Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, warns the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first World Report on Hearing, released…
Geneva, Switzerland--19 February 2021-- At the halfway point in the World Health Organization and Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ 100-day challenge, a movement of people and…
OSLO (Reuters) - Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the World Health Organization and climate campaigner Greta Thunberg are among those nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, all backed by…
Indian capital records highest single day rise in cases as monitor says pollution is at 14 times WHO safe level.
Delhi’s 20 million residents are facing a double health crisis as high levels of…
Climate crisis exacerbates extreme weather during natural events, say experts.
La Niña climate event is under way, heralding a colder and stormier winter than usual across the northern hemisphere,…
Lawsuit claims mining firm failed to prevent pollution in Kabwe, affecting multiple generations.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against the mining company Anglo American over its alleged…
A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that the state cannot put a cancer warning on the label of the popular herbicide Roundup, as The Associated Press reported.
To meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets by 2030, countries must safeguard the gains already attained and accelerate efforts to achieve affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern…
Agencies call for joint effort to safely deliver routine immunization and proceed with vaccination campaigns against deadly vaccine-preventable diseases.
Report from UN World Food Programme and others warns 265m people are facing acute risk.
The coronavirus crisis will push more than a quarter of a billion people to the brink of starvation unless…
Africa has passed the grim milestone of 10,000 reported cases of coronavirus, along with more than 500 deaths, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDC).
As the daily…
The coronavirus pandemic may lead to a deeper understanding of the ties that bind us on a global scale.
Well-resourced healthcare systems are essential to protect us from health security threats,…
IIED director Andrew Norton looks at some of the emerging impacts of the coronavirus outbreak, and discusses the possible longer-term effects of the pandemic.
Coronavirus was declared a pandemic by…
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The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs launched a Consolidated Global Humanitarian Appeal to support approximately 40 vulnerable countries in fighting COVID-19.
We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said is “attacking societies at their core, claiming…
Climate change and infectious diseases
Today, worldwide, there is an apparent increase in many infectious diseases, including some newly-circulating ones (HIV/AIDS, hantavirus, hepatitis C, SARS,…
Real-time training during global emergencies is critical for effective preparedness and response.
The OpenWHO Massive Online Open Courses for COVID-19 provide learning resources for health…
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