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Only 40% of healthcare facilities worldwide had basic sanitation services in 2025, according to WHO and UNICEF. 11% had no sanitation service at all, affecting about 936 million people. Sub-Saharan Africa recorded one of the widest gaps, with...

May 03, (THEWILL) — ‎Member States of the World Health Organisation (WHO) have advanced work on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing annex, a key component of the WHO Pandemic Agreement aimed at strengthening global preparedness and response. In...

February 03, (THEWILL) — The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that nearly $1 billion is urgently needed to save lives in the world’s deadliest humanitarian crises. In 2025, WHO and its partners provided support to 30 million people...

October 20, (THEWILL) — Nigeria’s health sector reforms have gained international recognition as the country’s Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) model was presented as a global benchmark during the 2025 World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. At the high-level dialogue...

July 07, (THEWILL) — In a bold move to curb the rising global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Nigeria and other nations to increase the prices of sugary drinks, alcohol, and tobacco...

May 22, (THEWILL) – World leaders and donors have pledged $170 million to the World Health Organisation (WHO), bolstering its 2025–2028 base budget as the United States prepares to exit. The donations, announced on Tuesday at the 78th World Health...

April 27, (THEWILL) – At least 15 million vulnerable children worldwide are without access to vaccines, making them victims of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, a recent survey report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health...

March 21, (THEWILL) – Bayelsa State Government has appealed to the people of the state to make themselves available for the ongoing oral cholera vaccination (OCV) as a preventive measure against the communicable disease. Governor Douye Diri, who was represented...

December 12, (THEWILL) - Nigeria recorded 30.9% of all global malaria deaths in 2023, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday, in its World Malaria Report for 2024. Noting that about 40% of malaria deaths among children under five,...

October 24, (THEWILL) - The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Thursday, said that the circulating variant of the polio virus Type 2 has decreased by over 38 percent in Nigeria within a year. WHO Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr Walter...