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Plan to recruit Nepal nurses for NHS puts them ‘at risk of exploitation’

Ministers accused of turning a blind eye to potential danger of abusive recruitment practices

The Guardian - UK

Ebola outbreak in Uganda: the health system has never been better prepared

An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus was announced by Uganda’s ministry of health on 21 September 2022. Uganda has had at least six previous episodes of Ebola in 2000 (224 dead), 2007 (37 dead), 2011 (1 dead), two events in 2012 (21 dead) and 2019 (4 dead). The recently…

The Conversation

WHO cautions against unsafe medication practices

Targeted efforts on to reduce such practices and errors, says WHO Regional Director for Southeast Asia

The Hindu

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Harry Styles, Other Stars Raising Cash for WHO in Ukraine

British music stars Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran, US basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal and other celebrities will donate personal objects for a campaign launched Saturday to support healthcare in Ukraine. Seven months into Russia's war, the WHO Foundation -- an independent organization that works to raise funds to support the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Uganda confirms three more Ebola deaths

Health ministry also says four more infections confirmed in past 24 hours in outbreak detected in Mubende district.

Al Jazeera

Rajiv Bahl, M Srinivas appointed heads of ICMR, AIIMS

Dr Rajiv Bahl has been appointed for a term of three years and Dr Srinivas has been appointed for a term of five years

The Hindu

'Blood on your hands' if world steps back on tackling COVID now - WHO official

If rich nations think the pandemic is over, they should help lower-income countries reach that point too, a senior World Health Organization official told Reuters.

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Air pollution ‘causes brain damage raising risk of depression and autism in children’, new study shows

Research from Rotterdam found those who grew up around busy roads had abnormal white matter

The Independent UK

WHO says pandemic isn’t done after Biden called it ‘over’ in US

The World Health Organization said the world isn’t at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, just days after President Joe Biden declared it’s over in the United States.

Tribune News Service

BF.7: The next major COVID strain?

New COVID variants BF.7 and BA.2.75.2 are edging out BA.5 for supremacy. Will the new vaccine boosters be enough?

Salon

When the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet star and the lead singer of The Who teamed up

Stars of music and comedy, including Jimmy Nail and Roger Daltrey, performed at The Sage Gateshead in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust on this night 15 years ago

Chronicle Live

Secret vaccinations help Zimbabwe mothers protect children

Church members in Zimbabwe are getting their children vaccinated against measles in secret amid a deadly outbreak

The Independent UK

Every 2 seconds, 1 person under 70 dies of noncommunicable diseases in world: WHO report

Diseases relating to the heart, cancer, diabetes and respiratory diseases claim the lives of every one person every two seconds under the age of 70, a World Health Organisation report has said. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

COVID pandemic created immunisation gaps in Africa. Over half a million children are at risk

The COVID pandemic exposed the fault lines in health systems and national routine immunisation programmes around the world.

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The Hindu

Watch | Can the Covid-19 pandemic end soon?

A video on the present global situation with Covid-19 and the WHO’s guidelines to countries

The Guardian - UK

Non-communicable diseases kill a person under 70 every two seconds, says WHO

Chronic and mainly preventable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease outstripping infectious diseases due to inaction

The Denver Post

A Colorado teen’s long COVID isn’t just persisting — after 2 years, it’s getting worse

DENVER -- Reminders of life outside Lilly Downs’ Denver hospital room dotted the walls.

The Guardian - AU

China’s ‘hidden epidemics’: the preventable diseases that could reshape a nation

Stratospheric economic growth since the late 1970s has brought great prosperity, along with ‘western-style’ health problems that are beginning to have a devastating impact

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Irish Mirror

Is a new Covid variant set to ruin Ireland's winter? WHO chief sounds alarm

A new Covid variant that is more transmittable and “potentially more severe” could go undetected

France 24

Is the Covid-19 pandemic ‘over’? Biden’s bold declaration raises questions

US President Joe Biden and WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus both recently expressed optimism that the Covid-19 crisis may be drawing to an end. But is the pandemic really a thing of the past?

Radio France Internationale

Uganda announces first death in latest outbreak of Ebola

Uganda's health ministry has announced the country's first fatality from the highly contagious Ebola virus since 2019, declaring an outbreak in the central district of Mubende.

Al Jazeera

People dying of water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan

Nine die of gastroenteritis, diarrhoea and malaria in Sindh in the last 24 hours as the crisis overwhelms health system.

Daily Mirror

Ebola strikes again as country records first death in three years and outbreak declared

The WHO's Africa Director Matshidiso Moeti said it is the first time in more than a decade that Uganda is recording the Ebola Sudan strain and that they are working closely to investigate the source of the outbreak

Irish Mirror

Ebola outbreak from 'rare strain' declared in Uganda as first death confirmed

The country’s health ministry announced the first death - of a man in his 20s - from the virus since 2019 had been recorded.

Al Jazeera

Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak after patient dies

A young man in Uganda’s Mubende district showed symptoms and later died; there are currently eight suspect cases.

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