WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Countries in this category may experience outbreaks of the disease, which will be difficult to distinguish from seasonal fluctuations or surveillance artefacts: warns WHO Following the detection of Zika virus cases in India, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has put India in Category 2 of risk classification, which essentially means …
The WHO India office today flagged to the Health Ministry the recent issue of late reporting of Zika virus to the world body. The WHO received outbreak information from India on May 15, nearly five-and-a-half months after the first confirmed Zika case in Ahmedabad’s Bapunagar in November 2016. WHO India …
The government needs to extend it to Institute of Preventive Health stated sources in health department. Hyderabad: This monsoon, doctors say that they will not only have to test the patient for dengue, chikungunya but also Zika as the three cases in Gujarat confirm that the virus is circulating in …
The WHO award is given to governments or individuals who show exceptional zeal in tobacco control. UNION HEALTH Minister J P Nadda is set to get the World Health Organization’s (WHO) award for outstanding global leadership in tobacco control. One of the proposers for the award is Dr K S …
Jaipur: Rajasthan is on alert over Zika virus, as its neighbouring state Gujarat reported three cases of the virus. Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue and chikungunya, is also responsible for spreading Zika virus. The state is highly vulnerable to Zika, as breeding of the aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the …
Blantyre — The World Health Organization (WHO) of the Africa Region Office has called upon its member states to include tobacco control in their national policies, plans and SDG implementation frameworks as one way of reducing tobacco-related diseases. According to a press statement issued by WHO ahead of the World …
The European Food Safety Authority dismissed a study linking a Monsanto weedkiller to cancer after counsel from a US Environmental Protection Agency officer allegedly linked to the company. Jess Rowlands, the former head of the EPA’s cancer assessment review committee (CARC), who figures in more than 20 lawsuits and had …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is splashing money on travel far more than it does on three crucial diseases that it continues to fight. The combined financial commitments it made to AIDS, TB and malaria in 2016 stood at $191m, $71, $61 and $59m respectively. Yet, the WHO – which …
The WHO has Tuesday elected elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an Ethiopian, as its new Director-General. He will succeed Dr Margaret Chan, who has been WHO’s Director-General since 1 January 2007. Prior to his election as WHO’s next Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ethiopia …
Geneva — Three years after Ebola crisis, Dr. Matsidisho Moeti’s Transformation Agenda yields numerous achievements by WHO in the Africa region; sets stage for new focus on adolescent health and establishment of emergency response hubs The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Director for Africa announced today four new flagship programs …
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) -- An estimated number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Somalia has increased to 6.7 million, more than half the population of the country, the UN said on Wednesday. The UN humanitarian agency OCHA said the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate despite the rains, which are …
The World Health Organization’s regional chief for Africa reports prospects for rapidly controlling the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo are good. While not underestimating the difficulties that lie ahead in bringing this latest outbreak of Ebola to an end, Matshidiso Moeti told VOA …
A fourth person has likely died from Ebola in remote northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said on Sunday, as the overall number of cases rose to 37 from 29. Of the 37 cases of haemorrhagic fever discovered since early May, two have been confirmed as Ebola, …
The state health minister, Hussein Enoka said the task force, which comprises of other health partners, is mandated to monitor the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The taskforce, comprising of 17 members selected from various health institutions, will monitor and report Ebola related cases. “We …
The campaign is targeting 125000 children aged 6 to 59 months from communities of internally displaced persons in Banadir and Afgoye.21 May 2017 - The World Health Organization with the Federal Government of Somalia and UNICEF launched a preventative measles vaccination campaign yesterday targeting 125 000 children aged 6 to …
* Air pollution is responsible for about one in every nine deaths annually, with almost two-thirds of those deaths in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia, the WHO says. * By 2040, Asia will account for almost 90 percent of the rise in premature deaths attributable to air pollution. * …
LONDON (Reuters) - An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo involving up to 20 people is in an extremely remote area and presents a high risk at a national level, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. In an update on the outbreak, first confirmed last week, …
DAKAR - Health workers are monitoring more than 400 people amid an Ebola outbreak in a remote corner of Congo where already three deaths have been blamed on the virus, the World Health Organization said Thursday. An experimental vaccine has been developed since the West African epidemic in 2014-2016 that …
Geneva - An unlicensed Ebola vaccine could soon be tested in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hit by an outbreak of the virus, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. There is no licensed vaccine for the Ebola virus, but a promising candidate vaccine could be …
African governments and their development partners should invest in new home-grown initiatives to reduce high death rates among the continent's youth from preventable causes, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a report released in Nairobi on Tuesday The report titled 'Global accelerated action for the health of adolescents: Guidance …
