Ebola vaccine efficacy trial ready to launch in Guinea
5 mars 2015The vaccine was developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada. A second vaccine will be tested in a sequential study, as supply becomes available.
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WHO calls on countries to reduce sugars intake among adults and children
4 March 2015A new WHO guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. A (…)
WHO highlights serious threat posed by exposure to recreational noise
27 February 2015Some 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of hearing loss due to the unsafe use of personal audio devices, including smartphones, (…)
WHO: Increased funding needed to meet health needs of 21 million caught up in four major humanitarian emergencies
24 February 2015Raging conflict and beleaguered health services are threatening the health of tens of millions of people across the Central African Republic, (…)
Ebola : WHO Regional Director for Africa concludes first leg of visits to Ebola affected countries
24 February 2015Today, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, wraps up her visit to Sierra Leone, her first to an (…)
Urgently needed: rapid, sensitive, safe and simple Ebola diagnostic tests
18 November 2014The goal of interrupting chains of Ebola virus transmission depends heavily on laboratory support. This support is needed to confirm or discard (…)
Ebola - Can you quarantine West Africa?
24 October 2014Since the death of Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan in Texas on 8 October and the Ebola infection of two US nurses that treated him, there (…)
WHO statement on the third meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee regarding the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa
23 October 2014The third meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the IHR 2005 regarding the 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD, (…)
Experimental therapies: growing interest in the use of whole blood or plasma from recovered Ebola patients
26 September 2014Ebola virus disease currently has no vaccines or medicines approved by national regulatory authorities for use in humans save for the purpose of (…)
Situation in Liberia: non-conventional interventions needed
9 September 2014During the past weeks, a WHO team of emergency experts worked together with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and members of her government to (…)
Statement on the WHO Consultation on potential Ebola therapies and vaccines
5 septembre 2014After two days of discussion on potential Ebola therapies and vaccines, more than 150 participants, representing the fields of research and (…)
Ebola announced in Senegal
31 août 2014On 30 August 2014, Senegal’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Affairs provided WHO with details about a case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) (…)