WHO’s urgent call: World needs new antimicrobial resistance vaccines
Urges equitable and global access to existing vaccines as well
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
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
Stop attacking health workers, cease hostilities in Ukraine: WHO
Attacks on health workers have led to at least 12 deaths and 34 injuries in Ukraine since February 24
New guidelines on abortion care will help prevent more than 25 million unsafe abortions: WHO
WHO has released more than 50 recommendations that include clinical practice, health care delivery and law and policy interventions to support …
The World Bank and IMF are using flawed logic in their quest to do away with the informal sector
What’s put forward as pro-poor interventions in the reports in fact risk actively increasing inequality and further disadvantaging …
WHO welcomes Afghanistan’s decision to resume door-to-door polio vaccination
The campaign will also cover more than 3.3 million children across the country who didn’t have access to the vaccine so far
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
World Wildlife Day: WWF urges stakeholders to save Europe’s last old-growth forests
These forests, home to the continent’s largest surviving carnivores and offering ecosystem services, were in danger of fragmentation, the …
World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UNICEF pledge close to $600 million to combat cervical cancer
Commitments at first ever global forum to eliminate the fourth most prevalent cancer among women
El Salvador becomes first central American country to be declared malaria-free
The country has not recorded any indigenous case of malaria since 2017
World No Tobacco Day: Tobacco farming adding to global food crisis, says WHO
Growing sustainable crops can help address acute global food insecurity, governments urged to stop tobacco farming subsidies
COVID-19 pandemic erased decade of gains in life expectancy, NCDs deaths on the rise: World Health Statistics Report
New Pandemic Agreement important not only to strengthen global health security, but to protect long-term investments in health and promote equity …
World on track to shatter temperature records for 12 consecutive months in May 2024
Both air and ocean temperatures have been on a record-breaking streak for the past 12 months and 13 months, respectively
Free and fearless journalism in a fight for survival
Freedom of the press, a cornerstone of democracy, is under attack around the world, just when we need it more than ever
World Sparrow Day 2024: How a Mysuru woman is trying to bring sparrows back to the city
Kokila Ramesh Jain makes customised terracotta nests to help attract the birds; she also organises citizen awareness events to highlight their …
Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals
Researchers from the EU and other OECD nations demonstrated high levels of scepticism
37 of 55 countries facing health worker shortages in Africa: WHO
Shortage of health workers in Africa is predicted to reach 6.1 million by 2030
Monkeypox mortality high in Africa where vaccine remains out of reach
Fewer new cases in last 2 weeks but distribution pattern has changed
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
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
COVID-19 impacted global migration trend in 2020: UN report
The number of emigrants increased to 281 million in 2020 from 272 million in 2019
Climate disasters displace more people than conflicts now: World Migration Report 2022
In India, disasters displaced 4 million people in 2020
COVID-19: Only 17% of Africans will now be vaccinated by year-end
Africa faces a shortfall of 470 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, says WHO
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