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The World Health Organization has warned that only one in four people living with hypertension worldwide have their blood pressure adequately controlled, despite the availability of affordable and effective treatment. Marking this year’s World Hypertension Day on 17 May, WHO said hypertension remains the leading preventable cause of premature death globally, affecting an estimated […]
Mama Tajudeen, now in her late fifties, recalled one of her painful childhood experience that fateful morning. Growing up in Irele community of Ondo State, she was just 12, when elderly women stormed her home and forcefully dragged her immediate elder sister to perform the age long tradition of female circumcision on bare floor. “I ran […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that an estimated 4.5 million girls, many under the age of five, are at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) in 2026, as global efforts to end the harmful practice face growing financial and social pressures. In a statement issued by WHO on the International Day of […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that headache disorders are among the most common and neglected brain conditions worldwide, affecting more than 3 billion people and placing a disproportionate burden on women. In a new fact sheet released, WHO reports that four in ten people globally suffered from a headache disorder in 2021— making […]
In a decisive push to combat the global surge of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), the World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled the “3 by 35” Initiative, urging countries to raise the real prices of tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks by at least 50% by 2035. The move, recently announced on WHO official website, aims to reduce […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded the alarm on what it calls a “defining challenge of our time”: loneliness and social isolation. According to a global report released by the WHO Commission on Social Connection, one in six people worldwide suffers from loneliness—a condition now linked to over 871,000 deaths annually, averaging about 100 […]
WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called on the world to accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer, emphasizing that every unvaccinated girl and every woman without access to screening or treatment is a stark reminder that equity must be central to the fight. The Director-General who made this appeal at the 2nd Global […]
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has condemned recent attacks on health facilities and personnel amid escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, warning that such strikes are endangering access to essential health care. In a statement posted Thursday on X (formerly Twitter), Dr. Tedros urged both nations to […]
