Trump weighs restoring partial US funding to WHO
May 16, 2020, at 08:04 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was considering restoring 10 percent of US funding to the World Health Organization that was frozen in April.
Covid-19: Cases in Germany surpass 1,66,000
May 07, 2020, at 01:44 pm
Berlin/UNI: The total number of Covid-19 cases in Germany have reached 166,091 since the start of the pandemic as 1,284 new cases were registered over the past 24 hours, confirmed the Robert Koch Institute said on Thursday.
US has not shared evidence proving coronavirus originated in Wuhan labs: WHO
May 05, 2020, at 05:26 pm
Geneva/IBNS: World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Program chief said on Monday that it has not received any evidence from US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the novel coronavirus could have originated in a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city which first reported the emergence of the deadly virus last year, said media reports.
May 05, 2020, at 04:02 pm
Brussels/IBNS: Stressing on a comprehensive and coordinated effort to develop medicines to deal with COVID-19, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the most massive public health effort in history since it is an interconnected world where “none of us is safe until all of us are safe”.
China rejects international investigation demand into the origins of coronavirus: Report
Apr 26, 2020, at 04:16 pm
London/IBNS: China has rejected demands for an independent international investigation to trace the roots of novel coronavirus, which has claimed over two lakh (two hundred thousand) lives across the globe and forced the world to go under an unprecedented lockdown, a BBC report said.
UN condemns killing of WHO staffer in Myanmar transporting COVID-19 samples
Apr 22, 2020, at 01:32 pm
New York/IBNS: A World Health Organization (WHO) worker has been killed while driving a vehicle carrying COVID-19 samples in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, the United Nations country office confirmed in a statement on Tuesday.
Taiwan makes public December email to WHO showing caution about COVID-19 outbreak
Apr 17, 2020, at 03:02 pm
Taipei/IBNS: Giving more fuel to the suspicion of the World Health Organisation (WHO)'s collusion with China over the COVID-19 outbreak, Taiwan has recently released an email which was sent to the organisation cautioning it of the pandemic virus.
Halting funding for WHO during a health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds:Gates
Apr 15, 2020, at 11:30 am
Washington/IBNS: Hours after US President Donald Trump announced that he has instructed his administration to stop US funding for the World Health Organization (WHO), tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates on Wednesday said halting such a fund during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds.
Donald Trump directs administration to halt US funding for WHO
Apr 15, 2020, at 09:36 am
Washington/Sputnik/UNI: President Donald Trump announced that he has instructed his administration to stop US funding for the World Health Organization (WHO), which he accused of grossly mismanaging and covering up the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Testing, tracing, and when to lift restrictions: WHO’s latest advice
Apr 14, 2020, at 01:46 pm
New York/IBNS: The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), outlined his agency’s latest advice to countries on Monday in a statement, stressing that a mix of social distancing, testing, contact tracing and isolation, will be crucial to further curb the spread of the new coronavirus already devastating much of the globe.
Apr 10, 2020, at 05:43 pm
Beijing/IBNS: With China claiming that it is significantly recovering from COVID-19 crisis while other nations, including the UK and the US are struggling to contain the virus, some experts believe Beijing is trying to exploit the situation to its own advantage.
No need to politicize COVID-19: UN health agency chief
Apr 09, 2020, at 12:16 pm
New York/IBNS: The COVID-19 pandemic should not be politicized as unity is the “only option” to defeat the disease, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
WHO Chief says received death threats over coronavirus response
Apr 09, 2020, at 02:59 am
Geneva/Sputnik: The chief of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia, said Wednesday he had faced death threats and racist insults over the UN health agency's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Donald Trump blasts WHO for being 'China-centric'
Apr 07, 2020, at 11:52 pm
Washington/IBNS: At a time when the United States is reeling under the threat from the highly contagious novel Coronavirus, which claimed 11,830 lives in the country, President Donald Trump has hit out at the World Health Organization (WHO) for being 'China-centric' and giving 'faulty recommendations'.
COVID-19 death toll: Over 3300 dead, says WHO
Mar 07, 2020, at 03:23 pm
Geneva/UNI: The World Health Organisation on Saturday confirmed that a total of 3380 people have so far lost their lives, worldwide, due to the deadly novel coronavirus which was first detected in China's Wuhan in late December and later spread across the world.
One third of poorer countries face both undernutrition and obesity: WHO report
Dec 16, 2019, at 09:56 am
New York/IBNS: With one in three low and middle-income countries facing the two extremes of malnutrition – undernutrition and obesity – the UN’s health agency WHO is calling for a new approach to deal with rapidly changing food systems.
One person dies by suicide every 40 seconds: new UN health agency report
Sep 10, 2019, at 09:51 am
New York: Despite progress in national prevention strategies, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General lamented on Monday, highlighting key findings of the agency’s latest report on global suicide estimates.
Clashes near Libya's Tripoli leave over 1,000 people killed over 3 months: WHO
Jul 09, 2019, at 05:26 pm
Moscow, Jul 9 (Sputnik) Clashes between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) near the country's capital of Tripoli have left over 1,000 people killed and over 5,500 people injured over three months, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Libya said on Tuesday.
Jun 07, 2019, at 10:05 am
New York, June 7 (IBNS): Unsafe food kills an estimated 420,000 people every year, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, just ahead of the first-ever UN World Food Safety Day. Children under-five are the most at risk, carrying 40 per cent of the foodborne disease burden, amounting to 125,000 deaths every year.
Eye care for Ebola survivors being provided by local ophthalmologists
Apr 11, 2019, at 09:42 pm
WHO, Apr 11 (IBNS): In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local ophthalmologists are learning to provide specialized care to Ebola survivors, WHO reports said.
Ramped-up emergency preparedness, part of ‘changing the DNA’ of the UN’s health agency
Mar 07, 2019, at 09:22 am
New York, Mar 7 (IBNS): Better preparing itself to respond to emergency situations is just one of a sweeping range of changes the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday to further improve its role as the world’s leading authority on public health.
New French study shows baby diapers contain harmful chemicals
Jan 31, 2019, at 11:00 pm
Toronto, Jan 31 (IBNS): A new French study, conducted by Anses, which is a French agency in charge of food, environmental, and occupation health and safety, published last week that diapers contain harmful substances including carcinogen, as classified by the World Health Organization (WHO), media reports said.
Crucial medical supplies airlifted to north-east Syria to meet ‘desperate need’
Jan 24, 2019, at 08:41 am
New York, Jan 24 (IBNS): In response to the growing health needs of people in north-east Syria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has airlifted urgent medical supplies to the region, for the second time this month.
First-ever World Braille Day underscores importance of written language for human rights
Jan 04, 2019, at 09:16 am
New York, Jan 4 (IBNS): To raise awareness of the importance of Braille for approximately 1.3 billion people living with some form of distance or near vision impairment, on Friday the United Nations is observing the first official World Braille Day.
‘Repeated attacks’ could close down key hospital in eastern Libya, says WHO
Dec 28, 2018, at 08:36 am
New York, Dec 28 (IBNS): The World Health Organization (WHO) has strongly condemned an armed attack in Al Jala Hospital in Libya’s second-largest city of Benghazi, which took place on Tuesday, warning that further assaults could shutter the key facility.
Road injuries leading cause of death for the young, despite safety gains: UN report
Dec 08, 2018, at 06:41 am
New York, Dec 8 (IBNS): Latest statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO reveal that 1.35 million people die on the roads each year, while road traffic injuries are now the leading cause of death among young people, according to new statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO).
UN-led tobacco control advocates denounce ‘increasingly vicious’ industry interference
Oct 05, 2018, at 08:49 am
New York, Oct 5 (IBNS): Tobacco giants are adopting new ways and “disguises” to push their products, noxious both for people and the environment, and interfere with government efforts to regulate the sale and use of tobacco, the head of the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC, the United Nations-led tobacco control treaty, has told UN News.
May 19, 2018, at 01:12 pm
New York, May 19 (IBNS): An emergency meeting of United Nations health experts said on Friday that the Ebola outbreak in north-west Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – where cases of the deadly disease have been confirmed in an urban area – does not yet meet the criteria to be deemed a “public health emergency of international concern.”
Dangers persist for nearly a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: WHO
May 09, 2018, at 02:11 pm
New York, May 9 (IBNS): Renewed efforts are underway in Bangladesh to protect nearly one million Myanmar refugees from cholera, amid a warning from the UN health agency on Tuesday that “we’re not out of the woods yet”.
‘Bad’ fats targeted in new global health guidelines
May 05, 2018, at 01:31 pm
New York, May 5 (IBNS): People everywhere need to cut down on their consumption of artery-clogging fatty foods, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging, in a new report released on Friday.