1.4 million vaccines from global stockpile support yellow fever control in Nigeria
The International Coordinating Group (ICG) on vaccine provision for yellow fever has provided 1.4 million vaccine doses for an immunization campaign that starts on Saturday (2 December) to help control an ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria. (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - December 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, yellow fever [subject], yellow fever [subject], African Region [region], Nigeria [country], Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
WHO supports the immunization of 874 000 people against yellow fever in Nigeria
WHO supports the immunization of 874,000 people against yellow fever in Nigeria (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - October 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, yellow fever [subject], yellow fever [subject], African Region [region], Nigeria [country], Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
Challenges and hope in delivering health in South Sudan
In South Sudan, the World Health Organization (WHO) supports the Ministry of Health and works with 67 Health Cluster partners to provide health services within a country disrupted by conflict. Since December 2013, conflict has displaced some 2.3 million people, including 1.6 million internally displaced persons. “South Sudan is a country that is affected by complex emergencies resulting from prolonged conflict, climate change, a broken health system and outbreaks of communicable diseases,” said Dr Abdulmumini Usman, WHO Representative in South Sudan. (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - May 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: disasters [subject], natural disasters, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness Source Type: news
WHO deplores bombing of MSF clinic in Kunduz
WHO deplores the bombing of a clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and extends its sincere condolences to the families and colleagues of those killed and injured. This represents a major loss for MSF and the affected community, to whom WHO offers its sympathy and support - and a serious challenge to humanitarian work in Afghanistan.
WHO once again urges all parties in conflict to respect the safety and neutrality of health workers and health facilities. Tragedies like this can and should be avoided, by warring parties consistently observing International Humanitarian Law and taking all necessar...
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - October 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, Afghanistan [count Source Type: news
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
WHO welcomes the launch of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and commits to work with partners around the world to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Building on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDG agenda demonstrates unprecedented scope and ambition. Poverty eradication, health, education, and food security and nutrition remain priorities, but the 17 SDGs also encompass a broad range of economic, social and environmental objectives, as well as the promise of more peaceful and inclusive societies. (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - September 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, mortality [subject], death, death rate, adult mortality, child mortality, neonate mortality, fata Source Type: news
Nepal: WHO works with partners to prevent diarrhoeal diseases
WHO and partner organizations in Nepal have mobilized further resources including medicine and medical equipment to prevent the possible spread of diarrhoeal diseases among populations affected by the country’s devastating earthquake. “After an earthquake of this magnitude, the water supply is often damaged and contaminated, increasing the risk that people drinking it could develop diarrhoeal diseases,” says Dr Lin Aung, WHO’s Representative to Nepal. “The crowded living conditions in temporary shelters increase the chance that these types of diseases could spread.” (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - May 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: disasters [subject], natural disasters, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, em Source Type: news
WHO, health partners striving to treat quake survivors in Nepal ’s remote regions
WHO has stepped-up efforts to deliver critical medical relief to populations outside of the Kathmandu valley affected by Saturday ’s earthquake, with a major focus on reaching injured people and preventing disease outbreaks. (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - April 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: disasters [subject], natural disasters, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, em Source Type: news
People ’s health at the centre of new global blueprint to reduce disaster risks
Ten years since adopting the Hyogo Framework for Action shortly after the Indian Ocean Tsunami, government representatives have gathered in Sendai to negotiate a new framework for global action to reduce the risks of disasters. For the first time, protecting people's health is at the centre of such a framework. (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - March 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: disasters [subject], natural disasters, disasters [subject], natural disasters, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subj Source Type: news
UN delivers 62 metric tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine
WHO today delivered 13 tons of medical supplies to the Donetsk region in Ukraine as part of the first UN humanitarian convoy, which brought a total of 62 tons of relief materials.
Supplies include HIV and tuberculosis medical products, 612 kg of HIV test systems and 3 tons of drugs to treat infections in people with weak immune defences. (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - February 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, European Region [region], Press release [doctype], Ukraine [country] Source Type: news
WHO condemns rising violence against health care workers, patients
NEW YORK/GENEVA ¦ 25 September 2014 – The trend is sparking outrage at the World Health Organization (WHO): doctors, nurses, and others who work courageously to care for those caught up in armed conflicts and other health crises are increasingly targets of violence themselves. In many cases, patients also are being attacked. This issue is the focus of a high-level debate on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly held 25 September, 2014, in New York on “Health care and violence: the need for effective protection,” featuring WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan and Dr Peter Maurer, President of the In...
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - September 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: disasters [subject], natural disasters, emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness Source Type: news
WHO appalled by attacks on health-care facilities in Gaza
WHO has been appalled by the continuing trend for health-care facilities, staff and vehicles to come under direct fire in Gaza since the escalation of violence on 8 July 2014. Sustained calm is needed so thousands of injured people can receive urgently needed health care. It is vital for health facilities and staff to be able to perform their life-saving work without fear of attack. (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - July 28, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, , violence prevention, European Region [region], Statement [doctype] Source Type: news
Ebola challenges West African countries as WHO ramps up response
The emergence of an Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa in 2014 has become a challenge to the 3 countries involved, as the Governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone work intensively with WHO and other partners to ramp up a series of measures to control the outbreak. Since March 2014, more than 600 cases of Ebola and over 390 deaths have been reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. While the number of suspected, probable and confirmed cases and deaths changes rapidly, the outbreak is causing concern among health authorities because the deadly disease is being transmitted in communities and in health-...
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - June 26, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparednes Source Type: news
WHO delivers more than 125 tons of medical supplies in Aleppo
7 January 2014 -- Over the past two weeks WHO delivered two shipments with more than 125 tons of medical equipment and medicines to health providers in Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic – in both government-controlled and in opposition-controlled areas. All shipments contained surgical materials, medicines to treat chronic and infectious diseases, infant incubators, ventilators and intensive care unit (ICU) beds. (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - January 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Disasters, emergencies and dead bodies
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Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - November 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Breastfeeding is life-saving for babies in Philippines typhoon emergency
28 November 2013 -- UNICEF and WHO today called on those involved in the response to the Philippines’ Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) disaster to promote and protect breastfeeding to avoid unnecessary illness and deaths of children. (Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters)
Source: WHO Emergencies and Disasters - November 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
