"PUBLIC HEALTH"

The World Health Organization warned today that over a billion young people are at risk of hearing loss “simply by doing what they really enjoy doing a lot, which is listening regularly to music through their headphones over their devices.” UNTV CH

On the occasion of World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it is focusing on the global health challenge of cervical cancer and new momentum to eliminate the disease, one of the leading killers of women worldwide. WHO

Briefing reporters in Geneva, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, said that as we approach six months since the declaration of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), “we can clearly see the strategies that have been successful in controlling the outbreak in some of the affected areas.” WHO

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

United Nations anti-crime chief spotlights alarming drug trafficking trends in West, Central Africa, outlining disruption efforts to Security Council at 8433rd meeting.

Applauding Afghan people’s courage, Special Representative tells Security Council they defied ‘undeniable threats’ to vote for better future at 8426th meeting.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

In a report issued today, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of a “worrying uptick” in the number of measles cases with a 30 percent rise in the dangerous disease in 2017. WHO

A top UN official told the Security Council that any confirmed use of chemical weapons “is abhorrent and a clear violation of international law” following the reported use of chlorine in Syria’s Aleppo City. UNIFEED

The World Health Organization said 107 of Yemen’s 333 districts are at risk of famine with some 220,000 people facing severe acute malnutrition. WHO