Tag: WHO Director-General

The study estimates that nearly 880 million adults and 159 million children lived with obesity in 2022.

As of 8 May, WHO said over 87,000 Mpox cases and 140 deaths have been reported from 111 countries.

“Meanwhile, since 2000, the number of people who experience financial hardship from out-of-pocket health spending has increased by a third, ...

Mpox was declared a global health emergency by the WHO in July 2022.

According to WHO, TB is the 13th leading cause of death and the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 (above ...

The report said twice as many males than females are killed each year as a result of injuries and violence.

The report warned that measles anywhere is a threat everywhere, noting that the virus can quickly spread to multiple communities ...

Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, said this in a statement on Friday.

Globally, as of 28 October 2022, there have been 626,337,158 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,566,610 deaths, reported to WHO.

The report indicates that an estimated 10.6 million people were diagnosed with TB in 2021, a 4.5 per cent increase ...

Mr Ghebreyesus noted that while infections are declining in some countries, “others are still seeing an increase and six countries ...

Mr Ghebreyesus also advised governments to implement contact tracing to help track the spread of the virus and to assist ...

WHO in its global epidemiological situation report on monkeypox, said since the beginning of May 2022, 3,040 cases have been ...

WHO had published guidelines on vaccination against Monkeypox and also published recommendations for governments regarding case detection and control of ...

He said as much as lasting solutions are required to end the wars wherever they may be happening, the only ...

“We have 185 days to finish the line of achieving 70 per cent by the start of July 2022, and ...

WHO says more people died from COVID-19 in 2021 than from HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined, in 2020.

“Unfortunately…we are now in the early stages of a third wave,” the WHO said.

"Children are often engaged by parents or caregivers in e-waste recycling because their small hands are more dexterous than those ...

WHO says only 0.5 per cent of vaccines had reached low-income countries where frontline health workers and the elderly have ...

The World Health Organisation says three-quarters of all COVID-19 vaccinations were only in 10 countries

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO had warned that smokers are at higher risk of developing severe disease ...

In recent years, there has been a global resurgence of measles, with ongoing outbreaks in all parts of the world.

The outbreak is the tenth of its kind reported in the country and has plagued the nation for almost two ...