‘I am deeply disturbed by continuing Big Pharma, GAVI, WHO attacks on African people with unnecessary, dangerous and expensive vaccines’
About 8,000 women die per year from cervical cancer in Nigeria, Muhammad Ali Pate, the coordinating minister of Health & Social Welfare, said. The higher rates are largely attributed to low screening coverage for cervical cancer and limited treatment options in the region, although actual numbers vary widely from country to country.
Vaccination or cull? Doctors question Bill Gates’ plan to vaccinate 86m girls in Africa and India against cervical cancer
Gavi said Nigeria’s initiative would kick off with a five-day mass vaccination drive in schools and communities in 16 of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Phase 2 of the campaign will launch in the rest of the country in May 2024.
Israel, Hamas accused of violating international humanitarian law that protects hospitals during war
The battles around Shifa on Saturday raised an urgent question: When do medical facilities lose special protection under international humanitarian law?
Rooney: Man United legend recounts how he took to binge drinking to handle football pressure
Rooney, who was appointed manager of Championship side Birmingham City last month, says he used alcohol as a “release” from the pressure he had to cope with at such a young age.
US cybersecurity centre tossed into mix-up by China’s stealthy Volt Typhoon hackers targeting critical infrastructure
The NSA’s Adamski and Josh Zaritsky, chief operations officer of the Cybersecurity Collaboration Centre, urged network defenders to manage and audit their system logs for anomalous activity and store logs such that they can’t be deleted by an attacker who gains system access and is looking to hide their tracks.
Arab and Muslim nations want ICC to probe war crimes, crimes against humanity by Israel
Dozens of leaders including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was welcomed back into the Arab League this year, attended.
Former US President Trump joins media push for his federal election interference case to be televised
Trump has repeatedly sought to delay the Washington trial date until after the 2024 election. But US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was nominated for the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, appears determined to keep it as scheduled.
In bold and rare move, Pope sacks conservative US bishop Strickland who’d declined to resign
Popes make such moves, considered drastic, when a bishop refuses a request to resign. Strickland is 65, 10 years shy of the usual retirement age for bishops. Strickland had said earlier this year that he would refuse to resign if asked.
