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The United Nations says climate change has spurred close to doubling of natural disasters in the last 2 decades, the effect of which has led to extreme weather conditions, especially worsening wildfires, droughts and heatwaves. This is according to a…

The World Health Organization has alarmed over the increasing number of new global Covid19 infections as it calls on governments to re-enforce measures to protect their populations. The head of the agency, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus says the majority of…

The first joint stillbirth estimates released by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank Group and the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs show that almost 2 million babies are stillborn every…

The World Health Organization WHO, on Monday, began a 2-day executive board meeting session on the current global covid19 pandemic response to follow up on the WHA73.1 resolution approved by the Member States earlier in May. The meeting will provide…

Human Rights Watch says hundreds of thousands of people with mental health conditions are shackled around the world. It says in a new report released on Tuesday that men, women, and children, some as young as 10, are chained or…

The World Health Organisation says COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted or halted critical mental health services in 93% of countries worldwide while the demand for mental health is increasing.  It says 130 countries provides the first global data showing the devastating…

As the world commemorates the Breast Cancer Awareness month, women in low-income countries have been urged to regularly screen for cases of cancer.  Statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicates that in 2018, there was an estimated 2.1 million…

The World Health Organization has launched its first data portal that brings together in one place data on global indicators for monitoring the health and well-being of people aged 60 and over. This is in commemoration of the International day…