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  • India in strong position to develop medical countermeasures for equitable drugs, vaccine distribution: WHO official June 05, 2023 06:02 PM IST

    India in strong position to develop medical countermeasures for equitable drugs, vaccine distribution: WHO official

    Under its G20 presidency, India has proposed a medical countermeasure coordination platform to effectively deal with challenges of any Covid-like pandemic.

  • India in strong position to develop medical countermeasures for equitable drugs, vaccine distribution: WHO official June 05, 2023 02:21 PM IST

    India in strong position to develop medical countermeasures for equitable drugs, vaccine distribution: WHO official

    Under its G20 presidency, India has proposed a medical countermeasure coordination platform to effectively deal with challenges of any Covid-like pandemic.

  • What Is ‘Disease X’? WHO Rings Warning Bells For A Deadlier Pandemic May 26, 2023 08:20 PM IST

    What Is ‘Disease X’? WHO Rings Warning Bells For A Deadlier Pandemic

    Just days after announcing an end of Covid0-19 as a global emergency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked world to be prepared of a deadlier pandemic. The WHO maintains a list of “priority diseases” that pose a significant risk of causing the next pandemic. Familiar names like Ebola, SARS and Zika have secured their place on this register, but there is one entry that stands out with an ominous moniker — Disease X. What is this ‘Disease X’? Watch the video to find out!

  • What is 'Disease X'? Scientists ring warning bells for a deadlier pandemic May 25, 2023 03:42 PM IST

    What is 'Disease X'? Scientists ring warning bells for a deadlier pandemic

    The ominous moniker 'Disease X' serves as a placeholder for an unknown pathogen that has yet to be identified by medical science as a cause of human infections.

  • Explainer: How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics May 23, 2023 11:51 AM IST

    Explainer: How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics

    A new pact is a priority for WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who called it a "generational commitment that we will not go back to the old cycle of panic and neglect" at the U.N. agency's annual assembly.

  • Hundreds of millions of life years lost to pandemic: WHO May 19, 2023 03:02 PM IST

    Hundreds of millions of life years lost to pandemic: WHO

    The UN health agency's annual world statistics report also showed a swelling threat from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

  • Artificial sweeteners increases risk of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, death: WHO May 17, 2023 10:34 AM IST

    Artificial sweeteners increases risk of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, death: WHO

    Some nutrition experts pointed out limitations in the WHO report, which was largely based on observational studies that cannot directly establish a causal link between artificial sweeteners and weight or disease.

  • WHO warned against using non-sugar sweetners for weight loss; here's the truth about the sugar substitutes May 16, 2023 06:55 PM IST

    WHO warned against using non-sugar sweetners for weight loss; here's the truth about the sugar substitutes

    The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against using sugar substitutes to control body weight or reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases.

  • India likely to achieve SDG goals for reduction in newborn deaths: Top WHO official May 16, 2023 11:59 AM IST

    India likely to achieve SDG goals for reduction in newborn deaths: Top WHO official

    "India has taken important steps to improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth, leading to reductions in maternal deaths. This will also bring better outcomes for newborns," Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing at the World Health Organisation, Geneva, told PTI here.

  • Tobacco tax hike | Committee lies dormant, unlikely to submit report soon: Sources May 08, 2023 04:43 PM IST

    Tobacco tax hike | Committee lies dormant, unlikely to submit report soon: Sources

    The government is urged to increase NCCD, GST cess and ad valorem each by 10 percent so that the overall tax on tobacco can be higher than the per capita income and inflation growth.

  • Explainer: WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean? May 06, 2023 11:08 AM IST

    Explainer: WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?

    WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the pandemic has been on a downward trend for more than a year.

  • WHO experts weigh up whether world ready to end COVID emergency May 04, 2023 11:18 AM IST

    WHO experts weigh up whether world ready to end COVID emergency

    The WHO first gave COVID its highest level of alert on January 30 2020, and the panel has continued to apply the label ever since, at meetings held every three months.

  • 'High bio-hazard risk' in Sudan after laboratory seized, WHO says April 26, 2023 07:35 AM IST

    'High bio-hazard risk' in Sudan after laboratory seized, WHO says

    Speaking to reporters in Geneva via video link from Sudan, the WHO's representative in the country, Nima Saeed Abid, said technicians were unable to gain access to the National Public Health Laboratory to secure the materials.

  • Sudan death toll rises to 413, World Health Organization says April 21, 2023 04:23 PM IST

    Sudan death toll rises to 413, World Health Organization says

    WHO has so far recorded 11 attacks on health facilities in the country and has called for such attacks to cease, spokesperson Margaret Harris said.

  • WHO says all parties in Sudan conflict must provide access to medical facilities April 18, 2023 08:04 PM IST

    WHO says all parties in Sudan conflict must provide access to medical facilities

    The United Nations has warned of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, including the near collapse of the health system.

  • China reports first bird flu death, three cases notified to WHO April 12, 2023 07:29 AM IST

    China reports first bird flu death, three cases notified to WHO

    The WHO said the exact source of bird flu infection and how this virus was related to other avian influenza A(H3N8) viruses circulating in animals, was still not known. 

  • China pushes back at WHO criticism over delayed Wuhan data April 09, 2023 11:36 AM IST

    China pushes back at WHO criticism over delayed Wuhan data

    Chinese researchers, led by the China CDC’s former director George Gao Fu, however, argued in their study of the specimens that the samples were insufficient to prove the Covid outbreak started there as a result of the virus jumping from animals to humans.

  • China holds the key to understanding COVID-19 origins: WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus April 07, 2023 10:27 AM IST

    China holds the key to understanding COVID-19 origins: WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

    "Without full access to the information that China has, you cannot say this or that," said Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in response to a question about the origin of the virus.

  • WHO calls for urgent efforts to bridge gaps accentuated by Covid, achieve health for all April 06, 2023 07:19 PM IST

    WHO calls for urgent efforts to bridge gaps accentuated by Covid, achieve health for all

    On the World Health Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrates 75 years of improving public health and well-being globally.

  • WHO says infertility affects 1 in 6 globally, calls for more consistent data April 04, 2023 07:30 AM IST

    WHO says infertility affects 1 in 6 globally, calls for more consistent data

    The report analyzed existing studies conducted from 1990 to 2021 and showed that about 17.5% of adults across the world were affected by the inability to have a child. WHO officials said the report takes into account several research approaches.

  • Indian man is world's first human to be infected with deadly plant fungus: report March 31, 2023 11:06 AM IST

    Indian man is world's first human to be infected with deadly plant fungus: report

    The patient, a plant mycologist by profession, was working with decaying material, mushrooms and various plant fungi for a long time.

  • India sees a 15.07% rise in leprosy cases in 2021-22 but funds for eradication halve March 27, 2023 01:18 PM IST

    India sees a 15.07% rise in leprosy cases in 2021-22 but funds for eradication halve

    As of January 2023, India had 88,278 active cases of leprosy. At 17,014, Maharashtra has the highest number of cases, followed by Bihar at 11,318.

  • WHO calls for intensified whole-of-government approach to end tuberculosis March 24, 2023 03:23 PM IST

    WHO calls for intensified whole-of-government approach to end tuberculosis

    It also highlighted the urgent need for strengthening high-level leadership and investments and accelerating the uptake of innovations and new recommendations of the world health body.

  • WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid's origins March 18, 2023 10:12 AM IST

    WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid's origins

    The Huanan market in central China’s Wuhan city was the epicentre of the pandemic. From its origin there, the SARS-CoV-2 virus rapidly spread to other locations in Wuhan in late 2019 and then to the rest of the world.

  • WHO urges countries to come clean on Covid origins intel March 06, 2023 10:56 PM IST

    WHO urges countries to come clean on Covid origins intel

    "If any country has information about the origins of the pandemic, it's essential for that information to be shared with WHO and the international scientific community," said the World Health Organization's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.