worldwide. The Euvichol-S vaccine is a simplified formulation of Euvichol-Plus, with fewer components, which should...
The director of the World Health Organization (WHO) argued today at the World Government Summit in Dubai that a global treaty on pandemics, which is still being negotiated, "does not give the WHO any sovereign power over any country". Quoted by Notícias ao Minuto, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained that the pandemic treaty faces two obstacles...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that in January there was a "serious increase in cholera cases" in ten countries in eastern and southern Africa, including Mozambique, and warned of the risk of an epidemic. The most affected countries are Zambia and Zimbabwe, while Mozambique, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
A few days ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the use in children of a second vaccine against malaria, a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. "I am very pleased to announce that the WHO is recommending a second vaccine called R21/Matrix-M to prevent malaria in children at risk of contracting the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned two years ago of the resurgence of cholera outbreaks and that so far there are 24 countries with active outbreaks, some of which are experiencing a serious crisis. Although the data available to the WHO is insufficient, the cases reported in 2022 have doubled those of 2021, and the...