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New WHO guidelines on HIV, hepatitis, and STIs 

By Windie Khyla Pultam Some of the life-threatening diseases that the world has been grappling with are the same ones that health experts have been...

New York asks WHO: Rename ‘stigmatizing’ monkeypox

New York City asked the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday to rename the monkeypox virus to avoid stigmatizing patients who might then hold...

Mass making of monkeypox vax seen

The Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP)  on Monday said the World Health Organization’s (WHO) move declaring monkeypox as a global health emergency might lead to...

WHO: Vigilance vs. monkeypox

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday appealed for vigilance to ensure monkeypox does not spread among more vulnerable groups, such as children. Fighting the...

Preparing for monkeypox

"But many of the recent transmissions were due to sexual contact between two males which seems to add a new dimension to how the...

For cancer patients and their families

"189 out of every 100,000 Filipinos are stricken with cancer while four Filipinos die of cancer every hour…alarming figures that gave impetus for legislators...

‘The suffering is enormous’: WHO urges mental health action

The World Health Organization on Friday called on all nations to invest more in mental health, saying "the suffering is enormous" and has been...

WHO warns monkeypox real risk as outbreak cases hit 1k

The risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic nations is real, the WHO warned, with more than a thousand cases now confirmed in such...

Amid COVID, Pinoys face HIV scourge

HIV remains a “silent epidemic” as Filipinos continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report. In 2021, the Department of Health (DOH) said...

780 monkeypox outbreak cases verified—WHO

Geneva—The World Health Organization said Sunday that 780 laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases had been reported to it from 27 non-endemic countries while maintaining that the...

N. Korea Covid outbreak likely ‘getting worse’ says WHO

The World Health Organization lamented Wednesday that it had no access to data about North Korea's Covid-19 outbreak, but assumed the crisis was deepening,...

WHO sees no pandemic yet for monkeypox

The World Health Organization said it was not concerned for now that the spread of monkeypox beyond the African countries where it is typically...

Countries agree to overhaul WHO funding

By Robin Millard Shaken by the pandemic, the World Health Organization's member states agreed Tuesday to overhaul how they fund the UN health agency, giving...

Harm reduction tagged as missing strategy in WHO’s tobacco control

Two former World Health Organization officials identified harm reduction as the missing link in the global body’s tobacco control policy, as the number of...
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