Why Cuban doctors deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
Cuban medical workers are risking their health to break the chain of COVID-19 infection. They have also developed drugs to help fight the disease
First World Food Safety Day to outline sustainable solutions
The United Nations has developed a guide to discuss why food safety is necessary and how it could be achieved
World Malaria Day: How Africa plans to fight the disease
Malawi becomes the first African nation to roll out landmark vaccine, Ghana and Kenya to join the league soon; Uganda adopts a new mass action …
One Health: FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH launch research agenda for antimicrobial resistance
Interface addresses global health issues necessitating multisectoral, multidisciplinary response to AMR
Coronavirus vaccines: TRIPS waiver caught in WTO labyrinth
Little change in the position of countries opposing waiver of intellectual property rights; India-South Africa proposal being through hoops …
Pasteurisation inactivates SARS-CoV-2 virus in breast milk: Study
Cold storage of human milk having the virus did not significantly impact infectious viral load over a 48-hour period, the study found
China shifts focus to variant-specific vaccines as it faces an imminent Omicron wave
XBB subvariant has potential to wreak more havoc in China as large number of people immunologically susceptible
One in six people worldwide affected by infertility, finds WHO
Urgent need to expand access to prevention, diagnosis and treatments; rates of infertility are similar across all countries and regions
Laws alone won’t end female genital mutilation in India: Mariya Taher
Down To Earth speaks to Mariya Taher, the co-founder and United States executive director of non-profit Sahiyo on Female Genital …
Global spread of vaccine-derived polio still a high risk: WHO
Recommends declaring transmission as a national public health emergency, ensuring vaccinations for travellers and residents
Countries don’t report disease outbreaks soon enough: WHO chief Ghebreyesus
United Nations health organisation report on IHR implementation tabled in the 73rd World Health Assembly paints a mixed picture
COVID-19: Hong Kong University ‘confirms’ first case of reinfection, WHO advises caution
Whether reinfection cases existed at a population level or the Hong Kong case was an exception had to be studied, WHO said
Ignoring WHO, ICMR to go ahead with HCQ for COVID workers
Indian studies yet to be completed; Indian Council of Medical Research says drug is safe
34% of environmental indicators under SDGs lack standards
Lack of standards means there is no benchmark from which to calculate the Sustainable Development Goals
Food standards save lives, say FAO and WHO on World Food Safety Day
An estimated 600 million or almost 1 in 10 people worldwide fall ill after eating contaminated food; 420,000 die every year
No health net for 3.1 bln by 2023 deadline
The World Health Organization (WHO) 13th General Programme of Work targeted universal health coverage (UHC) between 2019 and 2023
Rewind 2018: State of the air India breathes
Here are the major policies framed, studies conducted and steps taken in the last year over air and its quality
Acute malnutrition risking 30 million children’s lives: WHO
8 million children severely malnourished; UN agencies call for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable in 15 countries
Ivermectin for COVID-19: Mismatch between global and Indian policies
Union health ministry guidelines say the drug "may be" used for COVID-19 patients even as global agencies don't recommend
Every 1 in 3 adults has hypertension, but only half know it
New WHO report called for prioritising prevention, early detection and effective management of high blood pressure
Preventing HIV-AIDS in women: How drug-releasing vaginal ring can help
Girls and women make up more than half of 38 million people living with HIV-AIDS as of 2019
Is India really open-defecation-free? Here’s what numbers say
15% of the total population in India defecates in the open in India, according to WASH report 2021
WHO publishes zero-draft of pandemic treaty: Equity, IPR take centre stage
Many believe draft unlikely to survive in current form due to Big Pharma, particularly in EU
Sudan conflict fallout: Over 1,200 children have died in country amid healthcare crisis, says UN
Children died from suspected measles and malnutrition; those under five account for over three-quarters of all deaths
Only four countries making full efforts to end smoking: WHO
Netherlands, Mauritius join Brazil and Turkey in implementing all recommended measures to reduce tobacco smoking globally