Health Reporters

By Haruna Gimba The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), former Tanzanian President, Dr Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete and Wife of the Nigeria’s Senate President, Mrs Toyin Saraki, have united health leaders at a high-level health forum to address the global state ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Puras, on Tuesday, called for a “sea change” in mental health care around the world. He made the call while presenting his latest report to the UN ...

By Asmau Ahmad The World Bank on Thursday called on countries to increase funding to prevent and contain infectious diseases. The bank said in a report that the appeal became necessary despite progress made since the Zika and Ebola crises, ...

By Haruna Gimba Africa’s candidate for the WHO top job, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has finally been elected to replace outgoing Dr Margaret Chan as Director-General of the United Nations health outfit after three rounds of voting. A former health ...

By Aminu Magashi Garba Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus former Ethiopian Minister of Health is today Tuesday 23rd May 2017 elected as the next Director General of World Health Organization (W.H.O). He was elected by the delegates of the 70th World Health ...

By Aminu Magashi Garba Today April 24, 2017 marks a historic moment as the Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Every Woman Every Child Investors Group unanimously approved the Civil Societies’ Engagement Strategy that will support to roll out implementation of ...

By Aminu Magashi Garba At a Geneva 5 day summit that kick started on the 19th April 2017, Governments and private donors had pledge US$812 million. The new pledge was in line with the collective efforts to control and eliminate ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it will hold the first Global Ministerial Conference on Tuberculosis (TB) as part of efforts to end the epidemic by 2030. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti said in ...

By Haruna Gimba The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN Women) has agreed on a roadmap to women’s full and equal participation in the economy as a vital step to achieving sustainable development. Executive Director of UN ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that there was the critical need for research and development of new antibiotics to tackle the threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The Director-General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, said on Wednesday ...