World Health Organization

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COVID-19 pandemic has pushed vaccination rates for the highly infectious disease to lowest level since 2008.
Published On 24 Nov 2022
Armed gangs ‘terrorising’ Haiti as cholera spreads: UN official
UN coordinator in Haiti says nearly 200 murders recorded last month as cholera cases now reported in 8 of 10 provinces.
Published On 16 Nov 2022
Haiti, UN appeal for help as fears grow over cholera’s spread
Haitian official calls for resources amid concern that end to fuel terminal blockade could lead to more cholera cases.
Published On 15 Nov 2022
Sickness, death surpass official count in DRC monkeypox outbreak
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s monkeypox outbreak, sickness and death go undetected.
Published On 1 Nov 2022

WHO says region out of vaccines, antibiotics and insulin as deaths from preventable diseases such as malaria rise.

Health experts say the government’s response to the outbreak has been slow and inept, allowing infections to spread.

Tedros says food and health care being used as weapons in his home region in northern Ethiopia.

Health officials blamed the country’s poor sanitation and crumbling infrastructure, as the disease spreads from Syria.

Ugandan authorities are in a race to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed at least 19 people.

At least 26 cases reported in Lebanon this month, likely the result of a serious outbreak in neighbouring Syria.

UN agency’s regional data show only Europe with an increase in coronavirus cases in the week that ended October 2.

The recorded case comes as neighbouring war-torn Syria is struggling to contain an outbreak of the waterborne disease.

The Uganda outbreak has been attributed to the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus which has no proven vaccine.

WHO chief earlier said the UN agency is investigating deaths in the African country.

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