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 …
The UN World Food Program (WFP) has called for more efforts to stop the high level of child stunting in semi-arid northeastern Uganda also known as Karamoja. Ryan Anderson, acting deputy WFP country director, told Xinhua in an interview on Friday that the stunting rates in the region of over …
Nigeria has approved a $150 million loan from the World Bank to help eradicate polio and scale up immunization, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Wednesday. After a global effort to wipe out polio, there were just 22 cases on earth last year, down from 350,000 30 years ago, according …
In the next decade, breast cancer cases could double in Africa if action is not taken, according to a study released on Wednesday by the University of Edinburgh. Researchers at the university examined a total of 41 previous studies across 22 African countries. They found that rates of this disease …
Soyo - A total of 27 malaria deaths were reported from January to June this year by health authorities in the province of Zaire, in a universe of 81,607 cases of malaria diagnosed in this period, Angop learnt on Wednesday in Soyo from a hospital source. According to the director …
The World Health Organization says experts are starting to carry out Ebola vaccinations in Congo's latest deadly outbreak. Health officials have warned that containing the outbreak is complicated by the presence of multiple armed groups in the northeast region that borders Uganda and Rwanda. Congo's health ministry says at least …
India ranked bottom of the list in the environmental health category, and ranked 178 out of 180 on air quality. The EPI found that air quality remains the leading environmental threat to public health. Seven months after India found itself among the bottom five countries on the Environmental Performance Index …
Another malaria case was reported on Tuesday taking the total count to 21 in Chandigarh. As per the Health Department here, 18 cases of dengue, 21 of malaria and two of chikungunya have been reported in the city. The fresh malaria case was reported from Mauli Jagran. Officials said they …
Jaipur: It’s shocking but true that in the state, 42% dengue cases were reported from Jaipur alone during the past eight months. In the last seven days, 22 dengue cases were reported across the state but 11 of them belonged to Jaipur. Not a single week has passed from January …
GURUGRAM: Three more cases of dengue have been confirmed in the city, taking the total count to four this season. While a 30-year-old man from Bhondsi village and a 17-year-old girl from Sun City area have been detected with dengue, another man in his 30s from Naurangpur village has been …
Cholera outbreak has resulted in the death of eleven persons in three villages located in Bebeji local government area in Kano state. According to witness accounts, 47 persons affected by the ailment are currently receiving treatment at a private medical facility located close to the affected villages. Comrade Ubale Dauda …
The World Health Organization says vaccinations are expected to begin this week, perhaps as early as Wednesday, to help stem the latest Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. WHO estimates put the number of confirmed and probable cases of Ebola at 43, including 34 deaths. The WHO …
With 34 fresh cases reported last week, the total number of malaria cases has reached at 207. On the other hand, the total number of people affected by dengue is 117 while the figure for chikungunya stands at 64, according to a data released by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation …
Gone are the days when you knew where the food you were eating was coming from, what with pretty much everything mass produced and packaged at distant locations, after a series of processes to ensure great shelf life. But with increasing incidences of lifestyle diseases, the average Indian has wisened …
Cuttack: Dengue patients continue to get admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital here with the disease affecting 233 people since July 15. In the past 21 days, on a daily basis more than 10 persons have been tested positive for dengue at the hospital. This has taken the number …
Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of microorganisms to stop an antimicrobial from working against it. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With a special focus on infection prevention and control, the state will soon unveil its antimicrobial resistance (AMR) action plan. Though the Health Department was in the process of finalising the action plan, it …
SHIMLA: Union health minister J P Nadda’s home district, Bilaspur, is grappling with epidemic prone diseases, with maximum cases of dengue and scrub typhus reported from Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh this year. Of the 611 dengue positive cases detected in the state so far, 314 are from Bilaspur while 277 …
The Minister of Health, Prof. Israel Adewole, on Monday launched a scheme, Alliance for Epidemic Preparedness and Response (A4EPR) aimed at getting the major stakeholders in health sector to combat infectious diseases. The launch which took place in Lagos was an initiative of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria …
When she discovered she was HIV-positive early this year, sex worker Evelyn Msipa, 32, was alone in her rented apartment in Zimbabwe's capital Harare. She wept on seeing the result from the self-testing kit she had used, then rushed to a local health centre where she received counselling before the …
Health workers in Congo were setting up refrigerators on Monday to keep cool an Ebola vaccine needed to tackle an outbreak suspected to have infected 43 people, the health ministry said. Giving the latest figures on the epidemic, which was declared just days after an outbreak in northwestern Congo 2,500 …
Ebola is suspected to have caused as many as 33 deaths during the latest outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the health ministry said. Thirteen cases of the virus were confirmed across northeastern North Kivu province and neighbouring Ituri province, DRC's health minister said in …
