Health

The analysis emphasizes the devastating effect of toxic air on young lives, with air pollution, which is now linked to almost one in four deaths of under five in the region. Exposure begins in the uterus, increases the risks of premature birth and low birth weight and continues throughout childhood, detract from lung development, reduces […]

“I will never allow my daughter to review what happened to me,” she told UNFPA, the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency. What happens when conflicts displace tens of thousands of people in hotspots like Nigeria, the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC) and Ukraine, and women die every day in birth or pregnancy? UNFPA is there,

In November, there was a sharp increase in cholera cases and deaths compared to the same period in 2023, when suspected cases increased by 37 percent and deaths by 27 percent. Yemen’s cholera crisis comes on top of more than a decade of conflict, widespread economic collapse and crumbling health infrastructure. The country also experienced

In addition, the development added since the end of November, culminating with the overturn of the Assad regime, new dimensions to the crisis, including population displacements and the return of Syrian refugees from neighboring countries. Since November 2024, over 882,000 Syrians have been displaced in the midst of rising violence, which further strives for the

It also cited increasing cases of respiratory disease, composed of inadequate heating, crowded camps and damaged infrastructure. “There is a continuous significant increase in influenza -like diseases (ILI) and serious acute respiratory infections (SARI), since the beginning of winter with subsequent rise in the hospital’s visit and increased public health concerns,” the health cluster said.

President Trump’s executive order from January 20 is regrettable, “and we hope the United States will reconsider,” WHO HERFORIES Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a speech to the organization’s executive board. The WHO chief said he would welcome the opportunity “to preserve and strengthen the historical relationship between who and the United States.” When

The world remains dangerously unprepared for the next pandemic despite the upscaping lessons in Covid-19, Mr. Guterres. “Covid-19 was a waking call to the world,” he said, reflecting on the devastating human, economic and social toll for pandemic. “The crisis may have passed, but a tough lesson is back: Unfortunately, the world is unprepared for

Raidet, reportedly by Israeli forces, so some areas of the hospital burned and severely damaged, including the laboratory, surgical unit and medical store. Director of the Hospital, Dr. Abu Safiya, is believed to be detained under Raidet. That has lost contact with him. A number of people allegedly stripped and forced to go toward southern

It remembered that on December 31, 2019, its country office in China picked up a media declaration from Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their site on cases of “viral pneumonia” in the city. “For weeks, months and years that unfolded after this, Covid-19 came to shape our lives and our world,” the UN Agency said

ONE report Published by Office documents attacked between October 12, 2023 and June 30, 2024, serious concerns about Israel’s compliance with international law. Medical staff and hospitals are specifically protected by international humanitarian law, provided they do not commit – or are not used to commit outside their humanitarian function – actions that are harmful