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Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | More than one million children in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi have received one or extra doses of the world’s first malaria vaccine as efforts to eradicate the disease in the continent gathers steam, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday ahead of World Malaria Day …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Virus Research Institute has started a study to investigate why the country and some of its neighbors are reporting low COVID-19 cases. The study is expected to last four years and will look at what contribution the different COVID-19 variants have played in the …

Experts say true infections on the continent are 97 times larger than reported confirmed cases | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 65% of Africans have been infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, a World Health Organisation (WHO) analysis finds. The study finds that true infections on the continent …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 500 million, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO). Globally, as of 8:36 p.m. CEST (1836 GMT) on Thursday, there have been 500,186,525 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 6,190,349 deaths, reported to WHO, according …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | As the number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths continues to decline, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the pandemic remains a public health emergency, advising countries to be prepared to scale up COVID-19 response rapidly. “On COVID-19, there’s good news. Last week, …

  See how bad Kampala air is compared to other cities around the world in new report Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Air pollution is now considered to be the world’s largest environmental health threat, accounting for seven million deaths around the world every year. Air pollution causes and …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | On the occasion of the World Health Day which falls on April 7, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on all governments to take concrete actions to mitigate the climate crisis for the health of our planet and the health of humans. The theme for this …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 15.9 million Ugandans could have been infected with COVID-19, this is according to a study published by the World Health Organization-WHO. According to the findings of the study that were presented on Thursday during a weekly meeting, the number of COVID-19 cases that were reported …

Air pollution is one of the biggest environmental threats to human health, alongside climate change Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | While the World Health Organization-WHO warns of catastrophic health consequences arising from the fact that more than 90% of the people across the globe are breathing in bad air, it …

Every 14 seconds, a person dies from air pollution in the Western Pacific Manila, Philippines | Xinhua | Around 3.5 million people in the Western Pacific die each year as a result of environmental causes, according to World Health Organization (WHO) data released on Thursday. In a virtual press conference, Takeshi …