Écrit par SPF | 09 Novembre 2016

Les points clés

En métropole, légère augmentation de l'activité grippale par rapport à la semaine précédente.
Antilles-Guyane : début de l'épidémie en Guadeloupe et décroissance de l'épidémie en Guyane.
A la Réunion : fin de la deuxième vague épidémique.

Écrit par WHO | 09 Novembre 2016

Les Cayes, Haiti, 8 November 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - A large contingent of national supervisors, nurses, health workers and criesurs, or town criers, are being mobilized by the Ministry of Health and Population of Haiti to vaccinate some 800,000 people living in 16 communes in the departments of Sud and Grand'Anse, the areas most affected by Hurricane Mathew a month ago.

The campaign, which...

Écrit par WHO | 09 Novembre 2016

7 NOVEMBER 2016 | GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a new series of recommendations to improve quality of antenatal care in order to reduce the risk of stillbirths and pregnancy complications and give women a positive pregnancy experience.
Last year, an estimated 303 000 women died from pregnancy-related causes, 2.7 million babies died during the first 28 days of life...

Écrit par WHO | 07 Novembre 2016

Sana'a, 6 November 2016 — More than half of all health facilities in Yemen are closed or partially functioning, and there are critical shortages in medical doctors in more than 40% of all districts, according to a new WHO health system survey.

Final findings from WHO’s Health Resources Availability Mapping System (HeRAMS*) in 16 out of Yemen's 22 governorates show that out of total...