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More than 30-year difference in life expectancy highlights health inequities

·May 6, 2025·1 min read

The study by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals that they can be responsible for a dramatic reduction in life expectancy in both rich and poor countries alike. For example, people living in the country with the highest life expectancy will on average live 33 years longer than those born...

WHO chief laments most disruptive cuts to global health funding ‘in living memory’

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·May 5, 2025·1 min read

“We are living through the greatest disruption to global health financing in memory,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He cautioned that abrupt withdrawals of funding are jeopardising hard-won medical progress, including efforts to combat tropical diseases, which are now re-emerging in some regions. “This is just the tip...

Health, education, opportunity at stake, amid stubborn digital gender divide

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·April 24, 2025·2 min read

Closing this gap is not optional. There were189 million fewer women than men online in 2024. The disparity is about more than access, it reflects deeper systemic barriers, according to Doreen Bogdan-Martin who heads the UN telecommunications agency, ITU. “That’s too many missed opportunities to learn, to earn and...

Israeli strike on hospital ‘further cripples’ Gaza’s fragile health system

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·April 21, 2025·1 min read

Several staff members, including two nurses, were injured in the strike on the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Younis according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health and health agencies, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at the regular news briefing in New York. The incident follows a separate strike on Sunday...

WHO warns of severe disruptions to health services amid funding cuts

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·April 14, 2025·1 min read

Speaking on Thursday at a press conference in Geneva, Tedros said that in around 25 per cent of countries, some health facilities have had to close completely due to cuts, according to figures from more than 100 countries compiled by WHO. Severe disruptions Out-of-pocket payments for health services have led to...

Preventable ‘meningitis belt’ deaths targeted in health agency action plan

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·April 11, 2025·1 min read

People anywhere, at any age can be infected with meningitis, which is transmitted through respiratory secretions or droplets in close human contact. Low and middle-income nations are worst-affected. The so-called “meningitis belt” in sub-Saharan Africa sees most cases and outbreaks. It stretches from Senegal and The Gambia in the...

Dangers grow for Myanmar quake survivors, health system ‘overwhelmed’

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·April 8, 2025·2 min read

Ten days after a 7.7 magnitude quake levelled buildings and buckled bridges across central Myanmar, the latest death toll has passed 3,500 and is “likely to rise”, said Titon Mitra, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Representative in the country, speaking from the devastated city of Mandalay. He said that the...

World Health Day: Focusing on women’s physical and mental health around the world

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·April 6, 2025·6 min read

Close to 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 are stillborn, says the World Health Organization (WHO) which is kicking off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. The...

World News in Brief: Cholera surges worldwide, DR Congo update, WHO leads global health emergency exercise

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·April 5, 2025·3 min read

The UN health agency registered almost 810,000 cases and 5,900 deaths from the preventable disease in 2024; that’s about 50 per cent higher than the previous year, according to Dr Philippe Barboza, who leads WHO’s cholera team. He said the latest reported cases are almost certainly underestimates and that the...

47 million health workers and advocates call for cleaner air to curb pollution deaths

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·March 31, 2025·5 min read

The Second WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health co-hosted by the World Health Organization and Colombia, in the city of Cartagena, brought together over 700 participants from 100 countries – including heads of state, ministers, scientists, and civil society groups — to accelerate action to curb what’s increasingly...

WHO gives clean bill of health to cities taking action on preventable diseases

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·March 23, 2025·1 min read

Córdoba in Argentina, Fortaleza in Brazil and Manchester in the UK picked up accolades at a healthy cities summit, co-hosted by the UN World Health Organization (WHO), Bloomberg Philanthropies and Vital Strategies. The Argentinian city won recognition for its policy to eliminate sugary and artificially sweetened drinks – along with...

Afghanistan: Security Council renews UN mission as WHO warns of health catastrophe

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·March 18, 2025·3 min read

Unanimously adopting resolution 2777 (2025), the 15-member council stressed the “critical importance” of a continued presence of UNAMA and other UN agencies across Afghanistan. The council also expressed appreciation for the UN’s long-term commitment to the country and its people, reiterating its full support for UNAMA and the Special Representative...