WHO announces winners of the 5th Health for All Film Festival
Seven winning short films, four special mentions from the Jury Geneva---The World Health Organization has announced the official selection of this year’s winning films of its 5th Health for All Film Festival. The awards were announced today at a special event launching WHO’s Investment Round on the eve of the Seventy-Seventh World Health Assembly in […]
Union Health Secretary addresses High-Level Meeting on “Advancing Health and Well-Being of Billions in WHO South-East Asia Region”
Shri Apurva Chandra, Union Health Secretary chaired a high-level meeting on “Advancing Health and Well-Being of Billions in WHO South-East Asia Region”, a side-event to the 77th World Health Assembly co-hosted by WHO Regional Office for Southeast Asia (SEARO) and Government of India, in Geneva today. The purpose of the meeting was to strategize concerted […]
Launch of the Group of Friends of the WHO Academy on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly
Geneva, 27 May 2024 - The Group of Friends of the WHO Academy was launched today on the sidelines of the 77th World Health Assembly. The event was co-hosted by founding members: France, Indonesia, Japan, Qatar and Rwanda, represented by their minister or vice minister of health. With 30 Member States in attendance, Dr Tedros […]
WHO announces winners of the 5th Health for All Film Festival
Seven winning short films, four special mentions from the Jury Geneva---The World Health Organization has announced the official selection of this year’s winning films of its 5th Health for All Film Festival. The awards were announced today at a special event launching WHO’s Investment Round on the eve of the Seventy-Seventh World Health Assembly in […]
FDA grants Priority Review to Roche’s inavolisib for advanced hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer with a PIK3CA mutation
Priority Review recognises the best-in-class potential of the inavolisib-based regimen for patients in urgent need of new treatment options. Additional analyses of INAVO120 will be presented in an oral abstract session at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. The target action date for the FDA decision is 27 November, 2024. Basel, 29 […]
Union Health Secretary visits pharmaceutical Bilthoven Biologicals, Netherlands; has engaging meeting with CEO
Union Health Secretary Shri Apurva Chandra today visited the manufacturing unit of global pharmaceutical company Bilthoven Biologicals at Utrecht, Netherlands. He had an engaging meeting with CEO Mr. Juergen Kwik & CEO of Poonawalla Science Park (PSP) at Bilthoven Mr. Jef De Clercq on EU pandemic preparedness partnership and collaboration on production of vaccines. He […]
WHO Member States agree to share outcomes of historic IHR, pandemic agreement processes to World Health Assembly
WHO Member States have ended intensive negotiations aimed at strengthening global capacities to respond to future pandemics and outbreaks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and agreed to submit outcomes of their work for consideration by the upcoming World Health Assembly, starting Monday. Two parallel negotiation processes were undertaken to make a series of […]
WHO releases a strategic framework for enhancing prevention and control of mpox
Mpox continues to affect people around the world. A new framework released today by WHO will guide health authorities, communities and other stakeholders in preventing and controlling mpox outbreaks, eliminating human-to-human transmission of the disease, and reducing spillover of the virus from animals to humans. Mpox is a viral illness caused by the monkeypox virus […]
Shipment of newest malaria vaccine, R21, to Central African Republic marks the latest milestone for child survival
With two recommended vaccines and expanded supply, Gavi, UNICEF, WHO are working closely with governments and partners to increase malaria prevention and protection for children GENEVA/COPENHAGEN/NEW YORK, 24 May 2024 – UNICEF delivered over 43,000 doses of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine by air to Bangui, Central African Republic, today, with more than 120,000 doses to […]
Tobacco and nicotine industry tactics addict youth for life
Young people using e-cigarettes at rates higher than adults in many countries The World Health Organization (WHO) and STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog, are launching today “Hooking the next generation,” a report highlighting how the tobacco and nicotine industry designs products, implements marketing campaigns and works to shape policy environments to help them addict […]
