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On 4 November 2020, WHO published a series of Health and Climate Change Country Profiles for Small Island Developing States. from News (English) - World Health Organization https://ift.tt/32aQzox

In recognition of World Sight Day 2020, the UN Friends of Vision, the Permanent Missions of Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh and Ireland to the United Nations, organized a high-Level event entitled ‘2020 and Beyond: Accelerating Vision for Everyone’. The event was aimed…

WHO recently published its guide on the mental health of people with neglected tropical diseases. The work analyses the combined social and economic implications and evidences how pain, disability and stigma put people affected by NTDs at high risk of mental depression…

Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year – or 1 every 16 seconds – according to the first ever joint stillbirth estimates released by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank Group and the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. …

With the number of under-five deaths at an all-time recorded low of 5.2 million in 2019, disruptions in child and maternal health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at stake The number of global under-five deaths dropped to …

As schools worldwide struggle with reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43 per cent of schools around the world lacked access to basic handwashing with soap and water in 2019 – a key condition for schools to be abl…

A recent agreement between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the German pharmaceutical company Bayer promises hope of expanding access to essential medicines for the treatment of people exposed to or infected by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium. Infection with the…

It is well recognized that by developing and implementing organised disease control strategies, countries reduce their related public health and economic burdens. To encourage countries’ use of such strategies, and as part of its continued efforts to support dog-mediat…

Meaningful youth engagement to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights   Every day, young people are enriching institutions and processes at the local, national, and global levels.   This year, the theme of International Youth Day is " Youth…

Member States have adopted the global strategy for TB research and innovation through an unprecedented silent-written procedure of the 73 rd session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) last week. The global strategy was developed to support efforts by governments and…

The United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF), a mechanism that tracks and advances the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, was convened virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on 7–16 July 2020, on the theme "Accelerated action a…

Mexico is, so far, the only country validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) for having eliminated dog-mediated human rabies as a public health problem. To encourage countries that have implemented elimination programmes as recommended by WHO and the Organisati…

Date : 7 August 2020 Subject: Substandard/Falsified medical devices and personal protective equipment (PPE) used in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic WHO-identifier: 2020/3, version 1 Type of action: Advice to users of medical devices and PPE used for preve…

As a science-based institution, WHO is always striving to be at the forefront of scientific progress and its potential to improve health for all. A new WHO Science Council comprising international experts from a broad range of disciplines will support WHO in interpreti…