Health

Each year, more than 21 million adolescent girls in low and intermediate income countries fall pregnant. About half of these pregnancies are not intentioned. Nine out of 10 adolescents occur in girls who have married before they were 18 years old. “Early pregnancies can have serious physical and psychological consequences for girls and young women,” […]

Developed after more than three years of negotiations under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), the project describes a framework to strengthen international collaboration, equity and resilience in the face of future health threats. “”Nations of the world have made history in Geneva today“Said the director general of the OMS Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

With fighting not showing any signs of extremely limited slowdown and humanitarian access, the crisis in Sudan has become one of the largest emergencies in the world, the office of the High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Monday. “This is a very, very sad step,” said Mamadou Dian Balde, regional director of UNHCR for

Several staff members, including two nurses, were injured during the Khan Younis Koweti Field Hospital strike, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health and Health, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, told journalists in the regular drop in New York. The incident follows a separate strike on Sunday at the Arab hospital Al-Ahli in Gaza City, which

Speaking Thursday at a press conference in Geneva, Tedros said that in around 25% of countries, some health establishments had to close completely due to cuts, according to figures from more than 100 countries compiled by WHO. Serious disturbances Direct payments for health services have led to disturbances in the supply of drugs and other

Monday, the representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), Rik Peeperkorn, said PK Press Club On the desperate conditions he had seen in Al-Ahli before the attack, and to a severe restriction on the movement which prevents thousands of people evacuated for medical treatment outside Gaza. “I was in Gaza several weeks ago and I

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