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Uneven access to health services drives life expectancy gaps: WHO

Uneven access to health services drives life expectancy gaps: WHO. Uneven access to health services drives life expectancy…

April 5, 2019

World Health Statistics 2019: Monitoring health for the SDGs

The World Health Statistics series is the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) annual compilation of health statistics for its…

April 5, 2019

5 Years of Polio-free WHO South-East Asia Region

On March 27, WHO South-East Asia Region was certified polio-free, proving wrong many public health experts who believed…

March 28, 2019

World Tuberculosis Day Observed with theme “It’s Time”

On the occasion of World Tuberculous (TB) Day 2019, Honorable Minister of Health and Population, Upendra Yadav, launched…

March 24, 2019

New WHO recommendations to accelerate progress on TB

WHO has issued new guidance to improve treatment of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB). WHO is recommending shifting to fully…

March 22, 2019

Report of the Study on Early Impacts of the Expanded Global Gag Rule in Nepal

Expanded Global Gag Rule impacting the availability of reproductive and sexual health care services, undermining the progress Nepal…

March 8, 2019

Global health leaders adopt Delhi Declaration on digital health

New Delhi, 27 February 2019: Ministers and government officials from over 35 countries committed to accelerate and implement…

February 27, 2019

Lawmakers demand health insurance for all

Lawmakers today registered a proposal of urgent public importance in the House of Representatives, stating that the government…

February 27, 2019

Kenya now eliminates maternal and neonatal tetanus

Kenya has attained maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination status, MNTE, following a successful WHO-led validation process in 2018…

February 26, 2019

Countries are spending more on health, but people are still paying too much out of their own pockets

Spending on health is growing faster than the rest of the global economy, accounting for 10% of global…

February 20, 2019