Health Reporters

By Asma’u Ahmad Hundreds of people in southeastern Chad are at risk of dying from a worsening hepatitis E outbreak which has killed 11 people since September, medical charity organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Some 885 people ...

By Haruna Gimba The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres has released $100 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), to sustain aid operations in nine neglected emergencies. CERF’s largest allocation of the year will reach more than 6 ...

By Asmau Ahmad A new case of human H7N9 avian flu, has been reported in Zhuzhou City in central China’s Hunan Province, local authorities said. According to the provincial Disease Control and Prevention Centre, the patient, a 35-year-old male, is ...

By Asma’u Ahmad Britain’s health service is engulfed in a humanitarian crisis that requires the support of the Red Cross to use Land Rovers to transport patients, the charity organization said on Saturday. Chief executive of the British Red Cross, ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The United States President Barack Obama and incoming Vice President Mike Pence, held duelling meetings with lawmakers, as Republicans begin efforts to repeal Obama’s signature health-care reforms. President Obama was meeting with Democratic lawmakers at the Capitol ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said with the change in population growth across the globe, no fewer than 40 million additional health workers would be needed by 2030. Ban Ki-moon, in his message on the Report of the ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The World Health Organisation for the Western Pacific has launched a new tool to protect children from unhealthy food and drink that cause obesity and other serious health problems. The tool, called the regional profile model, would ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The World Health Organization (WHO) and other UN and international agencies have signed a new agreement that would lead to more environmentally and socially sustainable procurement of health commodities. The WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan, who signed the ...

By Haruna Gimba A group of Luminaries, Activists and Artistes had come together to spotlight life-changing interventions on ending the pandemic of violence against women and girl in an event held at New York, United States of America. The event ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has called for a pragmatic collaboration among stakeholders to mitigate the humanitarian crisis in the North East. UNOCHA Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Peter Lundberg made ...