China has stepped up emergency pandemic drills across the country and announced tighter surveillance of incoming travelers amid warnings that a more lethal and transmissible strain of the mpox virus is spreading internationally.
As dengue fever cases rise across the country, Brazil is preparing to launch a public vaccination program. Brazil’s Health Ministry reports that in the first five weeks of this year, the number of cases has increased by about five times compared to the same period in 2023.
Medical supplies were delivered by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) from the WHO warehouse in Rafah to the Central Drug Store of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Khan Younis, south of Gaza. From there, the supplies will be sent to hospitals in the region.
According to the World Health Organization’s latest annual report, the number of tuberculosis cases worldwide increased last year as the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of health services hampered efforts to fight the disease. Henry Ridgwell has this report.
According to the World Health Organization, female genital mutilation affects 87% of Sudanese females between the ages of 15 and 49, one of the highest rates in the world. The UNICEF initiative is aimed at sports clubs to involve men and boys in the struggle against the practise.
As outbreaks of COVID-19 cases across China overwhelm hospitals, the official daily death count has remained in the single digits. Chinese officials have repeatedly claimed that China is adopting one of “two main global standards for determining COVID deaths.”
Hundreds of hospitals and health facilities were damaged by violence, according to local officials, medical experts, and people of Ethiopia’s Afar region, who also claim that they urgently need medical help. As global crises worsen, according to the World Health Organization, it is getting harder to meet the needs of the nation
According to health officials, one effect of the coronavirus lockdowns was that more people drank alcohol more frequently, with the World Health drank wpublicarning of increased health concerns and a rise in risky behaviours. Svitlana Prystynska takes us to a bar with a unique approach to drinking as more bars begin to
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Omicron strain is “another reminder that, although many of us might think we’re done with COVID-19, it isn’t done with us,” WHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus warned at the beginning of a special session of the World Health Assembly.The World Health Assembly (WHA), which regularly meets in May, has been called to a special session for only the second time in its history