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60,000 deaths in Vietnam annually linked to air pollution

The World Health Organization (WHO)’s findings have shown that air pollution is responsible for approximately 60,000 deaths in Vietnam.

 

Vietnamese consume salt twice as much as WHO-recommended level

The amount of salt recommended by the WHO is below 1.5g for under one-year-old children and less than 0.3g of salt for infants.

 

Resistant and multi-resistant bacteria appear in Vietnam

The World Health Organization (WHO) puts Vietnam in the group of countries with the highest rate of antibiotic resistance in the world.

Nearly 8 percent of couples in Vietnam infertile

Vietnam is one of the countries having the highest infertility rate in the world. It is estimated that 50% of Vietnamese infertile couples are under the age of 30.

Superbugs and anti-vaxxers make WHO's list of 10 global health threats

 From climate change to superbugs, the World Health Organization has laid out 10 big threats to our global health in 2019.

VN eliminates lymphatic filariasis

 VietNamNet Bridge – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Vietnam has eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem.

How will control of alcohol consumption affect Vietnam’s economy?

The liquor and beer industry contributed VND50 trillion to the national economy in 2017, but the total damages to society might be up to 1.3-3.3 percent of GDP, equal to VND65 trillion.

Air pollution is the leading killer in Vietnam

Of the 10 diseases with highest mortality rates in Vietnam, six are respiratory diseases related to air pollution and air quality, according to a ministry report.

WHO says attack on Syria vaccine store leaves children at risk

The World Health Organization said on Friday it had received reports of an attack on medical facilities in eastern Syria that had destroyed a store containing more than 130,000 vaccine doses against measles and polio.

WHO reports 25 million unsafe abortions a year, sees higher risk from U.S. cutbacks

 Nearly half of the estimated 56 million abortions performed worldwide every year are unsafe and women in poor countries face even higher risks due to U.S. funding cuts to family planning programs abroad,

WHO ranks antibiotics in a bid to counter drug resistance

The World Health Organization published a new classification of antibiotics on Tuesday that aims to fight drug resistance, with penicillin-type drugs recommended as the first line of defense and others only ...

WHO confirms second Ebola case in Congo outbreak

 The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Sunday a second case of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak this week of 17 other suspected cases.

WHO wants transparency, market revamp for fairer drug pricing

 The world needs greater transparency on the pricing of medicines, and an overhaul of some approaches, in order to increase access to life-saving drugs, 

WHO to help bring cheap biosimilar cancer drugs to poor

The World Health Organization is to launch a pilot project this year to assess cheap copies of expensive biotech cancer drugs in a bid to make such medicines more widely available in poorer countries.

Despite progress, measles kills 400 children a day: WHO

The number of deaths from measles has fallen by 79 percent worldwide since 2000, thanks mainly to mass vaccination campaigns, but nearly 400 children still die from the disease every day,

WHO doubles recommended number of health visits during pregnancy

The World Health Organization revised guidelines on antenatal care on Monday, saying pregnant women should have twice as many contacts with health providers - eight - as it recommended previously. 

Exclusive: India's tobacco industry, government face off ahead of WHO conference

 India's $11 billion tobacco industry has urged the government to take a softer line on tobacco control efforts when it hosts a World Health Organization conference in New Delhi next month,

WHO sending 1 million cholera vaccine doses to Haiti

 The World Health Organization (WHO) is sending 1 million doses of cholera vaccine to Haiti, where more than 200 cases of the killer disease have been reported since Hurricane Matthew.

WHO updates view on Zika as cause of brain abnormalities

 The World Health Organization updated its assessment of the Zika virus on Wednesday as a cause of congenital brain abnormalities in babies and Guillain-Barre syndrome, after considering months of research

Maternal mortality falls by almost 50% - UN report

 Pregnancy-related deaths have fallen by almost half in the past 25 years, according to a report by United Nations agencies published in The Lancet.