Is WHO nod for China’s Sinovac a domino effect of COVID-19 second wave in India?

The process of approval has become slower since Pfizer and BioNTech received approval

WHO lists only one strain of COVID-19 that emerged in India as a variant of concern

WHO had declared a total of three strains found in India variants of concern

Handbook to assess foodborne disease burden: WHO shows the way

The handbook aims to develop framework for routine updating estimates; provide baseline against which food safety interventions can be evaluated

Re-design health innovation ecosystem for the common good: WHO         

WHO’s Council on the Economics of Health for All issues brief on equitable health innovation

Antibiotic use in food animals can be reduced by improving their welfare

Antibiotics should be reserved to treat animals, not used to promote fast growth or as band aids across the herd to prevent stressed …

Re-embrace democracy, Free World

The pandemic response will become truly global only when the vaccine becomes a global good

COVID-19 in Africa: Drop in blood donations threat to maternal health, says WHO

In 2017, maternal deaths in sub-Sahara Africa accounted for 66% of the 303,000 maternal deaths recorded globally

World not on track to reduce suicide mortality rate by 2030 : WHO

While COVID-19 has increased mental stress globally, a new WHO report shows a crisis was already in place in 2019

After WASH report, burden of eradicating open defecation shifts to Africa

Around 196 million of the 494 million people practising open defecation in the world are from sub-Saharan Africa

WHO approves Tocilizumab for COVID-19 treatment

Extremely high price, poor availability bottlenecks in drug usage

Global warming can put billions at risk of malaria, dengue: Study

Policy makers should prepare appropriate strategies to build resilience to major mosquito-borne diseases in a warmer and more urbanised world, …

Zika threat in Kerala can undo COVID-19 containment efforts, fear health experts

Zika infections in Thiruvanathapuram have created shock waves in cities that have a perennial mosquito problem

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

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 …

India’s first bird flu death: Back to zoonotic diseases

The disease has been on India’s radar since 2006; need to strengthen disease surveillance, train workforce and build robust …

COVID-19: India may see 1.25 million excess deaths by November 1, says IHME

Daily rate of excess deaths due to COVID-19 was greater than 4 per million in Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya and Sikkim, the report …

World Drowning Prevention Day: There is a need to create safe spaces, says WHO

Drowning is among the top 10 leading causes of death for children and youth aged between one and 24 years

Children, adolescents who use e-cigarettes twice as likely to smoke conventional ones later: WHO

There is growing evidence that e-cigarettes affects brain development in adolescents

Simply Put: Healthy diet

Stop boosters now: WHO to rich countries on COVID-19 vaccines

Less than 1% of the population in Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, Somalia have been fully vaccinated due to supply shortage  

West Africa records 1st death from ‘highly infectious’ Marburg virus 

Case fatality rate of the infection is 24-88% 

Ivory Coast declares first Ebola outbreak in 26 years; 3rd African country to do so in 2021

Great concern that outbreak declared in capital city Abidjan, a metropolis of more than 4 million people: WHO 

Urgently need $7.7 billion to save lives from Delta, emerging COVID-19 variants: WHO

Huge gap in ACT-Acceletor funding needed to deliver crucial medical supplies across the world to combat COVID-19

Protect patients, health workers and facilities: WHO to all parties in Afghanistan

The World Health Organization was committed to staying in Afghanistan and delivering critical health services, it said

Taliban takeover will impact Afghanistan healthcare: What’s WHO doing about it

WHO working with new Taliban regime to see to it that healthcare services are not impacted