November 2016 ReasonFoundation; The World Health Organization estimates that smoking kills nearly six million people a year world-wide, and the death toll has continued to rise since it set up the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2005. So it’s dismaying that the WHO continues to advocate that vaping products, …
Read More »KENYA: Organ Failure – Patients Waiting Endlessly for Donors
October 2016 EastAfrican; Sixteen-year-old Sumeiya Abdi has not been in school since 2013. She is among the patients hooked onto the 20 dialysis machines at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi — the country’s chief referral and teaching institution — to help them manage acute and chronic kidney disease. Acute …
Read More »WHO – 90 Percent of World’s Population Breathe Dirty Air
September 2016 Aljazeera; Nine out of 10 people globally live in places with poor air quality, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, blaming a worldwide air pollution crisis for being a major factor in millions of deaths per year. In a new report released on Tuesday, the health agency …
Read More »Global Leaders Move Against Antimicrobial Resistance
September 2016 WHOMediaCentre; World leaders today signalled an unprecedented level of attention to curb the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) happens when bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi develop resistance against medicines that were previously able to cure them. For the first time, Heads …
Read More »Violence, Injuries Kill 5 Million People Per Year – WHO Official
September 2016 DailyMonitor; Experts from over 100 countries around the globe have convened at Tampere, Finland, for the 12th World Conference on Injury prevention and safety Promotion. According to Dr Etienne Krug, Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Department for the Management of Non communicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and …
Read More »East African Countries Create Fund to Support Dr. Tedros’s WHO Bid
September 2016 DrTedros; East African countries have thrown their weight behind the African Union’s candidate for the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, in a major way. Multiple countries have joined together in creating a fund to support Dr. Tedros’s candidacy in the election for the next Director General of …
Read More »SOUTH SUDAN: WHO and partners battle multiple disease outbreaks in South Sudan
September 2016 WHONews; In a conflict setting, WHO and partners are responding to multiple outbreaks including cholera, malaria, measles, suspected hemorrhagic fever, and kala-azar. “In spite of the insecurity, WHO is taking every opportunity to ensure that we reach the people with health care services to protect them at this …
Read More »Universal Health Coverage Requires Action, Funding By Govts – Report
September 2016 newtimes; Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) for communicable diseases in Africa will hit a snag unless more efforts are put in both government action and funding, according to a new report. The report, dubbed ‘Universal Health Coverage: A Framework for Action in Africa’, also reveals that total health …
Read More »UN Health Agency Names Michael Bloomberg Global Ambassador On Noncommunicable Diseases
August 2016 UNnews; The World Health Organization (WHO) today named Michael R. Bloomberg, former New York City mayor and philanthropist, as its Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs). These diseases, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, and injuries are responsible for 43 million deaths each year …
Read More »UGANDA: Govt to Stop Oral Polio Vaccine
July 2016 theObserver; The oral polio vaccine, OPV, will be off the shelves in three years’ time, government has said, because it has side effects. Government will switch to the safer injectable polio vaccine (IPV). “By 2020, we will stop giving out OPV to children because it has side effects …
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