WHO Releases Report on Covid-19 Waste Challenge
The analysis comes at a time when the health sector is under increasing pressure to reduce its carbon footprint. Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the…
2.6. Billion People Lack Clean Cooking Access
Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking is distributed unevenly across the globe. One third of the global population or 2.6 billion people worldwide still remain without access to…
2022 May Mark the End of Covid Acute Stage: WHO
Delta and Omicron are driving up cases to record numbers, leading to spikes in hospitalizations and deaths. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus reminded that it was two years…
OpenWHO Offers 40 Courses to Support the Covid-19 Response
OpenWHO will continue to grow its learning portfolio in 2022 with a focus on serving countries with localized content. In its fifth year of operation, WHO’s OpenWHO.org learning platform has…
Covid-19 Pandemic Causes Poverty and Disrupts Health Services
More than half a billion people are being pushed into extreme poverty because they have to pay for health services out of their own pockets. New evidence compiled by the…
Covid Vaccination Programs Fail as Omicron Variant Wreaks Havoc
The emergence of B.1.1.529 shows that the virus in one form or another will keep wreaking havoc around the world and the ongoing vaccination programs in different countries have failed.…