Tag: WHO

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  World No Tobacco Day: the damage tobacco causes to lung health

  

  On World No Tobacco Day (31 May), the World Health Organization is highlighting the damage tobacco causes to lung health: over 40% of all tobacco-related deaths are from lung diseases like cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and tuberculosis. WHO is calling on countries and partners to increase action to protect people from exposure to tobacco.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  WHO welcomes Food & Beverage lobby commitment to eliminate trans fat by 2023

  

  The World Health Organization has welcomed the commitment by the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to align with the WHO target to eliminate industrially produced trans fat from the global food supply by 2023.

• Thursday, April 25th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  WHO guidelines on physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep for children under 5 years of age

  

  Children under five must spend less time sitting watching screens, or restrained in prams and seats, get better quality sleep and have more time for active play if they are to grow up healthy, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization.

• Saturday, December 1st 2018 - 10:18 UTC

  World AIDS Day 2018, “Know your status”, celebrates 30th anniversary

  

  World AIDS Day 2018 will be commemorated on Saturday December first under the global theme “Know your status”. The occasion also celebrates the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day, first initiated by WHO in 1988.

• Monday, October 1st 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  WHO kicks off global initiative to treat children with cancer

  

  WHO has announced a new effort - the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer - with the aim of reaching at least a 60% survival rate for children with cancer by 2030, thereby saving an additional one million lives. This new target represents a doubling of the global cure rate for children with cancer.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Measles cases hit record high in the European Region

  

  Over 41 000 children and adults in the WHO European Region have been infected with measles in the first 6 months of 2018. The total number for this period far exceeds the 12-month totals reported for every other year this decade.

• Thursday, April 12th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  WHO and UNICEF issue new guidance to promote breastfeeding in health facilities

  

  WHO and UNICEF today issued new ten-step guidance to increase support for breastfeeding in health facilities that provide maternity and newborn services. Breastfeeding all babies for the first 2 years would save the lives of more than 820 000 children under age 5 annually.