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The easing of public health measures taken to curb COVID-19 spread, which also reduced influenza activity, may enable easy transmission of both viruses, the WHO says.
"It’s essential that all countries work closely with affected communities to adopt measures that protect their health, human rights and dignity," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday.
Monkeypox was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization following a surge in cases across 75 countries.
The XE recombinant may be more transmissible than any strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the WHO warned.
The WHO has recommended to countries that received Covaxin to take actions as appropriate.
Can Omicron spread faster than other Covid variants, or are the Omicron symptoms similar to that of other variants, here's all you need to know as per the latest WHO update on Omicron.
The WHO on Monday announced the 2022 global campaign for World No Tobacco Day - “Tobacco: Threat to our environment."
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that there is some evidence that shows that Omicron variant causes milder disease than Delta strain, but it’s still too early to be definitive.
The WHO 2021 Global TB report states that 1.5 million people died from TB in 2020 (including 214000 among HIV positive people).
Pointing out that suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, WHO sets new guidelines to help countries in their suicide prevention efforts.
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday launched a year-long global campaign to World No Tobacco Day 2021 - “Commit to Quit".
The WHO has launched a new toolkit that aims to improve global birth defects surveillance.
The world observes World AIDS Day every December 1 to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection
The WHO advisory on testing was issued in its Guidance Note on “Public Health Criteria to Adjust Public Health and Social Measures in the Context of COVID-19”.
As the unlocking begins, it is also time for India to engage with a truthful self-reflection.
The UN health agency said that more research is needed to elucidate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through air.
The WHO survey, conducted ahead of the International AIDS Society’s biannual conference, stated that 24 countries reported having either a critically low stock of ARVs or disruptions in the supply of these life-saving medicines.
In an atmosphere of global political division and fractures on a national level, "the worst is yet to come. I'm sorry to say that," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
The current scourge with the advent of COVID-19 pandemic tells us that there is the need to protect people from health emergencies
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