People everywhere, at all ages, can be infected with meningitis transmitted through respiratory secretions or drops in close human contact. Low and middle -income countries are worst affected. The so -called “meningitis belt” in Africa south of the Sahara sees most cases and outbreaks. It extends from Senegal and Gambia west of the continent all […]

Close by 300,000 women continue to die during pregnancy or birth every year. More than two million babies die in their first month of life and about two million more are stillborn, says the World Health Organization (WHO), which starts a long campaign on motherly and newborn health. The data adds a preventable death every

The UN Health Agency recorded nearly 810,000 cases and 5,900 deaths as a result of the preventable illness of 2024; That’s about 50 percent higher than the previous year, according to Dr. Philippe Barboza, who leads who is cholera team. He said that the latest reported cases are almost certainly underestimated and that the disease

It is almost two years since the brutal war between the forces of the Khartoum military government and the rapid support disorder militias broke out and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Human rights violations have been committed on both sides, and more than 30.4 million Sudanese demand urgent help, with millions of

UN Secretary General António Guterres calls for a renewed obligation to create a more equal and inclusive world in its message that marks the world’s autism consciousness day on Tuesday. This year’s theme – Promoting Neurodiversity and UN Objectives of Sustainable Development (SDGS) – Highlights the intersection of neurodiversity and global sustainability efforts. The goal

The second WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health Co-Hosted by the World Health Organization and Colombia, in the City of Cartagena, gathered over 700 participants from 100 country-inclusive heads of state, ministers, researchers and civil society groups to accelerate actions to limit what is increasingly described as a full-scale health. “It’s time to

Childhood stunting from malnutrition is a global but preventable problem if sufficient investment is found, the UN World Food Program (WFP) said Wednesday in the middle of chronic financing shortages threatening significant feeding programs.

The death toll for under-fives was 4.8 million in 2023-a marked fall-with stillbirths that fell marginally to about 1.9 million, data released by the UN shows. Despite this, decades of hard -won progress in the survival of children are threatened as a result of financing cuts, health system challenges and regional differences, UNICEF and the

“We will see a… real wave in this disease – [we] will see it coming back and We see people die as we saw them in the 90s and in the 2000s“Said Winnie Byanyima, Unaids Director, pointing to a” ten times increase “from the 600,000 AIDS-related deaths recorded globally by 2023. “We also expect another

The attack on one of the last operational hospitals in the area elaborated on the ongoing humanitarian crisis of the civil war between rival military, the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the paramilitary rapid support forces (RSF), which started in April 2023. Among the stolen supplies were 2,200 cartons with ready to use therapeutic food