World Health Organization (WHO) Current Affairs

WHO partners with Rajasthan to create health account

Rajasthan becomes the first state to attempt systematize of health accounts to track and monitoring of health expenditures over time and can serve as an important tool for evidence based policy making. This project of Rajasthan will be aid by the WHO India country office by providing technical and financial support for conducting the first round of health accounts. The state government has allocated […]

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WHO honoured Jharkhand for efforts in controlling tobacco consumption

The World Health Organization (WHO) has selected Jharkhand for the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) Award-2022 for recognising its efforts in controlling tobacco consumption. The award will be received by the Stata Tobacco Control Cell of the Health Department on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day (31 May). National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) was launched in Jharkhand in 2012 when the tobacco prevalence rate

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Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus re-elected as WHO Director-General for second term

World Health Organization has re-appointed Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director-General of WHO for the second term with effect from 16th August 2022. His re-election was confirmed during the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva. He was the sole candidate. Dr Tedros was first elected in 2017. Before joining the WHO, Dr Tedros was served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and

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WHO honours ASHA workers for contribution to advancing global health

World Health Organisation (WHO) awarded and honoured to India’s one million all-women Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers for their ‘outstanding’ contribution to advancing global health, demonstrated leadership and commitment to regional health issues. ASHAs workers worked to provide maternal care and immunization for children against vaccine-preventable diseases; community health care; treatment for hypertension and tuberculosis.

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WHO’s World Immunization Week: 24-30 April

As World Immunization Week is observed from 24-30 April with the theme “Long Life for All,” the World Council of Churches (WCC) and its vaccine champions continue to support sharing accurate information about vaccines as well as access to vaccines across the globe. Immunization is being recognized as one of the world’s most successful and

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World Health Day 2022

World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7 April to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. It aims to create awareness among people regarding a specific subject of major importance to global health. It also aims to direct global attention toward the well-being of our planet

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Cabinet approves establishment of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the establishment of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (WHO GCTM) in Jamnagar, Gujarat by signing a Host Country agreement between the Government of India and the World Health Organization (WHO). This would be the first and only global Centre for traditional

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WHO launches Quit Tobacco App

The World Health Organization launched ‘Quit Tobacco App’ to help people kick the cigarette butt and give up use of tobacco in all forms – including smokeless and other newer products. The App was launched by Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO-SEAR, during WHO’s year-long ‘Commit to quit’ campaign, is the latest tobacco control initiative

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WHO confirms ‘Omicron’ Covid-19 variant in 23 countries

The Omicron Covid-19 variant, which was discovered in southern Africa last month, has now spread to as many as 23 countries, the director-general of World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. As per WHO, the mix of low vaccination coverage and low testing rates are creating a fertile breeding ground for new Covid variants. Blanket

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WHO classifies new COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529 as Omicron

On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified a new COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.529, as a Variant of Concern and has named it Omicron. No cases of this variant have been identified in the U.S. to date. CDC is following the details of this new variant, first reported to the WHO by South Africa. According to WHO, the strain may spread more quickly than

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