Alcohol is increasingly being marketed across borders, with young people and heavy drinkers particularly targeted, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report on Tuesday that calls for more effective regulation. The study outlines how the digital revolution in...
Read moreThe World Health Organization reported on Thursday that the total number of deaths due to Covid have been severely underreported across the globe. Most of the deaths occurred in 2021, when overall deaths that year were roughly 18 percent higher that...
Read moreThe infected patient was a 31-year-old man who began experiencing symptoms on 5 April and after more than a week of care at home, sought treatment at a local health facility. On 21 April, he was admitted to an Ebola treatment centre for...
Read moreWhile much has been written about the high numbers of people fleeing from the onslaught from Russian military sources in Ukraine, not much has been heard about those returning, but more than 870,000 people who fled abroad since the Russian...
Read more“Since 2014 , 3.4 million people in the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine have needed health-related humanitarian assistance. In addition, when I started working here, the measles outbreak in the country was the second largest in the world, before our...
Read moreWomen across the world face unacceptable mistreatment during childbirth, according to a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) launched on Wednesday.
Read moreShuttered schools, lockdowns and disruption to services that protect girls, have put millions worldwide at increased risk of being subjected to FGM. This means an additional two million girls could be affected by 2030, according to the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, resulting...
Read moreHuman Rights More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday, calling it “shameful” that governments continued to legislate...
Read moreL’agenzia France Press, AFP, ha battuto in piena notte europea, tra domenica e lunedì, le dichiarazioni del direttore generale per l’Europa di OMS (WHO), l’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità, Hans Henri Marcel Paul Kluge. L’esponente ha dichiarato che la variante Omicron...
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