The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) can raise $600 million to fight the surging mpox outbreak on the continent, the agency’s head said on Thursday. “If you w...

With the support of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), the World Health Organisation (WHO) has published a global framework to help Member States comprehensively ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked manufacturers of mpox in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) to submit an expression of interest for Emergency Use Listing (EUL). WHO has been in ongoing discussions...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), having concurred with the advice offered by the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR or Regulations) Emergency Committee regarding ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countr...

Africa’s public health agency is set to declare an mpox emergency as early as next week, saying the viral infection’s rate of spread is alarming, as a new variant moves across Democratic R...

  The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have called on researchers and governments to strengthen and accelerate global research to pre...

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a medical product alert on falsified semaglutides, the type of medicines that are used for treatment of Type 2 diabetes and obesity in some countries....

  New data reveals nearly three in four infants live in countries where measles outbreaks are driven by low vaccine coverage.   Global childhood immunisation coverage stalled in 2023, leavin...

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has introduced Medical Devices Information System (MeDevIS), an online platform and the first global open-access clearing house for information on medical de...

  The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a comprehensive set of tobacco cessation interventions, including behavioural support delivered by healthcare providers, digital cessation interve...

  The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a medical product alert on falsified semaglutides, the type of medicines that are used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity in some countries....