Health

Amid the devastation of World War II, nations responded to the threat of hunger and malnutrition by creating the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on October 16, 1945. The UN agency celebrates this achievement as World Food Day each year on its birthday, recognizing the work of all those committed to ensuring food for all. […]

The serious risk of disease outbreaks comes after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck a remote eastern region of Afghanistan on August 31 near the Pakistan border, destroying water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure. “The earthquake has flattened home and taken too many lives, and now threatens to take even more through illness,” warned Dr. Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF’s

More than 40 percent of the global population-over three billion people are affected by neurological conditions, according to WHO’s first report ever on the issue. Top 10 includes Blows, migraines, meningitis, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementiaas well as neurological complications associated with birth prior, autism spectrum disorders and cancer of the nervous systems. Improve healthcare

According to the agency’s latest monitoring report, antibiotic resistance increased by more than 40 percent of the bacterial drug combinations traced between 2018 and 2023, with average annual increases in the area from 5 to 15 percent. “Antimicrobial resistance surpasses progress in modern medicine that threatens the health of families around the world,“Said WHO HERFORY

When designed with lived in heart experience, AI tools such as conversational screen readers, adaptive dashboards and captions in real time do not just barriers; They expand the opportunity. They transform access to agency and freedom to learn, lead and contribute fully. Avoid a ‘shining version of the same old bias’ Surashree Rahane was born

Landmark Survey, funded under WHO/Europe’s project with the Europe Commission – coinciding with World Mental Health Day – analyzed nearly 100,000 responses from 29 countries from October 2024 to April this year. The central finding is that doctors and nurses work under conditions that harm their mental health and well-being affect patients. “In the end,

“I saw people running away, so I joined them,” the 88 -year -old Yuri remembers, thinking back on the day he left Ukraine. “I came to Moldova alone, without family and no children to approach.” Most days, Yuri spends time in the yard in a mental health center in Chișinu, where he participates in therapeutic

Dr. Hanan Balkhy, as director of the eastern Mediterranean, said Gaza’s healthcare services had been “crushed” after two years of conflict and “on the brink of total collapse.” “When the fighting stops, a new fight begins – to rebuild Gaza’s health care system and save a whole population from the edge of famine and despair”She

It is, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest report on tobacco use, published Monday, which analyzes smoking trends from 2010 to 2024 and concludes that the epidemic is far from over. Tobacco use has fallen from 26.2 percent in 2010 to 19.5 percent last year – and the UN Health Agency predicts that

Last July, in the remote locality of Butête, in southern Haiti, nine-year-old Jonas* lost his life to Rabies. When a stray dog ​​bite the boy on the leg, the wound seemed less. Like many families who lived far from health facilities, his mother was not aware that immediate care was critical. Within a week, the