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WHO launches bold push to raise health taxes and save millions of lives

September 6, 2025 Global Author

The World Health Organization (WHO) today has launched a major new initiative urging countries to raise real prices on tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks by at least 50% by 2035 through health taxes in a move designed to curb chronic diseases and generate critical public revenue. The “3 by 35” Initiative comes at a time when health systems are under… Read More

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Malawians head to the voting booths in 8 days’ time!

September 6, 2025September 6, 2025 Global AuthorMalawians voting

By Janet Karim 15 And if it seems evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. — Joshua… Read More

World leaders recognized for championing the WHO Pandemic Agreement

September 5, 2025 Global AuthorHealth News

The World Health Organization has formally recognized the pivotal role of a number of heads of state and government in securing the adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly in May 2025. At a special event at WHO Headquarters in Geneva on 10 July 2025, plaques were presented to the representatives of two countries whose… Read More

Air pollution is on the rise – but not everywhere, says UN weather agency

September 5, 2025 Global Author

As billions continue to breathe polluted air that causes more than 4.5 million premature deaths every year, UN climate experts on Friday highlighted how damaging microscopic smoke particles from wildfires play their part, travelling halfway across the world. Read More

Global hunger declines, but rises in Africa and western Asia: UN report

September 5, 2025 Global Author

An estimated 8.2 percent of the global population, or about 673 million people, experienced hunger in 2024, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.Source WHO Read More

Malnutrition rates reach alarming levels in Gaza, WHO warns

September 5, 2025 Global AuthorHealth News

Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. The crisis remains entirely preventable. Deliberate blocking and delay of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid has cost many lives.Source WHO Read More

WHO sounds alarm as mental health conditions soar past one billion worldwide

September 2, 2025 Global Author

More than a billion people worldwide are living with mental health conditions, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. Read More

Burundi eliminates trachoma as a public health problem

September 2, 2025 Global Author

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Burundi as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the eighth country in WHO’s African Region to reach this important milestone. Trachoma is also the first neglected tropical disease (NTD) to be eliminated in the country.Source WHO Read More

WHO, WMO issue new report and guidance to protect workers from increasing heat stress

August 29, 2025 Global AuthorHealth News

The WHO and WMO have released a comprehensive technical report and guidance addressing the escalating global health and economic risks posed by extreme heat, particularly in the workplace. This guidance builds on five decades of research and responds to the record-breaking temperatures of recent years, with 2023 being the hottest year on record.Source WHO Read More

IPC Gaza Strip Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert

August 29, 2025 Global AuthorHealth News

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), of which WHO is a member, today issued a Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert for the Gaza Strip. The details are as noted below. Key highlights The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has issued a stark warning today that the worst-case scenario of Famine is now unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Amid relentless… Read More