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Africa: Expert Panel Endorses Protocol for Covid-19 Herbal Medicine Clinical Trials
WHO, 19 September 2020
The Regional Expert Committee on Traditional Medicine for COVID-19 formed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the… Read more »
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Africa: Social, Environmental Factors Seen Behind Africa's Low Covid-19 Cases
WHO, 24 September 2020
COVID-19 transmission in Africa has been marked by relatively fewer infections, which have been on the decline over the past two months, owing to a variety of socio-ecological… Read more »
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Guinea: Overcoming Covid-19 At 99 Years Old
WHO, 24 September 2020
When Bagama Guehara walked out of Donka Hospital in Guinea's capital, Conakry, on 7 July this year, leaning on a walking stick for support, she was met with a rapturous applause… Read more »
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WHO, 23 September 2020
Joint statement by WHO, UN, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNAIDS, ITU, UN Global Pulse, and IFRC Read more »
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Africa: WHO Director-General's Introductory Remarks At the Unga Side Event On Infodemic Management
WHO, 23 September 2020
WHO, UNICEF, UN Global Pulse, ITU, UNESCO, IFRC and UNDP Read more »
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Africa: Covid-19 Pandemic - Countries Urged to Take Stronger Action to Stop Spread of Harmful Information
WHO, 23 September 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) together with the UN, specialised agencies and partners today called on countries to develop and implement action plans to promote the timely… Read more »
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Africa: WHO's Three Messages for UN75
WHO, 15 September 2020
As the world comes together at an unprecedented virtual session of the 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA), WHO has three messages to share. Read more »
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Daily Maverick, 20 September 2020
Global corruption has now become a $1-trillion-a-year industry. The UN Declaration of Human Rights, formulated 75 years ago, singles out tyranny and oppression as enemies of human… Read more »
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Africa: The UN At 75 - Technology Wars, the U.S.-China Meltdown and Africa's Quandary
Daily Maverick, 20 September 2020
As the UN turns 75, economic nationalism, the rush for technological dominance, religious chauvinism and anti-immigrant sentiment are among the most influential factors forcing a… Read more »
WHO Urges Caution Over Covid-19 'Infodemic', Misinformation
The Covid-19 outbreak is the first pandemic in history in which technology and social media are being used on a massive scale to keep people safe, informed, productive and connected. At the same time, the technology we rely on to keep connected and informed is enabling and amplifying an infodemic that continues to undermine the global response and jeopardizes measures to control the pandemic. An infodemic is an overabundance of information, both online and offline. It includes deliberate attempts to disseminate wrong information to undermine the public health response and advance alternative agendas of groups or individuals.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on governments and health care leaders to address persistent threats to the health and safety of health workers and patients. "The ... Read more »
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With several African countries now expanding COVID-19 testing, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have ... Read more »
