Tag: WHO
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,...
Covid 19; Stress levels at a higher level among Health workers
The World Health Organisation on Thursday stated that Covid-19 has not only increased the risk of infection and illness among health workers and their...
Younger people spread covid unknowingly; WHO
Young people who are in their 20s 30s and 40s are carriers of Covid 19 virus and the deadly virus is increasingly driven by...
Covid-19 and School reopening; 43 per cent schools lack basic hygiene...
As schools worldwide are thinking of reopening, the WHO and the UNICEF said that 43 per cent of schools around the world lacked access...
Covid 19; WHO says never too late to turn the outbreak...
Pointing out that the spread of coronavirus virus has not slowed down, the World Health Organisation said that it was not late to turn...
Wear mask and be part “Wear a Mask Challenge”
From Friday, August 7, the world is going to see a “Wear Mask Challenge”, which calls for creating awareness for increasing the use of...
India’s covid 19 test rate low; WHO
Even as India boosts of increasing coronaviruis tests, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, August 4, that the country had only a low...
