WHO Global Leadership Meeting concludes with new commitment to delivering results in countries
(Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - November 2, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Statement [doctype] Source Type: news
Close to 3 million people access hepatitis C cure
(Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 31, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: hepatitis [subject], jaundice, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, hepatitis c, hepatitis e, hepatitis [subject], jaundice, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, hepatitis c, hepatitis e, Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
WHO report signals urgent need for greater political commitment to end tuberculosis
WHO report signals urgent need for greater political commitment to end TB (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 30, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: tuberculosis [subject], tb, tuberculosis [subject], tb, Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
Substantial decline in global measles deaths, but disease still kills 90 000 per year
(Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 26, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: measles [subject], measles [subject], Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
Director-General rescinds Goodwill Ambassador appointment
Over the last few days, I have reflected on my decision to appoint President Robert Mugabe as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for NCDs in Africa. As a result I have decided to rescind the appointment. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Eastern Mediterranean Region [region], Statement [doctype] Source Type: news
Director General rescinds Goodwill Ambassador appointment
Over the last few days, I have reflected on my decision to appoint President Robert Mugabe as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for NCDs in Africa. As a result I have decided to rescind the appointment. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Eastern Mediterranean Region [region], Statement [doctype] Source Type: news
WHO supports containment of rare virus on Uganda-Kenya border
(Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 20, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: marburg [subject], marburg haemorrhagic fever, marburg [subject], marburg haemorrhagic fever, African Region [region], Press release [doctype], Uganda [country] Source Type: news
7 000 newborns die every day, despite steady decrease in under-five mortality, new report says
(Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 19, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: child development [subject], child growth, child health [subject], children's health, children, young child, child, maternal health [subject], maternal mortality, maternal, antenatal care, mother, childbirth, maternal welfare, maternal health [subject], m Source Type: news
Governments commit to reduce suffering and deaths from noncommunicable diseases
(Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 18, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: communicable disease [subject], infectious diseases, noncommunicable disease [subject], chronic diseases, Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
Suspected cases from Seychelles test negative for plague
(Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 18, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: plague [subject], bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, African Region [region], Press release [doctype], Seychelles [country] Source Type: news
Dr Mahmoud Fikri
World Health Organization announces with great sadness the death of Dr Mahmoud M Fikri, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Eastern Mediterranean Region [region], Egypt [country], Statement [doctype] Source Type: news
Attack on vaccines sets back immunization efforts in eastern Syrian Arab Republic
The World Health Organization has received reports of an attack on medical facilities in eastern Syria that has destroyed the only vaccines cold room in al-Mayadeen district, Deir Ezzor Governorate. (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: emergencies [subject], emergency preparedness, crises, emergency preparedness, vaccines [subject], vaccine, vaccine safety, vaccine quality, Eastern Mediterranean Region [region], Press release [doctype], Syrian Arab Republic [country] Source Type: news
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros appoints Cook Islands ’ Elizabeth Iro as WHO’s Chief Nursing Officer
(Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 12, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: governance [subject], Press release [doctype] Source Type: news
Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades: new study by Imperial College London and WHO
(Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 11, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: communicable disease [subject], infectious diseases, diabetes [subject], diabetes mellitus, hyperglycaemia, glucose intolerance, diabetes [subject], diabetes mellitus, hyperglycaemia, glucose intolerance, noncommunicable disease [subject], chronic disease Source Type: news
WHO to establish high-level commission on noncommunicable diseases
WHO Director-General announced today the establishment of a new High-level global Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs). (Source: WHO news)
Source: WHO news - October 10, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: communicable disease [subject], infectious diseases, noncommunicable disease [subject], chronic diseases, Statement [doctype] Source Type: news
