The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, on Wednesday, October 15 recognised Henrietta Lacks, a Black American woman, for her world-changing legacy with a special award. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five who was dying of cervical cancer, went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treatment. Researchers took a sample of cells from Lacks’s body without her...
Wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Ojora Saraki, has been named the special adviser to the Independent Advisory Group (IAG) of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Africa (AFRO). The appointment was made earlier this month by WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti. Mrs. Saraki’s first engagement in the new role will take place at...