World Bank Helps Bhutan Scale up COVID 19 Vaccination
The World Bank last week approved $10 million to help Bhutan scale up its vaccination program against COVID 19, including providing booster doses to the eligible population.
Child immunization programme reaches Rohingya refugee children on Bhasan Char island
George Laryea-Adjei, UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, inoculates a Rohingya refugee baby with...
New Ebola outbreak declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Health workers put on personal protective equipment (PPE) before entering an Ebola quarantine...
First case of HIV cure in a woman after stem cell transplantation reported at CROI-2022
The International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial Network (IMPAACT) P1107 reported the first case of HIV cure in a woman living with HIV submitted to a dual stem cell transplant (i.e., an umbilical cord blood transplant combined with...
WHO establishes the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India on 25, March 2022 signed an agreement to establish the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine. This global knowledge centre for traditional medicine, supported by an investment of USD...
WHO establishes the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India signed an agreement to establish the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine, on March 25th. This global knowledge centre for traditional medicine, supported by an investment of USD...
On World TB day WHO calls for increased investments into TB services and research
On World TB Day, WHO calls for an urgent investment of resources, support, care and information into the fight against tuberculosis (TB). Although 66 million lives have been saved since 2000, the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed those gains. For the...
WHO reveals countries to produce first COVID-busting mRNA vaccines in Africa
A lab worker in the mRNA technology transfer hub in South Africa, one of the...
WHO: New guidance on treating complications due to unsafe abortion
Around 45 per cent of all abortions are unsafe, 97 per cent of which take place in...
COVID-19: Current vaccines may need to be updated, experts warn
Communities in Kohima, India, are being vaccinated against COVID-19.
