The World Health Organisation(WHO) has launched its first guideline on self-care interventions for health. This move was in response to the fact that at least 400 million people worldwide lack access to the most essential health services. By 2035, there will be an estimated shortage of nearly 13 million healthcare workers. Around one in five […]
The World Health Organisation(WHO) has passed legislation that will no longer categorize being transgender as a mental disorder. The decision was taken following a major resolution to amend its health guidelines was approved earlier this week on May 25. According to the newly-updated version of the International Classification of Diseases (known as ICD-11), published by […]
The World Health Organisation has recently disclosed a new plan to cut reduce the deaths from snake bites and injuries, foreseeing that lack of antivenoms could lead to a “public health emergency” soon. Every year, nearly three million people are bitten by poisonous snakes, with an estimated 81,000-138,000 deaths. As per the WHO statistics, the […]
As part of the WHO’s initiative to better the quality of maternal and newborn healthcare, India has joined eight other nations. The Quality of Care(QoC) improvement network was launched by the WHO and other partners in February in the East African nation of Malawi. The only other Asian nation in the group is Bangladesh. The […]
In 2015, the number of premature deaths from diabetes, lung diseases, heart ailments and cancer has increased to 70 percent of all global deaths compared to 42 percent in 2012. As per WHO’s most recent assessment of non-communicable diseases, this poses a huge threat to the sustainable developments of nations. As for India, one in […]
A new framework to eliminate human rabies and save tens of thousands of lives each year has been launched today by WHO, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Alliance for the Control of Rabies (GARC). The framework calls for 3 key […]
Mexico unveiled the world’s first approved dengue vaccine. The approval followed two years of clinical trials worldwide on more than 40,000 patients ! According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), “nearly 40 percent of the world’s population (3.9 billion people) is at risk of contracting dengue.” Around 400 million people in more than 128 countries […]