Écrit par WHO | 06 Mai 2017

On 25 April 2017, the Ministry of Health of Liberia notified WHO and partners of a cluster of sudden deaths of unknown aetiology in Sinoe County. The event started on 23 April 2017 when an 11-year-old child had been admitted to hospital presenting with diarrhoea, vomiting and mental confusion after attending the funeral of a religious leader on 22 April 2017. The child died within one...

Écrit par ANSM | 04 Mai 2017

L’ANSM a décidé, dans l’attente de l’issue de la procédure d’arbitrage européen, de suspendre les Autorisations de Mise sur le Marché (AMM) de 11 spécialités en raison de sérieuses réserves sur l’intégrité des données issues des essais de bioéquivalence menés sur les deux sites indiens (Chennai et Coimbatore) du centre de recherche Micro Therapeutic Research (MTR)...

Écrit par WHO | 04 Mai 2017

3 May 2017 – WHO and the Federal Ministry of Health of Somalia launched the first round of a preventative oral cholera vaccination campaign (OCV) today in Baidoa at the Baidoa Regional Hospital, targeting 224 000 persons aged 1 year and older.

The launch was attended by the President of South West State H.E. Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, Somalia’s Minister of Health and Social Services...

Écrit par WHO | 04 Mai 2017

4 May 2017 | Geneva - This year WHO will launch a pilot project for prequalifying biosimilar medicines, a step towards making some of the most expensive treatments for cancer more widely available in low- and middle-income countries.

In September, WHO will invite manufacturers to submit applications for prequalification of biosimilar versions of two products in the WHO Essential...