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India accounts for 26% of global TB burden, the highest: WHO
New Delhi: Even as India aims to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, five years ahead of the global target, a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday showed that…
- Middle East
WHO delivers supplies for 2nd phase of polio vaccination campaign in Gaza: UN
United Nations: World Health Organization (WHO) teams have been on the ground delivering supplies to health facilities before the second phase of the polio vaccination campaign starts in southern Gaza, UN humanitarians…
- Middle East
WHO urges Israel to allow aid access to Gaza amid humanitarian crisis
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) urged Israel to grant access to Gaza, where escalating violence has blocked humanitarian missions from delivering critical food and medical supplies. Amid the chaos, WHO and…
- Middle East
28 healthcare workers killed in Lebanon in 24 hours: WHO
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that 28 healthcare workers have been killed in 24 hours in Lebanon amid escalating hostilities. “Many health workers are not reporting to duty as…
- India
Heart attacks, strokes account for 3.9 mn deaths annually in South-East Asia: WHO
New Delhi: Heart attacks and strokes are a global health challenge, accounting for 3.9 million deaths annually, in the South-East Asia Region, including India, said the World Health Organization on Saturday, ahead…
- World
WHO donates mpox sample collection kits to Uganda
Kampala: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated 5,000 mpox sample collection kits to Uganda to curb the spread of the disease. In a statement issued on Tuesday, WHO said that the…
- India
India reports first Mpox strain case that led WHO to declare public health emergency: Sources
New Delhi: India has reported the first case of the Mpox strain, which led to the WHO declaring it a public health emergency last month, in a patient from Kerala who had…
- World
Climate change a challenge for our global food systems: WHO
New Delhi: Climate change is a challenge for the global food system, said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, at the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday. In a video message to…
- India
India among top 3 countries with highest road deaths in SE Asia: WHO
New Delhi: India, Indonesia, and Myanmar are the top 3 countries with the highest road deaths in South-East Asia, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report on road safety launched on…
- Middle East
Gaza launches polio vaccination campaign for children amid ongoing conflict
Geneva: A large-scale vaccination campaign to fight a polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip is set to begin on September 1, announced the World Health Organisation (WHO) representative for the occupied Palestinian…
- India
Outbreak of Chandipura virus in India largest in 20 years: WHO
New Delhi: The WHO has recently said the current outbreak of the Chandipura virus in India is the largest in 20 years. According to the global health body, between early June and…
- Health
Sudan officially declares cholera outbreak
Khartoum: Sudan’s Health Minister Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim on Saturday officially declared a cholera outbreak in the country. “The lab test of watery diarrhea at the Public Health Laboratory proves it to be…
- India
Risk of surge in Mpox cases very low in India at present: Official
New Delhi: The risk for an upsurge of Mpox, once known as monkeypox, infection is very low in India at the moment and there is no need to panic, sources in the…
- World
WHO declares global health emergency over Mpox outbreak
United Nations: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday declared a global health emergency as Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, spreads rapidly across 13 African countries, including Congo, where 14,000 cases and…
- Middle East
WHO commends UAE for evacuating 85 Palestinian patients from Gaza
The WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean expressed gratitude to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for announcing an urgent initiative to evacuate sick and severely injured Palestinians, including cancer patients, for…
