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WHO/Europe studies find baby foods are high in sugar and inappropriately marketed for babies

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Écrit par WHO | 15 Juillet 2019

Brussels, Belgium, 15 July 2019 - Two new studies from WHO/Europe show that a high proportion of baby foods are incorrectly marketed as suitable for infants under the age of 6 months, and that many of those foods contain inappropriately high levels of sugar.

WHO’s long-standing recommendation states that children should be breastfed, exclusively, for the first 6 months. Its 2016 global...

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Worldwide reduction in MERS cases and deaths since 2016

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Écrit par WHO | 15 Juillet 2019

The World Health Organization and colleagues from the University of Oxford, Imperial College London and Institut Pasteur* have estimated that, since 2016, 1 465 cases of Middle East Respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and between 300 and 500 deaths may have been averted due to accelerated global efforts to detect infections early and reduce transmission.

In 2012, a novel virus...

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More than a million people to be vaccinated in phase 2 of a huge cholera vaccination campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Écrit par WHO | 10 Juillet 2019

MBUJI-MAYI / GENEVA, 3 JULY 2019 -- Phase 2 of the biggest ever oral vaccination campaign against cholera is scheduled to take place from 3-8 July 2019 in 15 health districts in the four central provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - Kasaï, Kasaï Oriental, Lomami et Sankuru. The second dose of vaccine confers lasting immunity against cholera, and is being targeted at 1...

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HIV cases in Pakistan

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Écrit par WHO | 10 Juillet 2019

3 July 2019 - On 25 April 2019, the local administration in Larkana district was alerted by media reports of a surge in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases among children in Ratodero Taluka, Larkana district, Sindh province, Pakistan. A screening camp was initially established at Taluka’s main hospital. Later, screening was expanded to other health facilities including selected...

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Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Écrit par WHO | 02 Juillet 2019

Disease outbreak news: 27 June 2019 - The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces continues at a stable pace this week. Although response operations were temporarily interrupted in Beni following two days of insecurity in the surrounding areas, operations have largely resumed. However, in the town of Musienene, violent threats persist against healthcare...

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A New WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Universal Health Coverage

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Écrit par WHO | 27 Juin 2019

27 June 2019 - WHO announced today the appointment of Professor Keizo Takemi as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Universal Health Coverage.


Professor Takemi is an internationally renowned advocate on global health and development. He was the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1998-1999 and the Senior Vice Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan in 2006-2007. As the son of...

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Eliminating trachoma: WHO announces sustained progress with hundreds of millions of people no longer at risk of infection

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Écrit par WHO | 27 Juin 2019

Maputo ¦ Geneva ¦ 27 June 2019 The number of people at risk of trachoma – the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness – has fallen from 1.5 billion in 2002 to just over 142 million in 2019, a reduction of 91%, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.

New data presented today at the 22nd meeting of the WHO Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma by 2020...

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Informations de l’IRSN sur les mesures de tritium dans la Loire

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Écrit par IRSN | 20 Juin 2019

altLe 18 juin 2019, l’ACRO a rendu publics les résultats d’une campagne de mesure citoyenne de la radioactivité sur le bassin versant de la Loire. Elle attire l’attention du public sur le niveau élevé d’une des mesures du tritium faite dans la Loire (310 Bq/L) et sur la présence de tritium dans l’eau du robinet prélevée régulièrement à Châtellerault.

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WHO flags "critical funding gap” amidst call for all political parties to join the fight against Ebola

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Écrit par WHO | 20 Juin 2019

19 June 2019, Geneva—The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will only end with bipartisan political cooperation and community ownership, according to the World Health Organization’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He was speaking to Member States in Geneva after returning from a visit to DRC, where he reviewed the health response and met with...

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