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WHO urges vaccine against bacteria killing 150,000 babies each year

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for the urgent development of a vaccine against a…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sole candidate for WHO chief: source

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the sole candidate for the leadership of the…

Pandemic ‘far from finished’: WHO

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The Covid-19 crisis is far from over, the World Health Organization's emergency committee said Tuesday as…

80,000-180,000 health workers estimated dead from Covid by May 2021: WHO

by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The WHO said Thursday that 80,000 to 180,000 health care workers may have…

WHO unveils new team to investigate pandemic

by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization unveiled Wednesday a team of scientists it wants to…

WHO experts back extra Covid jab for people with weak immune systems

by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization's vaccine advisers on Monday recommended people with weakened immune…

WHO set to restart Sputnik Covid vaccine analysis

  GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was about to restart the process of…

WHO recommends use of first malaria vaccine for children

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine, the first against the mosquito-borne…

2.5 million Sinovac doses, almost 900k Pfizer doses arrive in PHL

5.5 million Pfizer doses arriving in coming days, says US embassy official (Eagle News) Some 2.5 million doses of government-procured…

2% or fewer have had Covid jabs in many African nations: WHO

BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (AFP) -- Just two percent of the population, or fewer, have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus in half…

WHO chief apologizes for sex abuse by staff in DR Congo

  by Christophe VOGT Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The head of the World Health Organization apologized Tuesday…

WHO backs antibody treatment for high-risk Covid patients

PARIS, France (AFP) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday recommended the synthetic antibody treatment Regeneron for Covid-19, but…

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