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Chan appointed to second term as WHO director
TweetThe World Health Assembly, currently meeting in Geneva, appointed Dr. Margaret Chan for a second term as director-general of the World Health Organization. In her acceptance speech, Chan stressed that she would continue to improve the health of the world’s … Read More »
WHO relying on social media for critical surveillance
TweetThe head of communications at the World Health Organization recently said that social media has fundamentally changed the way the group conducts global health surveillance. Christine Feig made the comments at the WHO’s Strategic Health Operations Center, where a team … Read More »
WHO fears TB resurgence
TweetThe World Health Organization recently warned that tuberculosis could become incurable if governments fail to act. The WHO blames a reduction in public health funding, the sale of inaccurate blood tests and the misuse of TB medicine, especially in the … Read More »
U.N. fails to hit measles death reduction target
TweetThe United Nations countries have failed to meet a target for reducing the measles death toll by 90 percent by 2010, mostly due to outbreaks in southern Africa and poor vaccine coverage in India. Members of the World Health Organization … Read More »
WHO takes India off of the polio-endemic countries list
TweetThe World Health Organization has taken India off of the list of polio-endemic countries, which suggests that the wild polio virus has been completely eliminated from the environment. Ghulam Nabi Azad, the minister of Health and Family Planning, made the … Read More »