Tag: Health
More African countries fight unethical marketing of breast-milk substitutes, report finds
TUE, 31 MAY, 2022-theGBJournal| A growing number of African countries are fighting back against the unethical marketing of breast-milk substitutes by tightening laws to...
New report by the InterAcademy Partnership examines how the climate crisis...
TUE, 24 MAY, 2022-theGBJournal| Climate change threatens the health of billions of people, especially those who contribute least to climate change, but many strategies...
COVAX surpasses 1.5 billion COVID-19 vaccine deliveries
…A little over 15 months since its first international delivery to Ghana, COVAX has now shipped COVID-19 vaccines to 145 countries across the world.
…COVAX’s...
President Buhari signs National Health Authority Bill into law, 83 million...
THUR, 19 MAY, 2022-theGBJournal | President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, the recently passed National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022, repealing thereby, the...
Type 2 Polio| Delta State targets vaccinating 1.8 million children, as...
SAT, 14 MAY, 2022-theGBJournal | Over 1,800,000 children between the ages of 0-59 months in Delta State are set to be vaccinated in the...
EIB President Hoyer pledges €1 billion new support for COVAX
WED, 11 MAY, 2022-theGBJournal | EIB President Werner Hoyer joined leaders from the G7, G20 and the African Union in Berlin last Sunday for...
Vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on the rise in Africa- WHO
THUR 28 APRIL, 2022-theGBJournal | Africa is witnessing a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases over the past year, says the World Health Organisation...
Over 1 million African children protected by first malaria vaccine
… On World Malaria Day, WHO calls for continued innovation to save lives
THUR 21 APRIL, 2022-theGBJournal | More than 1 million children in Ghana,...
Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency to unravel sale of hazardous and...
MON 18 APRIL, 2022-theGBJournal | Following the viral online video of a middle-aged man apprehended by concerned citizens for selling hazardous and expired evaporated...
Nigeria, WHO partners to contain Lassa Fever Outbreak in the country
…Lassa fever is a transmittable disease
THUR 17 MARCH, 2022-theGBJournal| “Contracting Lassa fever was a very bad experience”, says 41 years old Marian Oyinbor,...
