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Tag Archives: WHO
  • Fatality Rate of Bacterial Meningitis

    Posted by Rose Kwett on June 15, 2022

    According to the World Health Organization (WHO) is leading an effort to ‘defeat meningitis by 2030’, to reduce cases of vaccine-preventable bacterial meningitis by 50 percent and…


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  • Defeat Meningitis

    Posted by Rose Kwett on December 29, 2021

    Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, said, “Wherever it occurs, meningitis can be deadly and debilitating; it strikes quickly, has serious health, economic and social consequences, and…


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  • Crisis Worsens

    Posted by Rose Kwett on April 18, 2017

    Nigeria has taken delivery of only 500,000 doses out of 1.3 million doses of vaccines for meningitis type C strain outbreak. (more…)


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  • State Acts Quickly

    Posted by Rose Kwett on March 27, 2017

    The death toll as a result of the meningitis epidemic in Sokoto State has now risen to 21. (more…)


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  • West Africa hit!

    Posted by Rose Kwett on February 23, 2017

    The meningitis belt of West Africa has been hit again with an outbreak of this deadly disease. (more…)


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