Tag: WHO
Two Billion have no healthy diet in Asia pacific region
With Coronavirus pandemic having its worst impact on the economy and food prices surging, about two billion people in Asia and the Pacific are...
Promote healthy food in Public facilities; WHO
Stressing that unhealthy diet is responsible for millions of deaths and lost years of good health, the World Health Organisation has called for promoting...
For a healthy world, less politicking is good
Stressing that the Covid 19 pandemic remains a major public health crisis, the World Health Organisation has urged all the governments across the world...
WHO all set to deliver maximum Covid Vaccines
“The end of the pandemic is in sight but we must not let our guard down,” said World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Tedros Adhanom...
One in four health care facilities has no water services; UN
Around 1.8 billion people are at a higher risk of COVID 19 and other diseases because of the lack of basic water services, WHO...
World to see increased measles outbreak in 2021
Covid 19 pandemic has put the break on vaccination and as such the world is in the fear major outbreaks such as measles in...
WHO dreams big of eliminating cervical cancer
Vaccinating 90 per cent of girls by 15 years of age, screening 70 per cent of women by 35 years and treating 90 per...
Vaccine nationalism and the poor
It was only two days ago that the World Health Organisation warned against Vaccine Nationalism. The WHO was forced to come out with such...
Rethink future of environment; organisations
The world should rethink the future of environment and tackle climate change and environmental degradation with ambition and urgency to protect the health, livelihoods....
A baby stillborn every 16 seconds
A stillborn baby is delivered every 16 seconds, which means nearly two-million infants over the course of a year never take their first breath,...