Tag: World Health Organisation (WHO)
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Smoke ’em out
Tobacco use is a global epidemic that kills six million people annually. Approximately one person dies every six seconds due to tobacco, accounting for one in 10 adult deaths.
November 20, 2022 -
World Mental Health Day addressing crucial social wellness issue
According to the data shared by World Health Organisation (WHO), even before the pandemic, one in eight people was identified with a mental disorder.
October 10, 2022 -
After WHO alert, Haryana sends cough syrups samples for testing
The World Health Organisation had declared the products of the Soneput-based firm contaminated and substandard.
October 6, 2022 -
Monkeypox: WHO reports 5,322 lab-confirmed cases in 53 countries
The majority of the current confirmed cases of monkeypox are male and most of these cases occur among of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.
July 5, 2022 -
WHO’s plaudits go to prove unmatched contribution of ASHA workers in primary health care services: AITUC’s ASHA unit
“We thank the World Health Organization for rightly conferring the award on the most deserving ASHA workers,” the ASHA federation said.
May 24, 2022 -
Beware of Omicron, warns government
On Technical Advisory Group recommendation, the variant has been declared as a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
November 27, 2021 -
WHO seeks more clarification to decide on Covaxin EUL
The WHO's Technical Advisory Group in a meeting on Tuesday agreed to conduct the final risk assessment after receiving additional data from the manufacturer.
October 27, 2021 -
WHO experts back Covid booster dose for immunocompromised
WHO'sSAGE recommended that such people should receive a third dose of a vaccine as they are "less likely to respond adequately to vaccination following a standard primary vaccine series and are at high risk of severe Covid-19 disease",
October 12, 2021 -
WHO sets year end target to vaccinate 40 pc population of every nation
The World Health Organization (WHO) also announced an initiative to vaccinate 70 per cent of the population by mid-2022, through prioritizing vaccine delivery to low-income countries, particularly those in Africa.
October 8, 2021 -
WHO working to get Covid-19 medical supplies to North Korea
The development is a possible sign that the North is easing one of the world’s strictest pandemic border closures to receive outside help.
October 7, 2021 -
WHO endorses broad use of world’s first malaria vaccine
The WHO's recommendation is based on results from more than 2.3 million doses of the vaccine that have been administered to more than 800,000 children in pilot countries Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi since 2019
October 7, 2021 -
YouTube to remove misinformation videos about all vaccines
According to YouTube, their Community Guidelines already prohibit certain types of medical misinformation.
September 30, 2021 -
Only 2% of world’s Covid-19 vaccines administered in Africa: WHO
The WHO's aim is to vaccinate at least 40 percent of the population of every country by the end of this year and 70 percent by the middle of next year.
September 15, 2021 -
WHO calls for global governance against pandemic
The World Healrecommended the establishment of a Global Health Board "under the auspices of the G20".
September 11, 2021 -
Origin of Covid
On the first anniversary, so to speak, of coronavirus, WHO has set the record straight; the “breaking news” is decidedly more critical than whether WHO is facing restrictions in the course of its survey into the why and wherefore of Covid.
February 16, 2021 -
Prognosis of Covid
The panel, headed by the former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, has advanced the very pertinent point that the UN’s health agency should have labelled the virus as a pandemic sooner than it did.
January 22, 2021 -
Certified safe
Something of this nature will be necessary if travel around the world is not to get bogged down in the minutiae of bilateral transport arrangements and creation of bio-bubbles that have set the tone of international travel in the past few months.
December 6, 2020