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WHO expert: Virus study to have unanimity despite pressure
The head of a World Health Organization team working with Chinese colleagues to finish a long-awaited report into the origins of the coronavirus acknowledged its authors could face “pressures” but insisted the final product will have a unanimous green light from all of the team's science-minded members.
Kangaroo mother care can save lives of 125,000 newborns: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday highlighted the risks of separating newborns from their mothers, with new research showing that up to 125,000 lives could be saved by keeping them together to ensure skin-to-skin contact.
EU regulator 'convinced' AstraZeneca benefit outweighs risk
With coronavirus cases rising in many places, governments faced the grimmest of dilemmas Tuesday: push on with a vaccine that is known to save lives or suspend use of AstraZeneca over reports of dangerous blood clots in a few recipients, even as the European regulator said there was "no indication" the shot was responsible.
WHO: Vaccine rollout unaffected by concerns over AstraZeneca
The U.N. health agency said its global rollout of coronavirus vaccines remains unaffected even as a growing number of countries, especially in Europe, suspended use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine on Monday amid concerns about blood clots in some people who received it.
No reason to stop using AstraZeneca jab, says WHO
Countries should not stop using AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine over fears it causes blood clots as there is no indication this is true, the World Health Organization says, reports BBC.
EU regulator approves J&J’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine
The European Medicines Agency has authorized Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus vaccine, giving the European Union’s 27 nations a fourth licensed vaccine to try to curb the pandemic amid a stalled vaccination drive in the bloc
WHO study finds 1 in 3 women face physical, sexual violence
The U.N. health agency and its partners have found in a new study that nearly one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes.
Urgent action needed to boost production of Covid jabs: WHO
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for urgent action to increase the production of Covid-19 vaccines for distribution through the UN global initiative, making the jabs accessible to all countries.
WHO calls for more global support for equitable rollout of vaccines
Lauding global solidarity for the initial success of COVAX in Africa, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for "more international support" to ensure an equitable rollout of jabs worldwide.
1 in 4 people projected to have hearing problems by 2050: WHO
Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, warns the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first World Report on Hearing, released on Tuesday.