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2 Sep 2022
Half of health care facilities globally lack basic hygiene services – WHO, UNICEF
News Release by the World Health Organisation Newly established global estimate on hygiene reveals the risk of disease spread and infections to patients and health care providers Half of health care f...
26 Aug 2022
WHO Director-General congratulates Togo on becoming first country to eliminate four neglected tropical diseases
WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today extended his congratulations to the Republic of Togo, as it was confirmed that the West African country had become the first country to elimi...
19 Aug 2022
Joint Statement: Call for increased political commitment and accountability in preparation for the 2023 United Nations High-Level meeting on Tuberculosisvi
News Release by WHO In June 2022, WHO’s Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus held a dialogue with WHO’s Civil Society Task Force on Tuberculosis (CSTF-TB) in Geneva, Switzerland.&n...
12 Aug 2022
Launch of the first WHO position paper on optimizing brain health across life
News Release by World Health Organisation Brain health is an evolving concept, attracting increasing attention not only from the health sector but also from wider society, stimulating rich debate – ...
5 Aug 2022
WHO launches appeal to respond to urgent health needs in the greater Horn of Africa
News Release by World Health Organization Millions of lives are in peril, including children. US$ 123.7 million is needed for the health agency’s response until December 2022. The health and lives o...
29 Jul 2022
WHO recommends long-lasting cabotegravir for HIV prevention
News Release by World Health Organization WHO on 28/07/22 released new guidelines for the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV and calle...
22 Jul 2022
Give WHO land for ‘our’ Hospital
Editorial Opinion by Jaindi Kisero from Nation Media Group Here is my take on the Kenyatta University land saga. In the early 1970s, Nairobi, Delhi and New Mexico put in bids for hosting the Unep head...
15 Jul 2022
COVID-19 pandemic fuels largest continued backslide in vaccinations in three decades
Source: WHO WHO and UNICEF sound the alarm as new data shows global vaccination coverage continued to decline in 2021, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving vaccines The largest sustained ...
8 Jul 2022
NHIF members enjoy more benefits from improved package
The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) has rolled out a set of changes that have taken effect starting July 1. NHIF has increased hospital refunds by 12 per cent. It will also pay for 549 sur...
8 Jul 2022
Why global hunger is not going away soon
Press Relesase by UN The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID...
1 Jul 2022
Healing the health system in Kenya: Health Service Commission headache
Deputy President William Ruto has promised health workers that he will set up a Health Service Commission if he succeeds in his ambitions for the presidency. A Health Service Commission would be a boo...
1 Jul 2022
NHIF and Janssen Kenya seal a Partnership to Enhance Patient Access to Prostate Cancer Drugs
Press release by NHIF and Janssen Kenya Prostate cancer patients covered by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) can now access an innovator prescription drug manufactured and distributed by ...
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