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UK RENEWS COMMITMENT TO FUND PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS
Early containment of last summer's Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo however, cost less than 2 million... READ MORE›
A FATHER'S NEW YEAR LETTER TO HIS DAUGHTER GROWING UP IN A DIGITAL WORLD
And I understand that you will be under enormous pressure from social media, your peers and what you read and see around you... READ MORE›
WHO ACCUSED OF 'INSTITUTIONAL AGEISM' OVER FIVE-YEAR WORK PROGRAMME
Academics strongly criticise World Health Organisation for leaving older people and dementia off its proposed list of funding priorities... READ MORE›
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BILL GATES: BIOTERRORISM COULD KILL MORE THAN NUCLEAR WAR -- BUT NO ONE IS READY TO DEAL WITH IT
In his New England Journal of Medicine article, Gates said the United States's last epidemic simulation took place in 2001... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN 200 YEARS TO CLOSE THE WORKPLACE EQUALITY GAP. HERE'S WHY IT'S GETTING WORSE.
It may take women around the world more than two centuries to achieve workplace equality, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum... READ MORE›
THE BRITON VYING TO BECOME THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL DOCTOR
David Nabarro has called himself 'a doer who delivers', but what can he do to cure the World Health Organisation's many ills?... READ MORE›
AID GROUPS AIM TO PUT MENTAL HEALTH ON WORLD AGENDA
Good mental health care is scarce in many parts of the United States, but it is nonexistent in most of the world... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS IS NO LONGER A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY, UN HEALTH AGENCY SAYS
If anything, this has been escalated in importance by becoming activities that will be continued in the long-term in the World Health Organization, he said... READ MORE›
ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A SCIENTIST NOT ENOUGH FOR SOME U.S. REPUBLICANS
12 and is recovering from the illness in self-isolation, said the Public Health Agency of Canada... READ MORE›
WHO TO HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING MONDAY ON ZIKA VIRUS
But the WHO never declared a public health emergency with other viruses, such as MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Adalja said... READ MORE›
SUICIDE RATE IS HIGHEST IN EUROPE
Almost 800,000 deaths by suicide occurred in 2015, according to World Health Statistics, a publication from the World Health Organization WHO ... READ MORE›
BRITAIN AND US STEP UP MEASURES TO COMBAT SPREAD OF VIRUS
Ebola crisis Britain and US step up measures to combat spread of virus... READ MORE›
PANELS ADVISE BOLSTERING WHO FOR CRISES LIKE EBOLA
Problems with outbreak preparedness reach far beyond the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
WHO ZIKA NO LONGER A WORLD HEALTH EMERGENCY
The gambusia eat the larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is the one most responsible for the spread of the Zika Virus... READ MORE›
EXPERTS CRITICISE WHO DELAY IN SOUNDING ALARM OVER EBOLA OUTBREAK
The most egregious failure was by WHO in the delay in sounding the alarm, said Prof Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute... READ MORE›
WHAT WILL THE NEXT EPIDEMIC BE? WORLD NOT PREPARED FOR ANOTHER DISEASE LIKE EBOLA OR ZIKA, STUDY FINDS
A study published Monday in the medical journal BMJ concluded that the world is collectively grossly underprepared for future disease outbreaks... READ MORE›
Public health experts say the probability of a pandemic --a worldwide epidemic of a new and deadly disease -- is 100 percent... READ MORE›
JAPAN TO EMPHASIZE ITS HEALTH CARE AID AT NEXT G-7 SUMMIT
The Abe government is considering emphasizing measures to help spread basic health and medical care in developing countries as one of its foreign policy pr... READ MORE›
YEMEN HAS SEEN 100,000 CHOLERA CASES, 789 DEATHS IN PAST MONTH
A cholera outbreak of more than 100,000 cases has erupted in war-ravaged Yemen, killing nearly 800 people, in just over a month, the World Health Organizat... READ MORE›
[PHOTOS] ETHIOPIA'S TEDROS RETURNS HOME AFTER HISTORIC WHO DG POLLS
He was met by a high-level government delegation that included the current health minister, Prof. Yifru Berhan and foreign affairs state minister, Hirut Zemene... READ MORE›
U.N. HEALTH AGENCY RESISTED DECLARING EBOLA EMERGENCY
Senior staffers in Africa at the World Health Organization raised the prospect of declaring an international emergency... READ MORE›
VENOM EXPERTS SAY GLOBAL SNAKE BITE DEATH TOLLS ARE GROSSLY UNDERESTIMATED
Citing new evidence from a study in India and Bangladesh the experts said around 46 000 people died annually of snake bites in India plus another 6 000 in Bangladesh... READ MORE›
MOROCCO SENDS MEDICAL AID TO MADAGASCAR TO RELIEVE PLAGUE
Morocco said Sunday it will send emergency medical aid to Madagascar to relieve the pneumonic plague epidemic that hit the country... READ MORE›
U.N.'S WHO AT CROSSROADS; EXPERTS CALL FOR FRESH FOCUS, STRUCTURE
When executive board members of the World Health Organization sat down for their annual meeting in Geneva in January, many powerful figures spoke forcefull... READ MORE›
80 PERCENT OF CITY-DWELLERS BREATHE BAD AIR, WHO WARNS
When air quality improves, health costs from air pollution-related diseases shrink, worker productivity expands and life expectancy grows... READ MORE›
WHO WORKS TO CONTAIN PLAGUE THAT HAS KILLED 94 ON MADAGASCAR
GENEVA - A plague epidemic has killed 94 people on the island of Madagascar and could spread further, the World Health Organization said on Friday... READ MORE›
LIFE EXPECTANCY WORLDWIDE HAS INCREASED BY FIVE YEARS
Life expectancy worldwide has increased by about five years in the last 15 years, according to a report issued Thursday by the World Health Organization in... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS GROWS ACROSS THE AMERICAS
The concern is strong enough that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month warned pregnant women to reconsider visits to areas where Zika is present... READ MORE›
EXPERTS FEAR ZIKA THREAT JUST BEGINNING AND POISED TO HIT EBOLA-STUNG AFRICA
"The focus is clear, put women at the center of the response and protect them and their children from Zika virus infection... READ MORE›
NEWLY ELECTED WHO CHIEF REITERATES ONE-CHINA PRINCIPLE
Tedros told the Chinese minister that it was his first bilateral meeting after being elected and he will continue to lead the WHO to further cooperation with China... READ MORE›