The World Health Organization (WHO) said that COVID-19, rising poverty, and worsening humanitarian crises intensified the pressure on the overstretched maternity and newborn health services which...
Speaking at the G20 meeting in Goa, WHO's India Representative Dr Roderico Ofrin applauds India’s work on the health front, says, countries can learn from India
The COVID-19 crisis has shown that investments in UHC and health system resilience underpin not just health, but social and economic security, as well as the...
As of 3 January, 773 sequences from mainland China have been submitted to the GISAID EpiCoV database, with the majority (564 sequences) collected after 1 December...
Three years after its emergence in China's Wuhan, exactly how SARS-CoV-2 first emerged as a respiratory pathogen capable of sustained human-to-human transmission remains the subject of...
The high-level meeting was held in view of the sudden rise in coronavirus cases in the United States, China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Brazil, France,...
As per WHO, in the South-East Asia Region, an estimated 1 in 7 people lived with a mental health condition, and in countries where data are...
The Regional Committee adopted numerous resolutions to accelerate progress against non-communicable diseases and to promote social involvement to strengthen primary health care
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that the impact of health emergencies is not just limited to health, but has affected economies and social welfare of the...
WHO regional director Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh said that increasing investment in mental health reduces treatment costs and increases productivity of an individual
WHO’s Soumya Swaminathan on why the national capital is seeing a rise in hospitalisation for COVID and what it means
According to WHO, monkeypox is a viral zoonosis -- a virus transmitted to humans from animals -- with symptoms similar to smallpox although clinically less severe.
