My Health My Right the theme for world health day this year
World Health Day is an annual global health awareness campaign celebrated on 7 April, organised by the World Health Organization (WHO).
World Health Day is an annual global health awareness campaign celebrated on 7 April, organised by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The (IPU) and (WHO) today signed a new (MoU), reaffirming the critical role that parliamentarians play in enabling good health to foster stable and equitable societies.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on Israel to halt its ground assault on Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, saying 1.2 million people there have nowhere safe to go.
Colon cancer or colorectal cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the colon or rectum. The colon and rectum are parts of the digestive system, responsible for processing food and eliminating waste.
According to the latest estimates in the World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco trends report, there are 1.25 billion adult tobacco users in the world.
"In parallel, we have to strengthen our health data and revise the National Ambient Air Quality Standard accordingly. Raw health data is required to conduct a large range of health studies vis-a-vis air pollution impacts for India's varied demography, exposure and differing PM 2.5 composition,"
In India, the routine immunisation vaccination rates, which is globally measured by DTP3 coverage, was recorded at an all-time high of 97 per cent in quarter one of 2020. However, with immunisation services being impacted by the pandemic, the coverage dropped to 63 per cent in quarter two of 2020.
"We must give time to WHO to make their decisions based on science. However, we hope that these decisions can be taken quickly because people who are receiving Covaxin have certain imperatives of travel. Most of us, who chose the concurrency, is important in terms of licensure. We are hoping for an early decision,"
The WHO approval for emergency use of Covaxin will not only declare it safe for use in other countries but will also enable people receiving the shot to travel abroad without mandatory quarantine, he said.
ICMR said that no cases of 'MU' variant of Coronavirus have been detected, from over 51,000 samples analysed, so far in India. This new Coronavirus variant was identified first in Colombia in January 2021. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated the MU strain of Coronavirus as a 'variant of interest'.
