WHO Launches Free Cancer Drug Program for Children
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a program to provide free cancer drugs to children in low- and middle-income countries. The first shipments have reached Mongolia and Uzbekistan, with more heading to Ecuador, Jordan, Nepal, and Zambia. This year, the program will help 5,000 children in 30 hospitals. Childhood cancer survival rates in poor […]
Trump to Seize Panama Canal, Urges Putin to End Ukraine War
Donald Trump’s return to the White House was marked by bold moves, including calling for the U.S. to reclaim the Panama Canal, withdrawing from the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization (WHO), and halting Cuba’s removal from the terrorism blacklist. He also symbolically renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” […]
Tanzania Denies Marburg Disease Outbreak
Tanzania has denied reports of a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg disease in the northwest of the country. On Tuesday, the World Health Organization had said nine possible cases had been reported in the remote Kagera region, and eight infected persons had died. But Tanzania’s Health Minister, Jenista Mhagama, today said after samples were […]
Cameroon has received more than 330,000 doses of a new malaria vaccine – the first to be approved by the World Health Organization (WHO)
Health Minister Mana-ouda Malachie described it as a historic moment. Kenya, Ghana and Malawi have already started distributing the RTS,S vaccine, which has to be administered in four doses.Over the next few weeks, deliveries are expected in Burkina Faso, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone.
