Search Results:  World Health Organization  (31)

  • Statement from the first ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council meeting

    We acknowledge the urgency of catalysing a step-change in political support and financing for the ACT- Accelerator in order to enable it to deliver on its mission of accelerating the discovery and deployment of new COVID-19 tools to all people, everywhere.

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    Regions: Norway , South Africa

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

  • Coronavirus Global Response: Access to COVID-19 Tools-Accelerator Facilitation Council holds inaugural meeting

    Today Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, and Dr Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, co-hosted the inaugural meeting of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation Council.

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    Regions: Canada , China, France , Italy , Norway , Rwanda , South Africa , United Kingdom , Uzbekistan

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health

  • More than 3 billion people protected from harmful trans fat in their food

    Two years into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ambitious effort to eliminate industrially produced trans fats from the global food supply, the Organization reports that 58 countries so far have introduced laws that will protect 3.2 billion people from the harmful substance by the end of 2021. But more than 100 countries still need to take actions to remove these harmful substances from their food supplies.

    Consumption of industrially produced trans fats are estimated to cause arou

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    Regions: Canada , Iran , Nigeria , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health

  • Letter to malaria partners (September 2020)

    This letter will focus largely on WHO’s efforts to address the double challenge of malaria & COVID-19. Our work in recent months has been carried out in close collaboration with country-based experts and global partners. We are very grateful to all of our partners for their ongoing commitment and contributions.

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    Regions: Chad , China, France , Italy , Rwanda , Sierra Leone , United Kingdom

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

  • New research helps to increase understanding of the impact of COVID-19 for pregnant women and their babies

    Pregnant women with COVID-19 are less likely than non-pregnant women with COVID-19 to have symptoms, but more likely to need intensive care if severely ill – according to new findings

    New research findings published today in the BMJ help to shed light on the risks of COVID-19 for pregnant women and their babies. The paper suggests that pregnant women seen at the hospital with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 are less likely to

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    Regions: United Kingdom

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

  • Togo is first African country to end sleeping sickness as a public health problem

    Togo has received validation from the World Health Organization (WHO) for having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” as a public health problem, becoming the first country in Africa to reach this milestone.

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    Regions: Ghana , Togo , United Kingdom

    Topics: Global Health

  • World Mental Health Day: an opportunity to kick-start a massive scale-up in investment in mental health

    Joint release by the World Health Organization, United for Global Mental Health and the World Federation for Mental Health

    Mental health is one of the most neglected areas of public health. Close to 1 billion people are living with a mental disorder, 3 million people die every year from the harmful use of alcohol and one person dies every 40 seconds by suicide. And now, billions of people around the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is having a furth

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    Regions: Argentina, Peru , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Combating Drugs and Crime, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • Target product profiles for tuberculosis preventive treatment

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched target product profiles to drive the rapid development of novel tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment today. The target product profiles characterise the most important product attributes to be considered for developing the best suited TB prevention treatments in future.

    One quarter of the global population is estimated to be infected with TB and are at greater risk of developing TB disease, especially those with weakened immunity. Treatment of T

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    Regions: Canada , France , Italy , United Kingdom

    Topics: Global Health

  • 172 countries and multiple candidate vaccines engaged in COVID-19 vaccine Global Access Facility

    • Nine CEPI-supported candidate vaccines are part of the COVAX initiative, with a further nine candidates under evaluation, and procurement conversations on-going with additional producers not currently receiving research and development (R&D) funding through COVAX – giving COVAX the largest and most diverse COVID-19 vaccine portfolio in the world
    • 80 potentially self-financing countries have submitted non-binding expressions of interest to the Gavi-coor

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      Regions: Afghanistan, Argentina, Canada , Chile, China, France , Ireland , Norway , Tonga , United Kingdom , United States , West Bank , Zambia

      Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

    • International Youth Day 2020

      Meaningful youth engagement to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights  

      Every day, young people are enriching institutions and processes at the local, national, and global levels.  

      This year, the theme of International Youth Day is "Youth Engagement for Global Action

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      Regions: Turkey , United Kingdom

      Topics: Global Women's Issues

    • WHO Information Notice for Users of Medical Devices 2020/3

      Date: 7 August 2020

      Subject: Substandard/Falsified medical devices and personal protective equipment (PPE) used in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

      WHO-identifier: 2020/3, version 1

      Type of action: Advice to users of medical devices and PPE used for prevention, treatment and care for COVID-19.<

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      Regions: United Kingdom

      Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health

    • Statement on the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

      The fourth meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) took place on Friday, 31 July 2020 from 12:00 to 17:45 Geneva time (CEST). 

      Proceedings of the meeting

      Members and advisors of the Emergency Committee were convened by vid

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      Regions: United Kingdom

      Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

    • WHO statement on heated tobacco products and the US FDA decision regarding IQOS

      WHO takes this opportunity to remind Member States that are Parties to the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) of their obligations under the Convention. Heated tobacco products are tobacco products, meaning that the WHO FCTC fully applies to these products. (Decision FCTC/COP8(22)) Specifically, Article 13.4(a) obliges Parties, to prohibit "all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship that promote a tobacco product by any mean

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      Regions: United Kingdom

    • INFOSAN Quarterly Summary, 2020 #2

      During the second quarter of 2020, the INFOSAN Secretariat has been involved in 29 food safety incidents with 59 WHO Member States and two territories of WHO Member States. There were 13 biological hazard incidents (Salmonella [5], Listeria monocytogenes [3], Clostridium botulinum [2], Vibrio cholerae [1], and two involving an unspecified biological hazard), six with a chemical hazard (methanol [3], histamine [2] and patulin [1]), five involving an undeclared allergen (cashew and pistachio [1], sesame [1],

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      Regions: Australia , Cambodia , Canada , China, Dominican Republic , France , Hong Kong , Mexico , Singapore , United States

      Topics: Combating Drugs and Crime, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health

    • Framework for the evaluation of new tests for tuberculosis infection

      WHO and the Stop TB Partnership’s New Diagnostics Working Group (NDWG) launched today a framework for the evaluation of new tests for tuberculosis infection. The document provides details on study design, populations, reference standards, sample size calculation and data analysis to guide the future development of these tests.

      Approximately a quarter of th

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      Regions: Italy

      Topics: Global Health

    • Children are the key to behaviour change to reduce infection

      Schoolboy Yangyang was growing weaker by the day. When his symptoms worsened into diarrhoea and abdominal pain, his parents took him to the nearest hospital in Guangxi, southeastern China, where the doctor examined him on arrival and administered treatment. To confirm his suspicion, the doctor ordered a fecal examination. The result confirmed that Yangyang was suffering from a parasitic infection of the liver that can be caused by eating raw fish – a traditional dietary practice that has developed into a gr

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      Regions: China, United Kingdom

      Topics: Energy, Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

    • Study provides comprehensive view of terrestrial venomous snakes and snakebite in the Middle East

      Snakebite envenoming is a common problem in many parts of the world, but little is known about its magnitude in the Arab countries of the Middle East, where cases are not widely reported. The aim is to halve the numbers of deaths and cases of disability due to snakebite envenoming over the next 12 years through a programme that targets affected communities and their health systems, and by ensuring access to safe, effective treatment through increased cooperation, collaboration and partnership at all leve

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      Regions: Jordan , Kuwait , Syria , United Kingdom , Yemen

      Topics: Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

    • New COVID-19 Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for the global COVID-19 response

      Launching today, the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic. The goal is to ensure that laws protect the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities and that they adhere to international human rights standards.

      The new Lab (at www.COVIDLawLab.org) is a joint project of United Nations D

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      Regions: United Kingdom

      Topics: Climate and Environment, Combating Drugs and Crime, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation

    • WHO Director-General pays tribute to Spain’s sacrifices and leadership to confront COVID-19

      World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today joined the leadership of Spain, paying homage to those who have lost their lives in the country due to COVID-19, saluting the heroic efforts of heath workers and praising the government’s resolute and robust response to reverse the virus’s transmission.

      “It is with great respect that I join the King of Spain, the Prime Minister and the entire government of the country to pay tribute to the peop

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      Regions: Spain

      Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

    • Neglected tropical diseases of the skin: WHO launches mobile application to facilitate diagnosis

      A software application has been developed to make it easier for healthcare workers and the public to get instant, real-time information on the estimated ten neglected tropical diseases of the skin (also known as SkinNTDs).

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      Regions: France

      Topics: Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

    • More than 150 countries engaged in COVID-19 vaccine global access facility

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