Tag: WHO

Namibia Is 1st African Nation To End Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission

Ganiyu Amodu

Namibia has become the first country in Africa – and the first high-burden country in the world – to reach a significant milestone on the path towards eliminating vertical mother-to-child transmission of both HIV and viral hepatitis B. This was disclosed on Monday by the African Region Office of the World Health Organisation. WHO said Eastern and Southern Africa is home to more than half the world’s HIV burden and Africa accounts for two-thirds of new hepatitis B infections globally. It added that Namibia is home to more than 200,000…

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Ghana Confirms Cases As Marburg Virus Rocks Country

Ganiyu Amodu

Here, in this report, are the symptoms of the “latest” virus and the reaction by the Wealth Health Organization   Ghana has announced its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre laboratory confirmed earlier results. The Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal received samples from each of the two patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana – both deceased and unrelated – who showed symptoms including diarrhoea, fever, nausea and vomiting. READ ALSO BREAKING: Ghana Announces 15% Pay Rise For Workers COVID-19 vaccine, a…

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ABOVE 45: Working 8 hours per day can cause Stroke, Heart disease – WHO

Precious Ibekwe

  Why working smart is far better than working hard, here are WHO, ILO’s direct messages for you and other workers + research data on how long hours of work killed 745, 000 in one year World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Labour Organisation (ILO) have said that long working hours led to 745, 000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29 per cent increase since 2000. WHO and ILO stated this in a study published in Environment International maintained that working for 55 hours per…

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