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  • Climate emergency is a health crisis ‘that is already killing us,’ says WHO
    06/27/2025 - With 2024 confirmed as the hottest year on record, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stark warning: the climate crisis is also a health crisis – and it’s already claiming lives. In response, WHO/Europe launched a new initiative – the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health (PECCH) – to tackle the growing threat climate change poses to public health. Chaired by former Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the commission brings together 11 leading experts from across the region tasked with delivering recommendations for actionable solutions.
  • Tobacco control efforts protect three-quarters of the world’s population, WHO report finds
    06/27/2025 - Tobacco use still claims over seven million lives a year, the World Health Organization warned, calling for greater efforts to limit its use amid rising interference from the global tobacco industry. The World Health Organization (WHO) published its 2025 report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic on Monday, focusing on the six policies outlined in the WHO MPOWER tobacco control measures. Since 2007, 155 countries have implemented at least one of those policy prescriptions which has resulted in over 6.1 billion people – that’s three-quarters of the world’s population – now benefitting: however, major gaps still remain.
  • WHO calls for global expansion of midwifery models of care
    06/27/2025 - The World Health Organization (WHO) today released new guidance to help countries adopt and expand midwifery models of care - where midwives serve as the main care provider for women and babies throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. Trusted midwives key to saving lives, improving health, and ensuring respectful care for women and newborns, says new guidance
  • Strengthening cooperation and exchange with BRICS countries key to advance priority health commitments, PAHO Director says
    06/23/2025 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, has called for joint efforts and new partnerships to address the priorities outlined in the BRICS health agenda, including innovation, equity, food systems for healthy diets, and pandemic preparedness.
  • Public health risk of yellow fever remains high in the Americas due to continued occurrence of human cases
    06/11/2025 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued a new Rapid Risk Assessment (RRA) on yellow fever in the Americas which shows that the risk to public health remains high due to continued human cases in endemic countries of the Region.
  • African Union and World Health Organization renew strategic partnership to drive impact and strengthen health systems in Africa
    05/27/2025 - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) Commission renewed their longstanding strategic partnership today with the signing of an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva.
  • Webinar “Climate emergencies and their impacts on global health and national health systems”: why do we need to talk about this?
    05/21/2025 - To discuss the consequences of global warming on the health of individuals and populations, and what can be done to better prepare national health systems for the new demands caused by climate change, RETS-CPLP is organizing the international webinar “Climate emergencies and their impacts on global health and national health systems”, featuring guest researchers Alexandre Pessoa Dias, from the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV/Fiocruz) – Brazil, and Tatiana Marrufo, from the National Institute of Health (INS/MISAU) of Mozambique. The event will take place on June 2 in Lisbon, during the 5th Ordinary Meeting of the Network, and will be broadcast on the VideoSaúde Distribuidora da Fiocruz YouTube channel. Those who are unable to watch the live session and take part in the discussions can view the recorded event later through the same link.
  • Member States approve WHO Pandemic Agreement in World Health Assembly Committee, paving way for its formal adoption
    05/20/2025 - World Health Organization Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the World Health Assembly, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of an historic global compact to make the world safer from future pandemics. The WHO Pandemic Agreement will next be considered for final adoption by the Assembly on Tuesday during the plenary session.
  • The 78th World Health Assembly meets without Argentina and the U.S.
    05/20/2025 - Under the slogan “A World United for Health”, the 78th World Health Assembly, the most important forum for global health, will meet this week in Geneva. For the first time since the creation of the World Health Organization, Argentina and the USA have not been present during the deliberations of the World Health Assembly, which brings together all the ministers and senior health authorities of the world. Perhaps the most important event of this Assembly is that countries will adopt a treaty to help the world prevent and be better prepared for pandemics. 
  • On International Nursing Day, PAHO warns of dramatic decline in nursing graduates
    05/15/2025 - Washington, D.C., May 12, 2025 (PAHO) – The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Jarbas Barbosa, has urged countries in the Americas to step up efforts to train and retain nursing professionals. The call follows the release of the State of the World’s Nursing 2025 Report by the World Health Organization (WHO), which reveals that the number of nursing graduates has dropped from 81 per 10,000 people in 2018 to just 24 per 10,000 in 2023.

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