Tag: Matshidiso Moeti

Hepatitis is a silent epidemic with more than 90 million people living with the disease in Africa.

While Nigeria has seen a sharp decline in infections, other African countries are currently at risk of a third wave ...

“Malaria-related absenteeism and productivity losses cost Nigeria, for example, an estimated US$ 1.1 billion every year. "

Ms Moeti said the outbreaks were largely due to low routine immunisation coverage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The strike was suspended late Saturday night for an initial period of four weeks.

About 45 African countries have received vaccines and 43 of them have commenced vaccinations.

“Altogether 38 African countries have received more than 25 million COVID-19 vaccines and 30 have started vaccination campaigns."

The WHO regional director, Matshidiso Moeti, said the vaccines will be rolled out to frontline health workers in the coming ...

Deaths from COVID-19 in Africa have surged by 40 per cent in the past month.

A report said Nigeria spends about N526.4 billion on tobacco-related illness annually, thus affecting its healthcare system.

WHO says it views each fresh emergence of Ebola since 2016 with extreme concern, treating the most recent outbreak in ...

“The increasing deaths from COVID-19 are warnings that health workers and health systems in many countries are dangerously overstressed."

Ms Moeti said the joint UN-led COVAX initiative aimed at starting shipping about 90 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to ...

The most common forms of cancer ravaging the region include breast, cervix, prostate, bowel, colon, rectum and liver.

Guinea is the only low-income country on the continent to have received doses, with only 25 people vaccinated so far.

The latest outbreak killed 55 people among a total of 119 confirmed cases.

According to the international health agency, an analysis of 14 African countries, showed that the risk of complications from COVID-19 ...

About 1,437,339 infections have been found in the continent of over a billion people thus far.

This figure accounts for about four percent of all COVID cases on the continent

The World Patient Safety Day is marked annually on 17 September to increase public awareness and engagement, enhance global understanding ...

In another statement on its website, WHO stated that August 14 marked six months of Africa’ first COVID-19.

Over 21, 000 have also died from COVID-19, according to data from the African Center for Disease Control.

The WHO says around 35,000 health care workers were infected with COVID-19 in Africa, most of them (24,000) in South ...

The pandemic is gathering pace in Africa, with some 750,000 cases and more than 15,000 deaths across the continent, according ...