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 […]
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“These life -changing injuries account for a quarter of all reported injuries, a total of over 167,300 people injured since October 2023,” said Rik Peeperkorn, a representative in the West Bank and Gaza. Over 5,000 people have been exposed to amputation and other serious weapons, legs and spinal cord injuries. Briefing of journalists in New
Um Muhammad Al-Masri, displaced from the northern city of Beit Hanoun, never lets her asthmainhalor. She says she would die without it. Smoke fills her tent where she runs a primitive oven driven by the trash. “I got prescribed medicine, but I couldn’t afford it, so UNRWA [the UN agency for Palestine refugees] gave me
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When her 11-year-old daughter, Noel-Dina, was hit by fever and unbearable abdominal pain, Oriata did not hesitate. She immediately took her child to the nearest hospital. “She couldn’t go anymore because she was so weak. I had to carry her on her back. I was terribly worried and thought I would lose her,” said Oria,
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The text, which was negotiated over five months, will go ahead of the general meeting for approval in just a few weeks. It was adopted at a high -level meeting at the UN headquarters late Thursday, when heads of state, government leaders and health ministers emphasized the urgent of coordinated action. NCDs such as heart
Although the topic of mental health has been raised in previous years, it will receive the top invoicing at the event, which will also cover the prevention and control of other non -transferable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases. NCDs remain the leading causes of death and disability worldwide.
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“Comprehensive research, including large studies in the last decade, has not found any consistent affiliation,” the agency said in a statement, calling on expectant mothers to follow the advice of their healthcare providers. The alarm was erected by the White House on Monday when US President Donald Trump and senior healthcare officials issued a new
The damaged facilities include nine schools and two health centers that protect more than 11,000 people. At least five displaced persons were injured and UNRWAS Field Office also inflicted injuries. The agency says its operations in Gaza City – where Israeli air and earth attacks have intensified – have been greatly reduced after the only
A new UN health agency report also shows that six out of 10 medicines trained outside the region in Europe in 2023, while the number is even higher for nurses. In light of these findings – and the fact that many Western and Northern European countries become “heavily dependent” on these foreign workers – WHO
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke at the beginning of a meeting in the intergovernmental working group on the WHO Pandemical Agreement, which took place in Geneva until Friday. It comes four months after countries adopted the world’s first pandemic treaty, which he called “a generation performance”. Tedros said the next step “is to bring this historical
