WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
It is possible to combat deadly diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. That's what a new report jointly issued by six United Nations agencies claim. The targets for reducing the toll of these illnesses, set by world's leaders at successive summits over the last year are feasible, states the report. …
Developing countries now account for half of all anti-dumping actions, states a recent report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Between 1995 and 1999, which were the first five years of operation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), developing nations accounted for 47 per cent of …
the past few years have seen an alarming increase in the number of malaria cases. The World Health Organisation ( who ) puts the annual number of cases between 300-500 million, and deaths between 1.5-2.7 million. Controlling the disease has become difficult due to insecticide resistance in the mosquito and …
A UN Forum on Forests has been established by the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The forum has been set up to promote the management and conservation of all types of forests. It also aims for sustainable development. The forum will try to strengthen long-term political commitment of the …
At least 80 people have died in Uganda due to the deadly Ebola filovirus. "The number of people known to be infected with the deadly fever rose to 251, said Francis Omaswa,' the director general of Uganda's medical services. The disease has left maximum impact on the town of Gulu. …
To ensure that the South East Asian Region can have the best health care possible, the 53 session of World Health Organisation (WHO) for this region has made several recommendations. These include, insuring that no unfair disparities occur in providing healthcare to rich or poor people and enhancing health infrastructure. …
the tobacco industry has been secretly campaigning to wreck efforts by the World Health Organisation (who) to fight smoking, claims a recent report. Other allegations include that the industry tried to discredit the who and get its budgets cut and even that it secretly monitored meetings and obtained confidential documents. …
In a sharp criticism of rich multinational tobacco companies with strong political and economic influence, the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Gro Harlem Brundtland said they were the main obstacles in controlling the "tobacco epidemic' which accounts for 11,000 deaths a day. At the launch of World No-Tobacco …
cases of malaria are on the rise across the world. Malaria, transmitted by the Anopheles mosquitoes, kills over one million people and causes 300-500 million episodes of illness each year. Majority of the 3,000 deaths each day and 10 new cases each second occur in Africa. Malaria not only takes …
In Burma, there are an estimated 100,000 new tuberculosis cases each year. However, despite the crisis, the government is following the recommendations laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to decrease the threat. At the second national seminar on tuberculosis, minister for health Ket Sein said about 75 per …
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have called on the leaders of countries where polio still exists to give full cooperation to the global effort to eradicate the disease by the end of this year. "We are on the verge of an historic public …
Major drug companies have joined the World Bank (WB) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to keep research in anti-malarial drugs from winding up because of the drugs' poor commercial potential. Each year 300 million to 500 million people fall prey to malaria, and a million die, mostly in Africa. …
Somehow the tobacco industry has been with us for the last three months or so. When Dietrich Schwela, the World Health Organization's (who) urban health expert based in Geneva, came to participate in a workshop organised by the Centre for Science and Environment (cse) on urbanisation and environment, he repeatedly …
A handful of infectious diseases are responsible for 90 per cent of the deaths throughout the world, a study of the World Health Organisation (who) said recently. No more than six deadly infectious diseases
A team of scientists from the World Health Organisation (who) have begun their search for the Marburg virus in the jungles of eastern Congo. Earlier, laboratory tests showed that three out of nine samples of blood collected in the eastern Congo region in August had the Marburg virus, a relative …
Iraq has agreed to allow a United Nations (UN) team of experts into the country to remove toxic substances left behind in Baghdad by disarmament inspectors. UN secretary-general Kofi Annan's special envoy to Iraq, Prakash Shah, said Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, notified him of approval for the visit. …
A widely-available anti-malarial drug has been blamed for some of the military excesses committed by United Nations troops in Somalia. The drug, mefloquine, is recognised by the World Health Organisation as one of the most effective anti-malarial drugs. It is often used as a preventive treatment against the disease. Mefloquine …
When industry starts fooling the public what does one do? There is sufficient scientific evidence to show diesel fumes are particularly noxious for our health. We also know that we use an extraordinary large amount of very bad quality diesel. We even know that the standards for diesel emissions are …
OFFICIALS from the World Bank (wb) and the World Health Organisation (who) have reported that there has been little progress in the area of maternal mortality, mostly from easily preventable diseases. In developing countries, one in every 48 women dies from pregnancy-related omplications each year, compared to one in 4,000 …
According to a survey carried out by a group of young students from Nepal and Japan, water flowing in Bagmati river in the Jorpati region of Nepal is heavily polluted. The students were from fourth to ninth standards. The survey showed that the acid content in the water was higher …
