Iran and the World Health Organization have agreed to create a joint working group with the aim of eradicating hepatitis C in the country.

To bolster emergency medical services, the World Health Organization has donated 40 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and 1250 AED pads to the Iranian National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO). The donation was co-funded by the European Union.

The World Health Organization has launched a new project with the financial support of the Government of Japan to revive malaria prevention and control in south-eastern provinces of Iran, which host vulnerable populations, including Afghan refugees.

A total of 442 rare diseases have been identified in the country according to a recent report by the Rare Disease Foundation.

According to new estimates from the World Health Organization, reported by CNN, the number of cancer diagnoses worldwide will reach 35 million by 2050 – an increase of 77% from the 20 million cases diagnosed in 2022.

In a joint effort to support enhancing pre-hospital emergency response capacities in provinces hosting Afghan refugee populations, the World Health Organization (WHO), with the contribution of the Government of France, has donated three Hardtop 4x4 ambulances to the National Emergency Management Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran (NEMO).

The World Health Organization (WHO) has admitted the Persian Medicine National Coding for International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

The family physician program, being implemented in cities with less than 20,000 people, has envisaged building 3,900 medical centers across the country. We all seek to strengthen and streamline health and treatment networks to increase resilience, and the family physician program provides an opportunity to realize the goal, IRNA quoted deputy health ...

The average blood donation rate per thousand people in upper-middle income states is 16.4 and the amount in the Eastern Mediterranean stands at 14.4, while the rate in Iran is twice as much as regional statistics, an official said. Mostafa Jamali, the CEO of the Blood Transfusion Organization, made the remarks on Tuesday, noting that Iranians blood ...

A new report by four United Nations agencies has revealed that Asias cities are growing at such a fast pace that nearly 55 percent of the regions enormous population is expected to reside in urban areas by 2030, and that will have equally enormous consequences for urban food security and nutrition. Published jointly each year, the SOFI report is ...

The 28th Razi research festival on medical sciences was held here on Monday with the goal of identifying capacities and honoring exemplary researchers in the healthcare sector. Addressing the opening ceremony, President Ebrahim Raisi referred to the notable achievements of the country in the medical industry, saying that some 90 percent of needed ...

By the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20), some 2,000 health projects will be inaugurated across the country. The priority will be given to underprivileged and rural areas, ISNA quoted Amir Saki, an official with the Ministry of Health, as saying. Improving the infrastructure for providing healthcare services, especially in border ...

The number of people who die annually from air pollution in the world is 6 times the number of people who die from malaria and 4 times those killed by AIDS. Air pollution is one of the important environmental risk factors, health ministry official Abbas Shahsavani has said. By reducing pollutants, the burden of related diseases including stroke,...

Health Minister Bahram Einollahi and his Sudanese and Jordanian counterparts discussed expanding cooperation in the fields of health, treatment, education, and medicine. The officials met on the sidelines of the 69th session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, which was held in Cairo, Egypt on October 10-13. In the meeting ...

Iran ranks fourth worldwide in the production of science in the field of traditional medicine, and the remarkable achievement will improve in the coming years, Nafiseh Hosseini Yekta, the director of the health ministrys Persian medicine office, has announced. Over 17,000 books have so far been published about Persian traditional medicine, which ...

The precious efforts made by the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization have turned the country into one of the best states in East Mediterranean region in terms of blood transfusion know-how and experiences, an international figure said. Syed Jaffar Hussain, Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Head of Mission in Islamic Republic ...

Tehran Times - The World Health Organization (WHO) by receiving a donation from the Government of Japan intensifies its current supports with essential and life-saving medicines, equipment, and health services to more than 160,000 most vulnerable people affected by devastating floods in March and April 2019. The donation of the Government of Japan ...

Tehran Times - Malaria is still a challenge in some parts of Iran, especially in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, said Dr. Christoph Hamelmann, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Iran. Sistan-Baluchestan is a big province though it has a scattered population. It borders Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, some diseases arent controlled ...

United Nations Iran - The World Health Organization (WHO) airlifted essential medical supplies to the Islamic Republic of Iran to respond to the growing health needs of thousands of people who have been displaced as a result of the flooding in many provinces in the country. The supplies include trauma, health, cholera and non-communicable disease kits ...

FNA - A senior advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) lauded Iran for its effective efforts to provide patients with most hygiene and healthiest blood products. "Iran acts very well in this field and is one of the pioneering countries in area of blood healthiness in the region," said Smit Sibinga on Saturday, who has traveled to Iran to ...