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WHO launches the WHOeyes app on World Sight Day

Published on: October 12, 2023
15:58

Geneva, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) To draw attention to blindness and vision impairment worldwide, every year on the second Thursday of October, World Sight Day is observed. For this year’s celebration, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched “WHOeyes”, a free app for the general public to check how well they can see things close up and at a distance and learn how they can protect their eyes. The app checks visual acuity – a measure of how well the eye can distinguish shapes and details at a given distance and is the most common assessment of visual function.

WHO celebrates World Sight Day

Published on: October 12, 2023
12:46

Geneva, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday celebrates the World Sight Day to raise awareness about different types of visual affections and treatments, preventing patients from totally losing their ability to see.

WHO launches roadmap to fight off postpartum hemorrhage

Published on: October 11, 2023
17:32

Geneva, Oct 11 (Prensa Latina) Severe bleeding after childbirth - postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) - is the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide.

WHO advocates creating humanitarian corridor for Gaza Strip

Published on: October 10, 2023
09:28

Bern, Oct 10 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday advocated creating a humanitarian corridor to bring products to the Gaza Strip, which is under Israel's bombings, amid its conflict with the resistance movement Hamas.

WHO commends Egypt for progress in eliminating hepatitis C

Published on: October 9, 2023
16:37

Geneva, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) The Arab Republic of Egypt has become the first country to achieve the "gold tier” status on the path to elimination of hepatitis C as per WHO criteria. This means that Egypt has fulfilled WHO's programmatic coverage targets that will set the country up to achieve the reduced incidence and mortality targets of full elimination before 2030.

WHO launches new guidance for better quality in mental health care

Published on: October 9, 2023
16:26

Geneva, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) Ahead of World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) are jointly launching new guidance, entitled “Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice”, to support countries to reform legislation in order to end human rights abuses and increase access to quality mental health care.

WHO recommends new vaccine against malaria, dengue, meningitis

Published on: October 5, 2023
17:55

Geneva, Oct 5 (Prensa Latina) At the much-anticipated meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE), the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday issued recommendations for three new groundbreaking vaccines to combat malaria, dengue and meningitis, the director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, according to Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO.

WHO concerned about surge in Covid-19 hospitalization

Published on: September 27, 2023
17:35

United Nations, Sep 27 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned of an increased ICUs hospitalization toll due to Covid-19 in August, especially in European and Latin American nations.

WHO urges to ban smoking, vaping in schools worldwide

Published on: September 27, 2023
16:59

Geneva, Sep 27 (Prensa Latina) Young people continue to be “relentlessly” targeted with tobacco and nicotine products, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday, in a call to ban smoking and vaping “whether sitting in class, playing games outside or waiting at the school bus stop”.

World leaders set new targets to end TB by 2027 – WHO

Published on: September 22, 2023
17:19

United Nations, Sep 22 (Prensa Latina) World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (TB) have approved a Political Declaration with ambitious new targets for the next five years to advance the global efforts towards ending the TB epidemic.

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