The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
The number of dengue fever cases in Brazil is expected to further increase, Health Minister Arthur Chioro said Monday. "We have 745,000 registered cases from January to April 18, and we know that these figures will increase, because new reports keep coming. Brazil has a situation of epidemic, concentrated in …
Abuja — Nigeria is one of eight African countries where clinical trials of a vaccine for the Ebola virus disease will soon commence. The others are Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Cameroun, Ghana, Mali and Senegal. Nigeria's Minister of State for Health, Fidelis Nwankwo, who disclosed this when he addressed the …
Guinea and Sierra Leone have reported 35 new Ebola cases in the past week, four times as many as the week before, providing a reminder that the virus "will not go quietly", a top World Health Organization official said. "It will take an extraordinary effort to finish the job," the …
Spurred on by the recent Ebola outbreak, an African Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is being established this year to effectively respond to major epidemics. The need for an African CDC was recognised at the African Union Special Summit on HIV and AIDS, TB, and Malaria in Abuja …
At the conclusion of a civil society led assessment of safety protocols to the adherence of Ebola preventive measures in certain selected schools in Liberia, positive impressions have been noted even as there are causes for concern to take precautionary measures. The two-prong study which covers schools safety protocol adherence …
As the 68th Session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) opened in Geneva on Monday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced it was setting up a $100m contingency fund to mange any unexpected outbreak of public health diseases as it was with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The Director General …
The World Health Organisation (WHO), confirmed on Tuesday that Ebola has spread further in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Bruce Aylward, WHO Special Representative for Ebola in Geneva, told a technical briefing attended by health ministers that there were 36 new cases in the past week. He said the situation was …
HIV/AIDS accounted for 59.3 percent of female deaths recorded in Nigeria for four years on the average according to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The new report chronicles the status of women and men in Nigeria between 2010 and 2013. It indicated that among diseases reported …
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Margaret Chan, has announced on Monday, May 18, 2015 that she is establishing a $100 million contingency fund to ensure that the U.N. agency has the resources to respond immediately to a major crisis. Admitting that Ebola epidemic in West Africa had "overwhelmed" the …
Taking a page from President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the Incident Management System or Task Force overseeing Liberia's response to the deadly Ebola virus outbreak, has characterized a recent audit by the General Auditing Commission as unprofessional, Unbalanced, unfair and entirely out of context by an incompetent integrity body. On Monday, the …
The Ebola virus that raged in the West African state of Liberia is now all but history as World Health Organisation (WHO) and other leading diseases control organisations witnessed the declaration of Liberia as an Ebola-free country. The announcement was received with happiness among the citizens and residents who suffered …
LIBERIA’S government and the World Health Organization yesterday declared the country free from Ebola after 42 days without a new case of the deadly virus, which killed more than 4,700 people there during a yearlong epidemic. Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, however, urged vigilance until the worst outbreak of the …
Monrovia — With no Ebola case reported nearly two months and less than three days left for Liberia to be declared Ebola free, the country has completed Phase Two of the experimental Ebola vaccines. "As of April 30 2015, we have completed the vaccination of one thousand five hundred; there …
This once-stricken nation plans to declare it is officially free of Ebola on Saturday, barring the unexpected discovery of a new case. The announcement would come more than a year after the outbreak of the worst Ebola epidemic in history, killing 4,716 in Liberia and infecting twice that number. "I'm …
The West African Ebola outbreak highlighted leadership failings of the World Health Organization (WHO), said analysts Thursday who called for sweeping reforms and a doubling of its budget to prevent “needless” deaths in future. Researchers from the Washington-based O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law said the UN’s health …
A study conducted by the Social Mobilization and Behavior Change Communication at the Ministry of Health in collaboration with UNICEF has shown that radio played significant roles in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus in the country. The head of the Social Mobilization and Behavior Change Communication, Rev. John …
Anti-AIDS Media Network or AAMIN, in collaboration with the Press Union of Liberia or PUL, National AIDS Commission (NAC), National AIDS/STIs Control Program or NACP and the Liberia Coordinating Mechanism (LCM), has launched Liberia's first HIV Media Guide for Liberian Journalists and media practitioners with support from the Joint United …
A new Ebola treatment may be effective against a specific strain of the virus that killed thousands of people in West Africa. The new post-exposure treatment could be huge in terms of saving lives in the future. The treatment itself uses a sequence specific short strand of RNA, known as …
The World Bank Group (WBG) has announced that it would provide at least US$650 million during the next 12 to 18 months to help Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone recover from the devastating social and economic impact of the Ebola crisis and advance their longer-term development needs. The new WBG …
The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) has reported a decline in the number of confirmed Ebola cases in the three most affected Ebola hit countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. According to its Weekly Situational Analysis released Friday, as of 10 April 2015, a total of …
