Tag: World Health Organization

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Facebook to down misinformation about China's fast spreading coronavirus

  

  Facebook said it will take down misinformation about China's fast-spreading coronavirus in a rare departure from its approach to health content, after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency.

• Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  WHO growing concern with a possible new coronavirus outbreak in China

  

  A cluster of more than 50 pneumonia cases in the central Chinese city of Wuhan may be due to a newly emerging member of the family of viruses that caused the deadly SARS and MERS outbreaks, World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Double burden of undernutrition, rapidly expanding in Latin America among children and women

  

  Low and middle-income countries risk seeing their development progress slashed by the double-edged sword of obesity and under-nutrition, both caused by a lack of access to affordable healthy food, a report in The Lancet warned on Monday.

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Measles and “immunization gap” causing an alarming upsurge of the disease

  

  Measles is staging a devastating comeback in epidemics across the world as the virus exploits dangerous gaps in vaccination coverage, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  WHO and FIFA agree to promote healthy life-styles through football globally

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) and football’s world governing body, FIFA, agreed on Friday a four-year collaboration to promote healthy lifestyles through football globally. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and FIFA President Gianni Infantino signed the memorandum of understanding at WHO’s Geneva-based headquarters.
“WHO is excited to be working with FIFA. Half the world watched the 2018 World Cup. This means there’s huge potential for us to team up to reach billions of people with information to help them live longer healthier lives,” said Dr Tedros.

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  WHO launches digital app to improve care for older people

  

  On the International Day of Older Persons, October first, the World Health Organization (WHO) is launching a package of tools, including a digital application to help health and social workers provide better care for older people.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 08:10 UTC

  French mayors propose pesticide-free buffer zones around residential areas

  

  France is looking at introducing pesticide-free buffer zones around housing areas after several local mayors defied the government by banning weed killers such as glyphosate in their towns.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Billions suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, says Unicef and WHO report

  

  Billions of people around the world are continuing to suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely managed* drinking water services, 4.2 billion people do not have safely managed sanitation services, and 3 billion lack basic** hand-washing facilities.

• Thursday, June 6th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  WHO: More than 1 million new curable sexually transmitted infections every day

  

  Every day, there are more than 1 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among people aged 15-49 years, according to data released by the World Health Organization. This amounts to more than 376 million new cases annually of four infections - chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, and syphilis.

• 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.