UN News - Despite recent progress towards eliminating trans fat from food, some five billion people remain unprotected from its harmful impacts, thus increasing their risk of heart disease and death, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Industrially produced trans fat – commonly found in packaged
UN News - China is “making enormous progress and effort” to get every older adult vaccinated against COVID-19, the UN health agency said, while also cautioning that it will take time to protect everyone. Dr. Kate O’Brien from the World Health Organization (WHO) explained that the
UN News - Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are among countries that have the highest prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health risks in the world. Now, the UN health agency WHO is pledging to work more closely with them, to help save and
UN News - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has unveiled plans to speed up the licensing and use of effective novel vaccines against tuberculosis (TB), the second-leading infectious killer after COVID-19 and the 13th leading cause of death worldwide. Tedros announced the
UN News - Although virus sequencing is vital to detect and track new variants in the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing this information must be stepped up globally, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said in Geneva. “Since the peak of the Omicron wave, the number
UN News - The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the COVID-19 surge in China, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in his first virtual briefing for the year. “We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more comprehensive,
UN News - As COVID-19 infections surge in China, coronavirus experts gathered at the UN health agency on Tuesday, to discuss the next steps. In Geneva, a spokesperson for the WHO confirmed during a scheduled press briefing that Chinese scientists had been invited to participate in
UN News - Over 50 per cent of life-threatening bacterial infections are becoming resistant to treatment, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report published. Moreover, the high levels of resistance to treatment are reported in bacteria, frequently causing bloodstream infections in hospitals, the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and
Following allegations of racist and stigmatizing language around the disease's name, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that monkeypox would henceforth be called mpox. A series of meetings with global specialists led to the decision. Both terms will be used concurrently for one year until the monkeypox
UN News - Nearly 40 million children are at risk of getting measles due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a joint report published. Pandemic-related disruptions caused 25 million
