A new United Nations health agency report also shows that in Europe in 2023, six in 10 doctors trained outside the region, while the number is even higher for nurses.
In light of these results – and the fact that many countries in the west and northern Europe become “strongly dependent” of these foreign workers – the WHO calls for a fairer and more lasting migration of health workers.
Gaps in terms of home health care
Who is Dr. Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat said that each migrant doctor or nurse leaves “pressure on national families and health systems they have left behind.”
By 2030, Europe should have a deficit of nearly a million health workers, the United Nations agency said.
He noted that Romania has succeeded in reducing the number of doctors leaving the country in recent years, from 1,500 to 461, mainly by offering better conditions of remuneration, training and labor.
“ Index index ‘shows the top of Switzerland, because China does the top 10
Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, the Republic of Korea and Singapore are the most innovative countries in the world.
It is according to the United Nations Agency, the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, whose global innovation index 2025 shows that the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark are also in the Top 10-with China for the first time.
In other results, WIPO said that the growth in innovation investments slows down, “darken” future forecasts on intellectual property trends.
Middle income climbers
About 80 indicators are used for the United Nations report, ranging from research to research and development, in venture capital agreements, high-tech exports and intellectual property deposits.
The latest WIPO report shows that the intermediate income savings led by China, India (38th) and Türkiye (43rd) – continued to climb the scale of innovation by transforming ideas into reality.
Over the past five years, however, it was Saudi Arabia (46th), Qatar (48th), Brazil (52nd), Maurice (53rd), Bahrain (62nd) and Jordan (65th), who have made the fastest progress.
The report finds that Nigeria has not protected women and girls
Nigeria has failed to prevent targeted attacks against schools, to criminalize abduction and marital rape – and on the protection of schoolgirls against kidnapping and stigmatization, according to a new report from a key body of independent United Nations experts who monitor discrimination against women.
Repeated failure “is equivalent to systematic and serious violations”, women and girls’ rights, said the President of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Cedaw), Nahla Haidar on Wednesday.
The report was published Wednesday after a mission in the country in December 2023, where the members of the committee met with officials of various departments and agencies, armed forces and police representatives – and victims of kidnapping.
Chibok kidnapping
The mission initially received information on the mass kidnapping of 276 girls at the Chibok school by Boko Haram in 2014. Eighty-two escaped, 103 were released in exchange for prisoners, while at least 91 are still in captivity, their fate is unknown.
The CEDAW delegation was the first United Nations organization to have visited the school since the kidnapping, according to school staff.
“The abduction of Chibok’s girls was not an isolated tragedy, but part of a mass kidnapping series targeting schools and communities,” said Haidar.
She added that “at least 1,400 students have been kidnapped from schools since the kidnapping of Chibok”.
The solar screen restored to the essential WHO on essential drugs praised as a life buoy for people with albinism
Independent UN experts welcomed the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) to restore a sunscreen to its lists of essential drugs – those who meet the priority health needs of the populations.
They described this decision as “an important development in the long struggle to attract attention and find practical, effective and lasting remedies for unnecessary deaths caused by skin cancer in people with albinism”.
Skin cancer is the main cause of death for people with albinism worldwide – a preventable tragedy, experts have stressed, linked to poor conscience, limited access to sunscreen and slow institutional and government responses.
Rescue
They pointed out that WHO’s decision could “transform the daily life of people with albinism, including life expectancy”, but warned that its impact will depend on the political will of governments and the commitment to integrate sunscreen into national health systems and supply chains.
“Supply and access to sunscreen for people with albinism is not a cosmetic exercise. It is a fundamental human right,” said experts.
The WHO’s decision also complies with the international obligations of states to prevent foreseeable human rights damage resulting from climate change and to protect the most affected by disproportion.
