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WHO launches global guidelines on catheter use

Published on: May 9, 2024
17:59

Geneva, May 9 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday launched the first global guidelines to prevent the occurrence of bloodstream and other infections caused by use of catheters placed in minor blood vessels during medical procedures.

WHO worries about bird flu notwithstanding low global health risk

Published on: May 2, 2024
20:03

Geneva, May 2 (Prensa Latina) WHO sustained on Thursday that the global health risk level of bird flu at a low level, but it admitted concern over the growing spread of its incidence due to climate change, among other reasons.

WHO concerned about healthcare access in Haiti

Published on: April 29, 2024
16:16

Port-au-Prince, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday expressed deep concern about Haitians´ access to health care centers in the midst of rising violence situation the Caribbean nation is presently experiencing.

Global vaccination saved 154M lives in past 50 years – WHO

Published on: April 24, 2024
16:17

Geneva, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) In the past 50 years global immunization has saved 154 million people, equivalent to six lives every minute, and most of them were babies, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Wednesday.

WHO: New strategy to boost stalled crackdown on malaria

Published on: April 23, 2024
16:56

Geneva, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) The WHO Global Malaria Program published on Tuesday a new operational strategy outlining priorities and activities to help change trends in this deadly disease.

WHO supports fight against malaria outbreak in Haiti

Published on: April 14, 2024
13:08

Port-au-Prince, Apr 14 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) supports the fight against malaria in Haiti, where today there is fear that the disease could spread nationwide and to neighboring territories.

The health system in Gaza has been destroyed, WHO denounced

Published on: April 12, 2024
08:56

Ramallah, Apr 12 (Prensa Latina) The medical system of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed by the Israeli attacks, denounced the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in his account on X.

WHO coordinates global deployment of rapid cholera tests

Published on: April 6, 2024
01:00

Geneva, Apr 6 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) coordinated the global deployment of rapid diagnostic tests to boost the fight against cholera, with the first shipment arriving in Malawi on Friday.

Conflicts and climate crisis: hinder the right to health

Published on: April 5, 2024
16:41

Geneva, Apr 5 (Prensa Latina) Political inaction, conflicts, biases and the climate crisis are nowadays hindering the right of all people, wherever they are, to access quality health services.

NGOs urge WHO to include kidney disease in priority list

Published on: April 3, 2024
17:18

Washington, Apr 3 (Prensa Latina) Professional institutions working on kidney health urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to include this disease in the priority non-communicable diseases (NCDs) list, according to an article published in Nature Reviews Nephrology.

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