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  • 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

  • COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn

    With the number of under-five deaths at an all-time recorded low of 5.2 million in 2019, disruptions in child and maternal health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at stake

    The number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record in 2019 – down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990,

    WHO convenes expert group for behaviour change

The World Health Organization convened its first Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world that public health agencies and experts need a better understanding of how people and societies behave and make decisions in relation to their health," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, to whom the Technical Advisory Group will report. "WHO wants to ensure that such understanding and evid

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • In WHO global pulse survey, 90% of countries report disruptions to essential health services since COVID-19 pandemic

    WHO to roll out learning and monitoring tools to improve service provision during pandemic

    The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a first indicative survey on the impact of COVID-19 on health systems based on 105 countries’ reports. Data collected from five regions over the period from March to June 2020 illustrate that almost every country (90%) experi

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  • 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

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

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