by Admin - 2 weeks ago
The “Living with the Times” toolkit contains illustrated posters with key messages for older adults on how to maintain their well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, while supporting those around them at the same time. Thanks to their uni...
by Admin - 2 weeks ago
Expert working group (EWG) on Biodiversity, Climate, One Health and Nature-based Solutions, established by WHO, IUCN and FEBA.
by Admin - 2 weeks ago
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, has appointed Mr Carl Bildt as WHO Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator). In his role as WHO Special Envoy for the ACT-Accelerator, Carl Bildt will help lead...
by Admin - 2 weeks ago
Currently the VSN has 95 member websites from all 6 WHO regions, from 42 countries, providing vaccine safety information in 36 languages.You are invited to visit the VSN portal& and use the internal search engine to find reliable information on vacci...
by Admin - 2 weeks ago
The report of the international team on their Wuhan field visit, from 14 January -10 February 2021, was published today as WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for further studies.The report stems from a Member State resolution a...
by Admin - 2 weeks ago
The main goal of a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response would be to foster a comprehensive, multi-sectoral approach to strengthen national, regional and global capacities and resilience to future pandemics.
by Admin - 3 weeks ago
This WHO Medical Product Alert refers to falsified COVID-19 Vaccine identified as “BNT162b2” detected in Mexico in February 2021 and recently confirmed as falsified to the WHO. The falsified product was supplied and administered to patients outside a...
by Admin - 3 weeks ago
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered devastating consequences for human life and the global economy. Maritime and air transport are two essential activities that underpin global trade and mobility and are key to a sustainable socio-econo...
by Admin - 3 weeks ago
The COVAX Facility has notified participating economies that deliveries of doses from the Serum Institute of India (SII) will be delayed in March and April& Delays in securing supplies of SII-produced COVID-19 vaccine doses are due to the increased...
by Admin - 3 weeks ago
The report, “Health and economic impacts of transport interventions in Accra,” shows how premature deaths can be averted through a multi-sectoral approach towards sustainable transport.
by Admin - 3 weeks ago
Côte d'Ivoire has successfully eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, also known as “sleeping sickness”, as a public health problem, becoming the second African country after Togo to be validated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
by Admin - 3 weeks ago
In the run up to World TB Day,& WHO has released new data from over 84 countries on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the TB response, and launched new guidelines on systematic TB screening to help countries bridge the gap in diagnosis and care...
by Admin - 3 weeks ago
New guidelines released by the World Health Organization(WHO) update several recommendations on the systematic screening of tuberculosis(TB) disease. This will help national TB programmes, public and private healthcare providers, funders and other st...
by Admin - 3 weeks ago
The World Health Organization is calling for action to address quality of care in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable (FCV) settings, with the release of a technical package on this subject.
by Admin - 3 weeks ago
Amid a worsening humanitarian situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, reports of indiscriminate and targeted attacks against civilians, including rape and other horrific forms of sexual violence, continue to surface. This must stop.We call on all...