WHO Warns Against Deepened Global Health Crisis
As the world marks Universal Health Coverage Day, December 12th 2025, a stark reality check reveals that over half of the global population remains deprived of essential health services, forcing one in four individuals to make impossible choices between healthcare and basic necessities like food and education. The devastating impact of unaffordable health costs is […]
WHO Urges Wider Use of Weight-Loss Medicines, Labels Obesity Chronic Disease
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for broader use of weight-loss medicines, highlighting that obesity is a chronic disease requiring long-term care. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the new guidance recognises obesity as a complex condition influenced by genetics, biology, environment, and social factors not merely lifestyle choices. Read also: Obesity not a […]
WHO Calls for Stronger Eye Care Systems to Curb Vision Loss in Africa
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged African governments to strengthen eye care services within national health systems, boost investments, and adopt people-centred strategies to combat preventable vision loss and blindness. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Mohamed Janabi, made the call in a statement on Wednesday marking World Sight Day, to be observed globally […]
WHO, UNICEF Partner With Rivers State on Healthcare
Dr. Chituru Adele, Executive Secretary of Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board, led a delegation of directors and international partners from WHO, UNICEF, and NPHCDA on a September 26, advocacy visit to His Royal Majesty, Eze Chike Worlu-Wodu JP, DSSRS, Chairman of Rivers State Council of Chiefs and Traditional Rulers. The meeting between Dr. […]
WHO Updates Essential Medicines Lists Includes Cancer, Diabetes Treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) and Essential Medicines for Children (EMLc), adding several treatments for cancer, diabetes and rare diseases in its 2025 revision. Published on Friday, the new editions mark the 24th update of the EML and the 10th of the EMLc, which are used […]
NAFDAC Retains WHO ML3, Tinubu Congratulates Agency
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) for successfully retaining its World Health Organisation (WHO) Maturity Level 3 (ML3) status for the regulation of medicines and vaccines. NAFDAC was re-evaluated by the WHO between May 28 and May 30, 2025. The WHO’s assessment confirmed that NAFDAC […]
WHO Calls for Urgent Action on Hepatitis and Liver Cancer
On World Hepatitis Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on governments and global partners to accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis and reduce liver cancer deaths. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed that someone dies every 30 seconds from liver disease or liver cancer related to hepatitis, despite available tools for prevention […]
WHO Urges Policymakers, CSOs, Health Workers to Implement Launched Guidelines to Combat Meningitis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged policymakers, academic institutions, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and health workers to implement historic guidelines in tackling meningitis following their launch. The launched guideline, released on Thursday, emphasized building capacity, informing national health plans, and shaping research agendas. Being the first-ever global guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and care […]
NAFDAC Issues Warning on Consumption of Bread
In recent times, social media has been abuzz with warnings from nutrition specialists and bloggers about the dangers of factory-manufactured foods, snacks, and drinks. And rightly so! The alarming rise in diseases like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancers, strokes, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s disease has become a major health challenge in Nigeria. What’s even more […]
Fubara Assures WHO to Priotise Health Sector in 2025 Budget
Governor Siminalayi Fubara told the representatives of the World Health Organisation (WHO) that his administration will focus more on the health sector in the 2025 state budget. The Governor noted this during the visitation of the WHO representative spearheaded by the Country Representative, Dr. Kazadi Walter Molumbo, on Thursday at Government House in Port Harcourt. […]
WHO declares Monkeypox global emergency
WHO DG tests positive for covid-19
