Health

Wearing masks will be obligatory again in Spain’s hospitals and other healthcare facilities from Wednesday, the health ministry said on Monday as the country faces a flu outbreak. The decree was announced after a meeting between...

Moderna on Monday said its 2023 COVID vaccine sales would be around $6.7 billion, coming in above the lower end of its full-year forecast, and reiterated its goal of returning to sales growth in 2025. Shares...

The head of the World Health Organization on Sunday denounced “the effective destruction” of the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of Gaza, adding that at least eight patients had died. Among the deceased patients was...

There have been 30,601 confirmed cases of measles in Europe and Central Asia between January and 5 December 2023, up from 909 throughout 2022, marking a 3266 per cent increase in cases of the vaccine-preventable disease,...

Three grant agreements totaling $80.68 million were inked by the Ministry of Finance’s Economic Relations Division (ERD) with the Global Fund. These agreements, which were signed with the Global Fund for Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and Malaria Programs...

In response to questions regarding his activities as finance minister during the global health disaster on Monday, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed his “deepest apologies” to individuals who lost family members during the Covid outbreak....

Nearly 98,000 adolescent girls aged 10-19 were infected with HIV in 2022 – or 1,900 new infections every week – according to UNICEF’s latest Global Snapshot on Children with HIV and AIDS, released ahead of World...

Dengue has claimed eight more lives in the twenty-four hours leading up to Monday morning, bringing the total number of deaths in Bangladesh this year from the mosquito-borne illness to 1,606. “During the period, 920 more...

Shipments of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331,200 doses landing last night in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previously involved in the malaria vaccine pilot...

Pregnant women, babies and children face extreme health risks from climate catastrophes that warrant urgent attention, according to a Call for Action released today by United Nations (UN) agencies ahead of the global Conference of the...