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World Glaucoma Week is observed in March 7-13 each year. World Glaucoma Week is a global initiative of…

World Birth Defects Day (WBDD), observed on March 3 each year, unites people and organizations working in the…

KEY MESSAGES The number of people living with unaddressed hearing loss and ear diseases is unacceptable. Timely action…

World Hearing Day is an annual global advocacy event and the largest awareness campaign on that calls for…

El Salvador is first Central American country to achieve this status, third in all of the Americas in…

AstraZeneca/Oxford-developed vaccines to reach countries in the coming weeks 15 February 2021 The World Health Organization (WHO) listed…

5 February 2021 | GENEVA – The critical concentrations for culture-based phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) to first-line anti-TB drugs…

27 January 2021 | GENEVA – The definition of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has been revised by the World Health…

The Department of Drug Administration (DDA) has decided to approve ‘COVISHIELD’ COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in Nepal.…

WHO issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine and emphasizes need for equitable global access.…