Health

Agency is celebrating this week 20Th Anniversary of entry by virtue of his frame convention on tobacco control (WHO FCTC) – one of the most embraced UN Tractates in history. The Convention provides a legal framework and a comprehensive package of evidence -based tobacco control measures that include large pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages, […]

It follows a campaign last year that reached hundreds of thousands of young children under 10. Polioviruses were recently detected in wastewater samples in Gaza, indicating that circulation is going on, which thus endangered young lives. The campaign is led by the Palestinian Ministry of Health and is implemented with the support of the World

The results published in Nature Medicine Monday warn that if current trends continue, the world will see 3.2 million new breast cancer cases and 1.1 million related deaths every year in the middle of the century. The burden feels disproportionate in low and middle -income countries where access to early detection, treatment and care remains

“I was married at 2pm and I lost my first child at 16 during pregnancy,” said Ranu Chakma. Child marriage is common in her village Teknaf Upazila on the southern coast of Bangladesh, even though it is illegal and a violation of human rights. These violations occur even at a time when many countries ban

It said in a news message that more than 591,000 children under the age of 10 will receive the vaccine to protect them from the very infectious illness that begins this weekend for an expected period of five days. The campaign follows the recent detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples in the broken enclave, signaling

In a media briefing on Tuesday, WHO HERFORY Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the consequences of financing suspensions, including disruptions in HIV treatment, backlash in polio expulsion and limited resources to respond to MPOX epidemics in Africa. “Suspension of funding to Pepfar, President’s emergency plan for AIDS plot, caused one Immediately stop to HIV treatment,

About 400,000 children are diagnosed with cancer every year, and most of them live in low -income countries where medicine is either insurmountable or not available, results in an overwhelming death rate of 70 percent. In high -income countries, more than eight out of 10 children survive. “The platform is now set to close this

Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24-year-old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day a ten-year-old an unexpected visitor came to her house: “She had a syringe, a razor blade and bandages.” The woman was there to perform a brutal, unnecessary and – since 1995 in the Horn of Africa Country – illegal operation known as female genitalia,

When talking from Gaza, representing Rik Peeperkorn described a scene of widespread destruction, overwhelmed medical facilities and growing need for mental health, as the population of the enclave gradually returns to what is left of their homes after almost 16 months of conflict. “Everyone in Gaza is affected … stress, anxiety, depression and loneliness. It’s

Female genitalia (FGM) refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of female external genitals or other damage to female genitalia for non-medical reasons, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “More than 230 million girls and women today are the survivors of this abominable practice,” said the UN Secretary General António Guterres in