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16 Feb 2024
Updated WHO guidance for controlling vector-borne diseases through indoor residual spraying.
An estimated 80% of the world’s population is at risk of one or more vector-borne diseases. Mosquitoes, flies, bugs, and other vectors transmit viruses, parasites and bacteria that infect millions o...
2 Feb 2024
WHO awards countries for progress in eliminating industrially produced trans fats for the first time
The WHO has awarded its first-ever certificates validating progress in eliminating industrially-produced trans-fatty acids to five countries. Denmark, Lithuania, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand hav...
20 Jan 2024
WHO releases AI ethics and governance guidance for large multi-modal models
The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing new guidance on the ethics and governance of large multi-modal models (LMMs) – a type of fast-growing generative artificial intelligence (AI) technol...
25 Nov 2023
Climate change and health: Health needs to be front and centre of national plans to fight climate change
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-28), WHO has published its “2023 review of health in nationally determined contributions and long-term strategies” highlighting the actions needed to...
17 Nov 2023
WHO launches commission to foster social connection and address loneliness as a health threat
The WHO has announced a new Commission on Social Connection, to address loneliness as a pressing health threat, promote social connection as a priority and accelerate the scaling up of solutions in co...
11 Sep 2023
Africa Climate Summit 2023: The inextricable link between public health and climate change
The inaugural Africa Climate Summit has drawn its curtains in Nairobi, Kenya. Being the first climate summit bringing African leaders to steer the climate change conversation from an African lens, it ...
7 Aug 2023
World Breastfeeding Week: Joint statement by UNICEF executive director and WHO director-general
Statement by Catherine Russell and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus In the last 10 years, many countries have made significant progress to increase exclusive breastfeeding rates. Yet...
29 May 2023
How Far We’ve Come: Unveiling the AAAQ Framework and Assessing Kenya’s Healthcare Status
The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 has been heralded as one of the most transformative constitutional frameworks in the world. A key indicator for this global acclaim is the express provision and codific...
22 May 2023
Unveiling the fallout: An Analysis of Kemsa scandals and Health PS termination
In the past decade, the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) has been involved in one scandal after another. Every other year, Kemsa is embroiled in what are mostly procurement-related scandals. I...
15 May 2023
Lifesaving solution dramatically reduces severe bleeding after childbirth
A new solution, known as E-MOTIVE, could provide a major breakthrough in reducing deaths from childbirth-related bleeding according to a landmark study by researchers from the World Health Organizatio...
8 May 2023
WHO and tobacco control partners urge countries not to partner or work with the tobacco industry
WHO is concerned with continued attempts by the tobacco industry and its surrogates to further its interests to influence scientific research, public perception, policy-making, and the media; all aime...
26 Apr 2023
Focus on kidney health is key in fighting non-communicable diseases
The enormous negative impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on public health systems across the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region today is receiving much more attention on the policy agenda than it...
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