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New WHO report shows TB has overtaken COVID-19 as leading infectious disease killer in 2023

Oct 30, 2024, at 07:54 pm

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday published a new report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023 – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995.

Half the world now following doctors’ orders on cutting trans fats, says WHO

Jun 25, 2024, at 07:12 pm

A total of 53 countries had best practice policies in place for tackling industrial trans fats in food as of last year, vastly improving the food environment for 3.7 billion people, or 46 per cent of the world’s population, according to a milestone report published by the UN World Health Organization on Monday.

UN tuberculosis summit ‘historic opportunity’ to put response ‘back on track’: new WHO report

Sep 19, 2018, at 08:49 am

New York, Sept 19 (IBNS): Countries are not doing enough to end tuberculosis – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – by 2030, warned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, at the release of the latest Global Tuberculosis Report.

14 of world's 15 most polluted cities belong to India: WHO report

May 03, 2018, at 05:20 am

New Delhi, May 2 (IBNS): India has 14 out of 15 most polluted cities in the world in terms of PM 2.5 concentrations, the WHO global air pollution database released in Geneva for 2016 early on Wednesday revealed.