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Tag Archives: World Health Organization
Malaria Project Failing Due to Lack of Funds
An article published in the online Malaria Journal argues that the World Health Organization is woefully behind in its 1998 Roll Back Malaria plan that sought to cut malaria deaths in half by 2010 and then in half again by … Continue reading
World Health Organization: Infectious Diseases Kill More than 5 Million Children Annually
World Health Organization representative Dr. James mwazia recently issued a statement for World Health Day noting that infectious diseases such as diarrhea, malaria and others kill more than 5 million children each year. The sad irony is that these diseases … Continue reading
WHO to Launch Intensive Polio Immunization Effort in India
Following the largest polio epidemic in recent history, the World Health Organization is launching an intensive immunization effort in India. An estimated 1.3 million volunteers will go to door to door in an effort to vaccinate every child under five. … Continue reading
State of The World’s Vaccines and Immunizations
A report by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the World Bank concluded that 3 out of 4 children around the world now have access to essential vaccines. But, of course, that means that fully 25 percent of the world’s … Continue reading
Illegal Abortions a Major Killer of Women in Ethiopia
According to the World Health Organization, complications arising from illegal abortions are now the second leading cuase of death for young women in Ethiopia. Only tuberculosis kills more young women in that poverty-stricken nation. Abortion is illegal in Ethiopia except … Continue reading
WHO Considers Changing Its Ringworm Treatment Policy
Due to the surprising results of research carried out on children in Zanzibar, the World Health Organization is considering lowering the age at which it treats children for ringworm parasites. Infection of young children by ringworm parasites is fairly common … Continue reading
Dictators, Development and Malaria
North and South Korea offer a nice look at the real sources of underdevelopment in Third World countries. That distinction was recently highlighted with word from the World Health Organization that North Korea has been experiencing a malaria epidemic over … Continue reading
WHO: Tuberculsosis Efforts Falling Behind
The World Health Organization issued a report this month noting that the world is falling behind in efforts to contain tuberculosis. According to the WHO, A strategy that can cure up to 90% of all tuberculosis cases, and thus is … Continue reading
Is the World Health Organization Part of the Problem?
Brian Doherty has an excellent, scathing attack on the World Health Organization for the January 2002 issue of Reason which argues that the organization is a bureaucratic nightmare more interested in self-preservation than actually doing something about improving health in … Continue reading
Goats as Malaria Vaccine Factories
So called “farmaceuticals” — genetically engineered animals that express drugs in their milk — has long been predicted as a likely eventual outcome of biotechnology efforts and that possibility took a big step forward with the recent announcement of initial … Continue reading