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No evidence monkeypox virus has mutated: WHO

The World Health Organization does not have evidence that the monkeypox virus has mutated, a senior executive at the UN agency said on Monday, noting the infectious disease that is endemic in west and central Africa has tended not to change.
23 May 2022, 15:36 PM

WHO chief's remarks on China's Covid policy removed from social media

A United Nations Weibo post on the World Health Organization chief's comments that China's zero-tolerance Covid-19 policy is not sustainable was removed from the Chinese social media platform on Wednesday morning shortly after being published
11 May 2022, 12:35 PM

Global Covid-19 deaths nearly 3 times higher than reported: WHO

Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as the official data show, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, the most comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far.
5 May 2022, 13:24 PM

India opposes WHO methodology to estimate Covid-19 deaths

India has opposed the methodology used by World Health Organization (WHO) for estimating deaths caused by Covid-19 in the country.
17 April 2022, 05:08 AM

Covid has taken severe mental health toll: WHO

The Covid pandemic has taken a dire toll on mental health, the WHO said yesterday, indicating that cases of anxiety and depression had swelled by over 25 percent globally.
2 March 2022, 18:00 PM

First guideline on digital health interventions

The World Health Organisation (WHO) released new recommendations on 10 ways that countries can use digital health technology, accessible via mobile phones, tablets and computers, to improve people’s health and essential services.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Traffic-related air pollution associated with 4m new cases of childhood asthma every year

The first global estimates of their kind suggest that more than one in ten childhood asthma cases could be linked to traffic-related air pollution every year,
13 April 2019, 18:00 PM

MENSTRUATION HYGIENE MANAGEMENT

Menstruation is painful, socially awkward, quite expensive and most of the time very problematic to manage for the girls and women
11 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Road crash killed 25k in '16: WHO

At least 24,954 people were killed in road crashes in the country in 2016, according to a World Health Organisation report.
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM

Are Bangladesh's expectant mothers being coerced into unnecessary, dangerous operations?

The phrase “too posh to push” was first used by British tabloids in the 2000s highlighting the trend among celebrities choosing to have their babies by caesarean section, as opposed to natural childbirth.
26 August 2018, 18:00 PM

WHO seeks int'l support for Rohingya refugees

The World Health Organization has appealed to the international community to contribute generously to enable appropriate and timely
29 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh among abstinent Asian countries when it comes to drinking

An average citizen in Bangladesh and Indonesia drinks hardly a bottle of wine in a year. Whereas, the lowest alcohol consumption is reported in Pakistan at nearly 0, and people in South Korea are the most prolific drinkers in Asia.
23 December 2017, 05:40 AM

Dengue Vaccine: Relief turns into worry

The world's first ever vaccine to prevent dengue fever works just fine on those who had contracted the disease before, but brings trouble to the people who were never infected by the virus.
20 December 2017, 18:00 PM

24.4m not getting enough right food

Every seventh person in Bangladesh is an undernourished one who cannot acquire enough food to meet dietary energy requirements.
16 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Pollution: killer of children

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), pollution in its many manifestations is killing some 280,000 children in Bangladesh annually.
7 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Football: Smog may force U-17 football World Cup out of Delhi

FIFA could pull Under-17 World Cup matches out of New Delhi because of concerns over air quality in the world's most polluted capital city, the tournament director said.
22 February 2017, 09:06 AM

Monsoon and the mosquito menace

Mosquitoes are a pest with no equal. Though not all mosquitoes transmit life-threatening diseases, those that do kill approximately 725,000 people worldwide every year. When not fatal, the diseases mosquitoes spread can result in bouts of debilitating fever, nausea and vomiting, compromising immune systems and disrupting economies. The WHO South-East Asia Region is particularly affected.
20 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Long jump champ Rutherford freezes sperm over Zika fears

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford decides to freeze his sperm because of fears about the Zika virus at this year's Games in Rio de Janeiro.
8 June 2016, 09:55 AM

WHO seeks to allay Zika Olympics fears

The World Health Organization (WHO) plays down concerns over the spread of the Zika virus, amid calls for the Rio Olympics to be postponed.
28 May 2016, 02:40 AM

Zika outbreak will worsen before it gets better: WHO

The head of the World Health Organization warns that the Zika outbreak would likely worsen before nations besieged by the mosquito-borne virus linked to thousands of birth defects in Brazil see relief.
25 February 2016, 06:08 AM