Baku, Azerbaijan — Ahead of the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging global leaders to transition away from fossil fuels and center health in climate adaptation and resilience efforts. In its newly launched COP29 special
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the prequalification of Cecolin, a new human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, for use in a single-dose schedule. This significant decision, announced on Friday, follows the evaluation of new data that meets the criteria outlined in WHO's 2022 recommendations for
The International Patients' Union (IPU), an Indian initiative which brings patients on a single platform, connecting them across the country to doctors, policymakers, regulators and industry leaders, recently participated in the first Global Patient Safety Conference by World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The
Need to harmonize traditional and modern medicine to combat alarming health problems: Sarbananda Sonowal Investment in Digital Technology to Extend India's Services Through Telemedicine: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, WHO Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India today said that India
Winning $250,000 at an award ceremony held in London on International Nurses Day, Margaret was chosen from over 52,000 registrations from nurses hailing from 202 countries. Margaret Helen Shepherd from UK has been announced as the winner of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2023 in
India showed a decline in malaria deaths in 2021 compared to 2020~ The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the 2022 edition of its annual World Malaria Report, emphasizing the cumulative impacts the prolonged pandemic continued to weigh on the economies and health systems of malaria-endemic
New report details exploitative practices employed by $55 billion formula industry, compromising child nutrition, violating international commitments More than half of parents and pregnant women (51 per cent) surveyed for a new WHO/UNICEF report say they have been targeted with marketing from formula milk companies, much
On Wednesday, The World Health Organization (WHO) said the approved vaccination against malaria should be widely given to African children, potentially marking a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually. The WHO recommendation is for RTS,S - or Mosquirix -
The Seventy Fourth Regional Committee meeting of WHO South-East Asia Region, began today with health leaders calling for greater commitment to build resilient health systems and to achieve universal health coverage. “This Session is convened to take important decisions on improving the health status of the
