Health

In addition, unprecedented aid reductions have made global progress to end maternal risk deaths, United Nations agencies have warned in a new report that calls for larger investments in midwives and other health workers. THE Maternal mortality trends The report was published by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the […]

People everywhere, at any age, can be infected with meningitis, which is transmitted by respiratory secretions or droplets in narrow human contact. Low and intermediate income nations are the least affected. The so-called “meningitis belt” in sub-Saharan Africa sees most cases and epidemics. It extends from Senegal and Gambia west of the continent to East

Near 300,000 women continue to die during pregnancy or childbirth each year. More than two million babies die in their first month of life and around two million more died, explains the World Health Organization (WHO) which launches a one-year campaign on maternal and newborn health. The data is added to a preventable death every

The United Nations health agency recorded nearly 810,000 cases and 5,900 deaths by preventable disease in 2024; It is about 50% more than the previous year, according to Dr. Philippe Barboza, who directs Who’s Cholera Team. He said the last reported cases are almost certainly underestimated and that the disease continues to affect countries that

It has been almost two years since the brutal war between the forces of the military government in Khartoum and the rapid support forces broke out, triggering one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Human rights violations have been committed on both sides and more than 30.4 million Sudanese requires urgent assistance, with

The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, calls for a renewed commitment to create a more equal and inclusive world in his message marking World Autistic Awareness Day on Tuesday. This year theme – Advance neurodiversity and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – highlights the intersection between neurodiversity and global efforts of sustainability. The

The second WHO world conference on air pollution and health co -organized by the World Health Organization and Colombia, in the City of Cartagena, brought together more than 700 participants from 100 countries – including heads of state, ministers, scientists and civil society groups – to accelerate action to slow down what is more and

Malnutrition’s growth in childhood growth is a global but avoidable problem, if an adequate investment can be found, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said in the midst of chronic financing shortages that threaten essential food programs.

The number of deaths for those under five was 4.8 million in 2023 – a significant drop – the dough dead marginally falling to around 1.9 million, the data published by the UN show. Despite this, decades of progress harshly won in the survival of children are threatened due to financing reductions, challenges of the

“We will see a … real increase in this disease – [we] I will see him come back and We see people who died as we saw them in the 90s and the 2000s“Said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, indicating a” increase ten times “compared to the 600,000 deaths related to AIDS recorded worldwide