Japan supports WHO aid to 160k vulnerable people affected by 2019 floods
Tehran Times – The World Health Organization (WHO) by receiving a donation from the Government of Japan intensifies its current supports with…
Tag Archives: World Health Organization (WHO)
Malaria, still a challenge in Sistan-Baluchestan
Tehran Times – Malaria is still a challenge in some parts of Iran, especially in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, said Dr. Christoph Hamelmann, World…
WHO airlifts medical supplies to people affected by the floods in Islamic Republic of Iran
United Nations Iran – The World Health Organization (WHO) airlifted essential medical supplies to the Islamic Republic of Iran to respond to…
WHO advisor: Iran pioneering in healthy blood transfusion
FNA – A senior advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) lauded Iran for its effective efforts to provide patients with most…
Iran’s rank in health promotion ups 42
IRNA – Chairman of the Fourteenth Conference on Child Diseases, said that according to the results of the report of the World…
WHO head hails Iran’s contributions to health sector
MNA – Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO) commended Iran for its Health Reform Plan, deeming it a suitable model for rendering primary…
UN health agency warns of new Yemen cholera surge after Saudi strikes hit medical facilities
Press TV – The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Yemen is likely to be struck by another “major wave” of…
Iran becomes permanent member of int’l cancer research centre
IFP – The Islamic Republic of Iran has been appointed as the permanent member of the International Agency for Research on Cancer…
WHO says diphtheria infected over 1,300 people in Yemen
AP— The World Health Organization says a diphtheria outbreak in war-torn Yemen has spread rapidly nationwide and infected more than 1,300 people.…
WHO appoints Iran health min. as commissioner on NCDs
MNA – At the official announcement of World Health Organization (WHO), Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Dr. Seyed Hassan Ghazizadeh…
Palestinian Authority cutting financial support for sick Gazans: WHO
Press TV – The Palestinian Authority (PA) has significantly reduced financial help for Gazans in need of medical treatment outside the besieged…
Cholera outbreak in Yemen poses risk to Hajj pilgrims: WHO
Press TV – The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the cholera outbreak in Yemen could spread during the annual Hajj pilgrimage…
WHO says 1,146 killed due to cholera in Yemen since April
Pres TV – The World Health Organization says 1,146 people have been killed due to an outbreak of cholera in Yemen since late…
Cholera kills 25 people in Yemen in single week: WHO
Press TV – The World Health Organization (WHO) says cholera claimed the lives of 25 people in Yemen last week, several months…
Iran receives Polio-Free certificate from WHO
Financial Tribune- Iran received the certification for polio eradication from the World Health Organization on February 19 after decades of battling the…
WHO dismisses report on unwanted pregnancies in Iraq’s Karbala
Press TV- The World Health Organization has rejected as false a report on the increased number of unintended pregnancies in Iraq’s holy city…
Iran enjoys high capacity in producing blood products, plasma
Karaj, Alborz prov. Aug 2, IRNA – Managing Director of Iran’s Blood Transfusion Organization (IBTO) Ali Akbar Pour-Fathollah said here on Tuesday…
Iran capable in flour enrichment industry
TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) – A WHO official, while pointing to Iran’s capabilities in flour enrichment, said reduction of salt, fat and…
Iran ranks 2nd in well-timed influenza diagnosis
Tehran, Jan 31, IRNA- The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Iran ranked second after Canada in well-timed influenza diagnosis. Head of…
End of Ebola epidemic declared in West Africa
CONAKRY, Dec. 30 (MNA) – The West African region was declared free of the virus Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF), according to the…
Iranian scientist receives OPCW prize for ceaseless contributions
Though chemical weapons have been used, more or less, since antiquity, their devastating use in the 20th century dates back to the…
Photos of the week
July 20- 26, 2015 Flash Flood Hits Sijan Village in Iran’s Northern Alborz Province Flash flood triggered by a summer storm…
Photos: WHO director general meets with Iran’s health minister
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Director General of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan met with Iran’s Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi in…
Iran health reform plan good model for other countries: WHO chief
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Margaret Chan, the head of World Health Organization (WHO), hailed Iran’s health reform plan as a good model to…
World Malaria Day: call to close gaps in prevention and treatment
Geneva, April 23, IRNA — The World Health Organization is calling on the global health community to urgently address significant gaps in…
Preventing and curing cancer is not beyond us.
The international community is capable of coming together to tackle cancer which is taking its toll in developing countries. That’s the message…
Ebola kills 8,153 people in 3 West Africa states: WHO
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the three hardest-hit West African countries has exceeded 8,000, the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Official: Iran fully prepared for any possible case of Ebola
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian health ministry official announced that a well-equipped hospital in Tehran is ready to deal with possible cases…
Health Minister to address WHO meeting in Tunisia
Tehran, Oct 18, IRNA – Minister of Health Hassan Hashemi will depart for Tunisia on Sunday to lecture at the sixty-first session…
WHO warns 10,000 new cases of Ebola a week are possible
UN agency says fatality rate at 70% and that ‘a lot more people will die’ unless world steps up its response to…
Ebola death toll Is more than 2,900, W.H.O. says
GENEVA — The number of people killed by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has reached at least 2,917, driven by the…
15 Syria kids die amid UN vaccine campaign
A United Nations (UN) measles vaccination campaign has been halted following the death of at least 15 children under the age of…
4th doctor dies of Ebola in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone has lost a fourth doctor to Ebola after a failed effort to transfer her abroad…
Suicide kills one person worldwide every 40 seconds, WHO report finds
Some of worst-affected countries have suicide rates 40 times higher than those where fewest people kill themselves One person in the world…
$600 million needed to tackle Ebola outbreak: UN
A UN health official says at least 600 million dollars in aid would be required to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak ravaging…
Ebola cases may surpass 20,000, WHO says in updated plan
More than 20,000 people may be infected with the Ebola virus before the outbreak in West Africa is controlled and curbing the…
WHO calls for ban on e-cigarettes
Geneva, August 26, IRNA — The World Health Organization challenged e-cigarettes as electronic nicotine delivery systems requiring global regulation in the interest…
WHO says working with Liberia to intensify Ebola response
Geneva, August 23, IRNA — As Liberia continues to struggle with the largest and most complex outbreak of Ebola in history, the…
Ebola kills 84 in three days: UN
The Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, the World Health Organization said…
Ebola epidemic to take six months to control: MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola epidemic is moving faster than authorities can handle and it could…