World Bank approves US$8M grant to strengthen essential mental health services in Sint Maarten
The Improving Mental Health Services Project is the twelfth project to be approved as part of the Sint Maarten Trust Fund Program. First proposed in 2021, the team led by World Bank experts made great strides over the last year to strategically design...
Daily statin reduces heart disease risk among adults living with HIV
A National Institute of Health-supported study found that statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering medications, may offset the high risk of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV by more than a third, potentially preventing one in five major...
NIH awards will fund Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome research
Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), which is a collection of symptoms, such as pain, fatigue, and difficulty thinking or “brain fog,” which linger following standard treatment for Lyme disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
WHO announces Acute Care Action Network for emergency, critical and operative care
Following the resolution to strengthen access to quality emergency, critical and operative care (ECO) services across the globe approved at the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization has announced the Acute Care Action...
World must be ready to respond to next pandemic: WHO chief
A woman shows her COVID-19 vaccine card alongside her sisters in Kano, Nigeria.
WHO chief declares end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency
Nurses work at a mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Rofunta, Sierra Leone, in...
FAO makes case for meat, eggs and milk as ‘essential source of nutrients’
The dairy cow is an important agricultural asset in rural villages, signifying...
World Chagas Day calls for primary health care to track ‘silent’ disease
Early screening can make Chagas a disease of the past, said UNITAID, a global agency hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), on the occasion of World Chagas Disease Day, observed on Friday.
Researchers study enhanced genetic animal model of Down syndrome
The new mouse model, known as Ts66Yah, has a minichromosome with over a hundred genes from...
HIV self-testing to take off in India: findings from the STAR Initiative
WHO recommends HIV self-testing (HIVST) as an important approach to address gaps in HIV diagnoses including among key populations (sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who inject drugs, and people in prisons other closed...
