WHO travel to support programme work
Travel is an essential aspect of WHO ’s global health work-- convening experts for collective decision-making on health interventions or traveling experts anywhere in the world that requires technical assistance for global health. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - May 21, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: governance [subject], European Region [region], Press release [doctype], Switzerland [country] Source Type: news
Major research funders and international NGOs to implement WHO standards on reporting clinical trial results
Some of the world's largest funders of medical research and international non-governmental organizations today agreed on new standards that will require all clinical trials they fund or support to be registered and the results disclosed publicly. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - May 18, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: clinical trials [subject], clinical trial, drug trials, drug approval, drug testing, Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
Almost half of all deaths now have a recorded cause, WHO data show
WHO is concerned by the chronic shortage of funding for life-saving work in Somalia in response to the ongoing drought that has plunged the country further towards famine, disease, and health insecurity. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - May 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: statistics [subject], data, health statistics, Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
More than 1.2 million adolescents die every year, nearly all preventable
More than 3000 adolescents die every day, totalling 1.2 million deaths a year, from largely preventable causes, according to a new report from WHO and partners. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - May 16, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: adolescent health [subject], adolescent, youth, young people, teen health, teenager, adolescence, adolescents, Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
WHO calls for immediate action to save lives in Somalia
WHO is concerned by the chronic shortage of funding for life-saving work in Somalia in response to the ongoing drought that has plunged the country further towards famine, disease, and health insecurity. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - May 11, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, Eastern Mediterranean Region [region], Press release [doctype], Somalia [country] Source Type: news
Speed management key to saving lives, making cities more liveable
Managing speed, a new report from WHO, suggests that excessive or inappropriate speed contributes to 1 in 3 road traffic fatalities worldwide. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - May 5, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: road safety [subject], road safety [subject], Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
WHO to begin pilot prequalification of biosimilars for cancer treatment
his year WHO will launch a pilot project for prequalifying biosimilar medicines, a step towards making some of the most expensive treatments for cancer more widely available in low- and middle-income countries. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - May 4, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Thousands of lives at risk as Gaza public hospitals face fuel and electricity crisis
Increasing power cuts and shortages of fuel are creating an impending crisis for Gaza ’s 14 public hospitals, threatening the closure of essential health services which would leave thousands of people without access to life-saving health care. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - April 27, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, Eastern Mediterranean Region [region] Source Type: news
WHO Director-General ’s statement to high-level pledging event for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen
Nearly 19 million people in Yemen are in desperate need of assistance. This is a country that has been battered by conflict for more than two years. This is a country that, before the conflict intensified, was already extremely vulnerable following years of poverty, political unrest, and weak rule of law. Since the conflict intensified, some 325 attacks have been verified on health facilities, schools, markets, roads, and other infrastructure, added to the challenges and the population ’s many causes of misery. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - April 25, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: director-general [subject], director-general [subject], Eastern Mediterranean Region [region], Yemen [country] Source Type: news
Statement of the 13th IHR Emergency Committee regarding the international spread of poliovirus
The thirteenth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the international spread of poliovirus was convened via teleconference by the Director General on 24 April 2017. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - April 24, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: poliomyelitis [subject], polio, poliovirus, polio encephalitis, poliomyelitis [subject], polio, poliovirus, polio encephalitis, Statement [doctype] Source Type: news
Prevent malaria - save lives: WHO push for prevention on World Malaria Day, 25th April
At an event on the eve of World Malaria Day in Nairobi, WHO called today for accelerated scale-up of efforts to prevent malaria and save lives. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - April 24, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: hepatitis [subject], jaundice, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, hepatitis c, hepatitis e, malaria [subject], Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
New hepatitis data highlight need for urgent global response
New WHO data reveal that an estimated 325 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The WHO Global hepatitis report, 2017 indicates that the large majority of these people lack access to life-saving testing and treatment. As a result, millions of people are at risk of a slow progression to chronic liver disease, cancer, and death. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - April 21, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: hepatitis [subject], jaundice, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, hepatitis c, hepatitis e, hepatitis [subject], jaundice, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, hepatitis c, hepatitis e, Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
Unprecedented progress against neglected tropical diseases, WHO reports
WHO reports remarkable achievements in tackling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) since 2007. An estimated 1 billion people received treatment in 2015 alone. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - April 19, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: neglected tropical disease [subject], tropical disease [subject] Source Type: news
Radical increase in water and sanitation investment required to meet development targets
Countries are not increasing spending fast enough to meet the water and sanitation targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says a new report published by WHO on behalf of UN-Water – the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater-related issues, including sanitation. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - April 13, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: environmental health [subject], healthy environments, environment, environmental pollution, pollution, mental health [subject], mental health promotion, water [subject], safe water, wastewater, greywater, clean water, water [subject], safe water, wastewat Source Type: news
WHO alarmed by use of highly toxic chemicals as weapons in Syria
WHO is alarmed by serious reports of the use of highly toxic chemicals in an attack in Khan Shaykhun, southern rural Idleb, Syria. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - April 5, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, Eastern Mediterranean Region [region], Statement [doctype], Syrian Arab Republic [country] Source Type: news
