[ad_1] Up to one in five people can get long COVID — a condition in which someone keeps on feeling ill for months after their initial symptoms have cleared up. Paxlovid, an antiviral pill that keeps you from getting very sick with COVID, can lower someone’s chances of getting the long-haul version — but costs…
Jumoke Olasunkanmi The executive members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has risen from its emergency meeting on tomorrow’s scheduled nationwide strike. It will meet government representatives shortly before the outcome of the meeting will be made public. The NLC and Trade Union Congress (TUC) were scheduled to lead workers in a strike tomorrow in…
[ad_1] South Africa’s Competition Commission will investigate the American drugmaker Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for the high price it has been charging the country for the tuberculosis (TB) medicine bedaquiline. J&J will also be probed for extending bedaquiline’s 20-year patent until 2027 to block cheaper generics from entering the country. The announcement of the investigation…
Gom Mirian The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced a new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, to be used to prevent malaria in children. The vaccine received approval following the recommendations made by the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on IImmunisation (SAGE) and the Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG). Malaria is a significant health problem, with roughly…
Gom Mirian The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have signed a four-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to prevent substance abuse and promote clean sports. The MOU was signed in Geneva, Switzerland, by WADA President, Witold Bańka, and WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. It is to run until October 1,…
[ad_1] Getting a vaccine against a type of human papillomavirus can prevent cervical cancer later in life in nine out of 10 women — and the jabs are free at state schools for 9–15-year-olds. In 2014, almost 90% of girls at public schools in South Africa got their first of two doses of this shot….
[ad_1] Today political leaders are gathering at the United Nations for the first ever high-level meeting about pandemic preparedness in New York — and to hopefully sign a political declaration on the matter. The document, and also a more controversial and binding World Health Organisation (WHO) accord, which is still outstanding, tries to find…
[ad_1] World leaders are tackling the question of universal health coverage (UHC) — and the dismal progress since 2019 — at today’s high-level meeting at the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York. A political declaration on the table asks delegates to commit to speed up the process for giving everyone access to good-quality…
[ad_1] The Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat of the FCT Administration says it will strengthen synergy with agricultural research institutes across the country to revitalise agricultural sector in the territory. Mandate Secretary of the Secretariat, Mr Lawan Geidam, said the goal of strengthening the synergy with research institutes was to boost food production and enhance…
[ad_1] Despite progress in tackling tuberculosis (TB) in the five years since the last high-level meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, none of the targets set out then have been met. Governments have, for instance, not spent close to the amount of money they said they’d spend on TB. Today, political leaders…
