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Global Health. Image credit: Unsplash/Lucas Vasques Conflict, climate change, epidemics, and displacement are converging to create an unparalleled global health crisis, with 305 million people in urgent need of humanitarian …
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P. vivax. Credit: Wikipedia.org On 18 December 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) prequalified the first diagnostic test for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency which can help to safely deliver WHO-recommended …
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#COVID19#WHO#WHOData#WHOCovidData The World Health Organization (WHO) this week reflected on COVID-19, and ongoing efforts to understand the disease, five years after its emergence. WHO recalled that on 31 December 2019, …
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WHO Academy in Lyon. Image credit: X/@DrTedros The World Health Organization (WHO) Academy in Lyon, France, officially opened its doors Dec 17 with a high-profile inauguration ceremony. The event was …
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Health training. Image credit: Unsplash/Jared Rice Washington DC (PAHO)- The Virtual Campus for Public Health of the Pan American Health Organization (VCPH/PAHO) and the World Health Organization Academy (WHO Academy) …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) publishes its first-ever report on drowning prevention, which reveals a 38% drop in the global drowning death rate since 2000—a major global health achievement. However, …
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#WHO #Herpes #Health Around 846 million people aged between 15 and 49 are living with genital herpes infections – more than 1 in 5 of this age-group globally – according to new …
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Cervical Cancer Elimination efforts. Image credit: Unsplash/National Cancer Institute As world leaders arrive in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the G20 Summit this weekend, the city’s iconic Christ the Redeemer …
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#Obesity, #WHO, #Obese, #Health, #USA, #America, #Overweight A new study estimates that over 260 million people in the USA will be either obese or overweight by 2050. Over the past three decades, there has been a …
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#WHO, #Vaccine, #Pathogens The World Health Organization has listed 17 pathogens as a priority to develop a new vaccine. The WHO-study is the first global effort to systematically prioritize endemic pathogens based …
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