The World Health Organization has called on countries in Southeast Asia to urgently scale up efforts for providing universal access to prevention, vaccination, diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis B and C on the...
The World Health Organization on Tuesday called on countries in the South-East Asia Region to further strengthen efforts at all levels to identify and immunize unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children. As per the...
In a shocking study by The Lancet, almost 50 per cent of adults in India engaged in insufficient levels of physical activity. The study published in The Lancet Global Health, more women in India (57%) were found to be...
WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR) faces a disproportionately high burden of work-related mortality, with 36.5 deaths per 100,000 of the working population. World Health Organization (WHO) and ILO estimated that work-related...
Pregnant women face heightened risks of malaria as pregnancy reduces immunity making them more susceptible to infection and severe disease. Without timely and appropriate intervention, malaria in pregnancy can have...
The World Health Organization in its latest estimate on the global burden of cancer has estimated that about 1 in 5 people develop cancer in their lifetime, approximately 1 in 9 men and 1 in 12 women die from the disease. In...
According to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), total 1.1 million children in India missed their routine immunisation against measles in 2022...
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday emphasized the need for a collective effort in building the resilient global systems and boosting the global health equity. Stressing for greater collaboration in healthcare while...
The World Health Organisation has called the Member States in the South-East Asia Region to intensify action to achieve access for all to quality mental health care in line with the recently adopted Paro Declaration on...
