MoPH Qatar and WHO collaborate to implement public health security measures as FIFA World Cup approaches
Ministry of Public Health, Qatar and WHO collaborating to implement public health security measures as the FIFA World Cup approaches
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World Patient Safety Day: WHO calls for urgent action by countries for achieving Medication Without Harm
World Patient Safety Day 2022. History of World Patient Safety Day. World Patient Safety Day 2022 has been dedicated to Medication Safety.
Breastfeeding: ‘More critical than ever’ start to life
It’s more critical than ever to begin life as a newborn being breastfed, according to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF. New Delhi,…
A new global alliance launched to end AIDS in children by 2030
Globally, only half (52%) of children living with HIV are on life-saving treatment. UNAIDS, UNICEF, and WHO have brought together a new alliance to fix one of the most glaring disparities in the AIDS response….
#Breaking: INDIA’s ASHA honoured with WHO’s Global Health Leaders Awards
WHO DG announces Global Health Leaders Awards GENEVA – 22 May 2022 – The WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced six awards today to recognize outstanding contributions to advancing global health, demonstrated leadership…
One in every 10 affected patients dies from their healthcare-associated infection: report
WHO launches first-ever global report on infection prevention and control Reveals that good IPC programmes can reduce health care infections by 70% New Delhi, 15th May 2022. A new report from the World health organization…
JRC and WHO join forces to use behavioural insights for public health
Joint Research Centre and World Health Organization join forces to use behavioural insights for public health JRC and WHO concluded a Collaborative Research Arrangement Geneva, 12 November 2021: The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)…
Taliban supports the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan
House-to-house polio vaccination set to recommence across Afghanistan in November KABUL/AMMAN/KATHMANDU, 18 October 2021 – WHO and UNICEF welcome the decision by the Taliban leadership supporting the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan. The…
WHO calls for equitable access to casirivimab and imdevimab for COVID-19
WHO welcomed the addition of another therapeutic to the world’s arsenal against COVID-19, but… Geneva, 24 September 2021 – The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomed the addition of another therapeutic to the world’s arsenal against…
WHO’s World Patient Safety Day Goals 2021 promote safe maternal and newborn practices
Why is Patient Safety important? World patient safety day theme 2021. World safety day 2021 date. Geneva, 16 September 2021 – The World Health Organization is calling on healthcare facility managers, leaders and health workers…
WHO releases a new compendium of innovative health technologies for COVID-19 and other priority diseases
New Delhi/Geneva. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for innovative health technologies that can help countries improve health outcomes by providing shortcuts to solutions despite a lack of infrastructure and resources. However, many of…
WHO health supplies land in Afghanistan
Kabul/Cairo, 30 August 2021 – A plane carrying WHO medicines and health supplies landed in Afghanistan today, 30 August, at 12:25 pm local time. The first shipment of medical supplies to Afghanistan since the country…
Amidst Kabul airport blockage, WHO and UNICEF call for assistance to deliver critical health supplies to Afghanistan
KABUL/CAIRO/KATHMANDU,22 August 2021: “As humanitarian needs in Afghanistan increase, the abilities to respond to those needs are rapidly declining. WHO and UNICEF call for immediate and unimpeded access to deliver medicines and other lifesaving supplies…
WHO Call for experts to join Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens
Call for experts to join Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens Issued on: 20 August – Deadline: 10 September: New Delhi, 21st August 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday issued an…
WHO will stay in Afghanistan
The people of Afghanistan need support and solidarity today more than ever: Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari 18 August 2021, Cairo, Egypt — After the Taliban’s occupation of Afghanistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that…
Cote d’Ivoire starts Ebola vaccination of frontline workers
Ebola vaccination in Cote d’Ivoire health workers and first responders in Abidjan Abidjan/Brazzaville, 17 August 2021 – Cote d’Ivoire has launched Ebola vaccination of high-risk populations, including health workers and first responders in Abidjan, where…
Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease, detected in West Africa for the first time
West Africa’s first-ever case of Marburg virus disease confirmed in Guinea The WHO informed that Marburg, which is in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola, was reported in Guinea’s Gueckedou. Is the…
Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death in young people aged 15-29.
FIFA launches Reach Out campaign for better mental health #Depression affects more than 260 million people in the world while around half of all #mentalhealth conditions start by age 14. Geneva 2 August 2021: FIFA…
Ten steps to successful breastfeeding: WHO and UNICEF launched BFHI
Ten steps to successful breastfeeding New Delhi, 02nd August 2021. World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) to help motivate facilities providing maternity and newborn services…
‘Early stages’ of COVID third wave, amid Delta surge: WHO DG
The variant’s spread, along with increased social mobility and the inconsistent use of proven public health measures, is driving an increase in both case numbers and deaths, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO)…