Monkeypox not public health emergency of international concern yet. Do we need to update our understanding of this label?

Emergency Committee meeting indication enough of how serious the monkeypox outbreak is

Business as usual for mental health simply will not do: WHO

All WHO member states have adopted the Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030 but progress has been slow, latest analysis of …

Tinsukia’s poor domestic wastewater management paints situation of looming water crisis across Assam

Around 97% of the domestic wastewater is untreated, discharged to the environment

Stockholm+50: Securitisation of pandemics

India’s invocation of National Disaster Management Act to deal with a pandemic was a first and an extreme case of securitisation of COVID-…

‘Paxlovid rebound’ cases have experts scrambling for answers

Is it happening because of the antiviral or is this just how the virus behaves?

Tackling antimicrobial resistance: Now G7 health ministers take it up

Report highlights key healthcare challenges, G7 commitments to address them   

Monkeypox outbreak brings focus back on smallpox vaccines. But which countries have stock?

Smallpox vaccination was discontinued after smallpox was eradicated in the 1980s

Countries agree to sustainably finance WHO amid COVID-19 pandemic

The aim is to reach 50 per cent of WHO’s budget by 2028-2029 if possible

Monkeypox is endemic in Nigeria. But surveillance isn’t what it should be

Virologist Oyewale Tomori explains what Nigeria, where the virus is endemic, should be doing to prepare for an outbreak

Tedros Ghebreyesus keeps his job at WHO helm

Severe hepatitis in children: Why COVID-link hasn’t been ruled out

18 per cent severe hepatitis patients tested positive for COVID-19

70% infections can be prevented if good hand hygiene is followed, says WHO

Improving hand hygiene in healthcare settings could save about $16.5 in reduced healthcare expenditure for every dollar invested

COVID-19: Testing rates declining globally challenge for tracking trajectory, says WHO

Low testing rates also limit access to effective new antivirals

Simply Put: COVID-19 & the undead

India lost nearly 5 million people to COVID-19, says WHO; that is 10 times the official figure

Some 14.9 million people died due to COVID-19 globally; that is three times the number reported

Measles cases double in 1st 2 months of 2022: What does this warn us of

Conditions ripe for serious outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses: WHO, UNICEF 

Breast milk substitute makers ‘insidiously’ targeting pregnant women, mothers on social media: WHO

Milk companies employing even more powerful marketing techniques to drive up their sales is inexcusable and must be stopped, says WHO

COVID-19: India’s erratic CFR makes it difficult to calculate toll over 2 years. Experts suggest alternatives

No agreement on exact number of deaths, even though it is certain that India’s CFR is one of the highest in the world

Countries join hands to prevent, control non-communicable diseases

Governments of Ghana and Norway formed the first group to fast-track progress towards reducing NCD deaths by a third

Accountability, equity: Experts suggest what WHO’s first-ever pandemic treaty should encapsulate

The first round of public hearings for the treaty is currently underway though it will be drafted only by 2024  

New WHO report highlights collaborative action to reduce antimicrobial resistance

Strategic framework designed by the four organisations to advance a One Health response to AMR  

WHO begins monitoring two new variants of COVID-19 named BA.4 and BA.5

The move comes in the footsteps of the global health body declaring two more variants in circulation named XE and XD

Inequalities in accessing sexual, reproductive healthcare persist: WHO study 

Rates of unintended pregnancies, abortions vary widely within the same region and geographies, it says

Moradabad 2nd most noise polluted city globally, says UNEP

At least 13 south Asian cities are highly noise polluted, five of which are in India

World Tuberculosis Day: At 316 per lakh, India’s TB prevalence higher than WHO estimations

Gujarat has the lowest burden of all forms of TB, while Kerala is the lowest in pulmonary TB, according to the National TB Prevalence Survey 2019-2021