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‘Shift the narrative’ on suicide to prevent loss of 720,000 lives annually

September 10, 2025 Global AuthorHealthy News0 comment

More than 720,000 people commit suicide every year and many more attempt it. Now the head of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for “shifting the narrative” on the issue “to challenge harmful myths, reduce stigma and foster compassionate conversations.” Read More

80 million more children benefiting from school meals, WFP reports

September 10, 2025 Global AuthorHealthy News0 comment

School meals are a crucial way out of poverty into “a new world of learning and opportunity,” according to the World Food Programme (WFP) executive director Cindy McCain. Read More

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

September 2, 2025 Global Author0 comment

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

Haitians in ‘despair’ following abrupt suspension of US humanitarian support

July 30, 2025 Global AuthorHealthy News

People in Haiti have expressed “despair” following the “abrupt suspension” of a wide range of humanitarian services, according to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, in the Caribbean country. Read More

‘Perfect storm’ of global crises drove years of food price surges: FAO

July 22, 2025 Global Author

The chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Máximo Torero Cullen, previewed its annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report in a briefing on Tuesday to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York. Read More

UN warns of deepening health crisis in Gaza amid mass casualty incidents

July 9, 2025 Global AuthorHealthy News

As scores of people – including medical staff and their families – have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources. Read More

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Thank you, MBS! Let us all be vigilant against expired products, unhygienic spaces!

January 23, 2025January 23, 2025 Global Authorexpired products, unhygienic spaces

By Janet karim “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.” — Matthew 23:25-26 The Malawi Bureau of standards (MBS) this week closed some heavyweight international shopping centers due to unhygienic conditions and expired goods. This is a sure… Read More

Antimicrobial resistance crisis ‘happening now,’ WHO’s Tedros stresses at Jeddah summit

November 15, 2024 Global AuthorHealthy News

The top UN health official gave a sobering reality check as the Fourth Global High-Level Ministerial Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance began Friday in Jeddah: “AMR doesn’t just threaten to make the medicines on which we depend less effective; it’s happening now.” Read More

Over 22,500 have suffered ‘life-changing injuries’ in Gaza: WHO

September 12, 2024 Global Author

More than 22,500 people – a quarter of those wounded in Gaza since Israel’s offensive began – have life-changing injuries, requiring rehabilitation services “now and for years to come”, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday. Read More

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At World Health Assembly, countries agree on efforts to boost pandemic preparedness

June 2, 2024 Global AuthorHealthy News

Member countries of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), on the final day of the seventy-seventh World Health Assembly, adopted important amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), including defining a “pandemic emergency” as well as pledging improved access to medical products and financing. These steps will help ensure comprehensive, robust systems are in place in all countries to protect… Read More

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