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 …
The State government has entered into a long-term collaboration with the World Health Organisation for strengthening and revamping the primary health system and to equip the system to tackle the new challenges of rising incidence of non- communicable diseases (NCDs) through training of manpower and other technical inputs. Against NCDs …
The presence of antimicrobial resistance “superbug” that rocked India a few years ago, is detected in all parts of the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, noting that only 34 countries have national plans to fight the global threat of antibiotic resistance. Calling it as one of the …
Three-quarters of countries do not have plans in place to preserve antimicrobial medicines, the World Health Organization says. The body has repeatedly warned that the globe is heading into a "post-antibiotic era" in which much of modern medicine becomes impossible. Its report showed "a lot more needs to be done" …
The financial cost of air pollution in Europe stands at more than $1.6tn (£1.5tn) a year, a study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has found, equating to about a tenth of the GDP of the continent. While air pollution has long been known to be a major environmental burden, …
Officials of the Ministry of Health are reporting an outbreak of measles in the country. The news of the latest pandemic comes at a time when Liberians are sitting tightly and patiently waiting pronouncement from the World Health Organization (WHO) that their country has reached the 42-day period and are …
Over a 2-year period, from 2013 to 2014, WHO undertook an initial “country situation analysis” in order to determine the extent to which effective practices and structures to address antimicrobial resistance have been put in place and where gaps remain. A survey was conducted in countries in all six WHO …
The first malaria vaccine candidate to reach phase-3 of clinical testing was found to partially protect children against the disease up to four years after vaccination and may be available by as early as October this year, scientists reported.The results suggest that the vaccine candidate RTS,S/AS01 could prevent a substantial …
The government on Monday moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking stay of its ban orders on 15-year-old petrol and 10-year-old diesel vehicles from plying on Delhi roads on the ground that it would affect public and essential services. Centre also sought six months time for suggesting measures to combat …
NIGERIA has recorded no case of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) in the last nine months, and is three months away from being certified polio-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO). According to the Weekly Polio Update released yesterday, ahead of the World Immunisation Week, April 24 to 30, by the …
IN spite of the progress made so far, African countries are not likely to attain the World Health Assembly target of 75% reduction in malaria cases and deaths by 2015, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. WHO has also stressed the urgent need to tackle malaria drug resistance and …
China's choking air pollution is moving to the country's west, environmental group Greenpeace said, though air quality may have modestly improved in eastern cities such as Beijing in recent months. Provinces in central and western China, including Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan, are now among those with the worst PM2.5 …
GENEVA – Progress towards global vaccination targets for 2015 is far off-track with 1 in 5 children still missing out on routine life-saving immunizations that could avert 1.5 million deaths each year from preventable diseases. In the lead-up to World Immunization Week 2015 (24–30 April), WHO is calling for renewed …
The World Bank Group (WBG) has announced that it would provide at least US$650 million during the next 12 to 18 months to help Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone recover from the devastating social and economic impact of the Ebola crisis and advance their longer-term development needs. The new WBG …
The UN aid agencies said nearly 11 million people in Yemen are facing severe food insecurity due to the current fighting in the country, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that nearly 10.6 million Yemenis are now severely …
The bird flu outbreak in Telangana has the Rs 20,000 crore turnover poultry industry in the two states of Andhra Pradesh and T running scared as it comes at a time when the sector has been bleeding due to adverse market conditions. While the Telangana government's decision to initiate the …
Liberia, where the Ebola outbreak seeing exponential growth in cases last September and treatment centers filled up the day they opened, started to turn back the epidemic when it organized and empowered local teams to handle the response.
Prof. Mba Okoronkwo of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has blamed the death of an estimated two million people yearly worldwide, on unsafe food consumption. Okoronkwo, the Dean, School of Health Sciences, NOUN, gave the figure at an event to celebrate the 2015 World Health Day in Lagos. …
Chinese medical experts are suggesting mortality rates for cancer are set to keep rising over the next 20 years. A new survey by the National Central Cancer Registry shows about 3.3 million people were diagnosed with cancer in 2011. Two-thirds of those diagnosed with the disease die from it in …
GENEVA - West Africa's Ebola epidemic still poses a threat to other countries but the risk of international spread appears to be diminishing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO Special Representative for the Ebola Response, reporting on the findings of independent experts who advise …
LAHORE: The health department has denied any polio case in Shahpur tehsil of Sargodha. A spokesman of health department said that a team comprising experts of WHO and district health officer examined the twins and found them suffering from cerebral palsy, a congenital defect. The spokesman clarified that no polio …
