Artificial sweeteners should not be used to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), according to a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline issued on Monday.  “Non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of their diet altogether, starting early in life, […] Continue reading ->
HIV activists want the US government to appeal Tuesday’s court ruling that pharmaceutical company Gilead did not infringe on patents held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to two anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. The US government had claimed $1 billion in patent violations in relation to the use of Gilead’s Truvada and […] Continue reading ->
There is widespread speculation that the World Health Organization (WHO) will decide that COVID-19 is no longer a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” when its expert group convenes on Thursday. The 15th meeting of the Emergency Committee for COVID-19 has been convened by the WHO Director-General in terms of the International Health Regulations […] Continue reading ->
Uganda’s Parliament passed a revised Anti-Homosexuality Bill on Tuesday, retaining executions for certain same-sex activity and introducing harsher penalties for some categories of ‘offences’. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had declined to sign into law an earlier version of the Bill after the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) had advised him that it would be open to […] Continue reading ->
Negotiations to tighten up the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR) to make them pandemic-ready made “excellent progress” – but it still faces enormous obstacles. WHO member states spent four days last week addressing 100 of the 300 proposed amendments to the IHR, dealing particularly with compliance, implementation, and public health response.  In […] Continue reading ->
Did you know❓ The WHO Health Inequality Data Repository is the largest global collection of inequality data about health and its determinants. How can inequality data save lives? By identifying who is being left behind 👉https://t.co/bxtt1TPnVu #HealthForAll pic.twitter.com/UM2Ns9RppC — World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) April 20, 2023 The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the […] Continue reading ->
A South African group that promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories claims to have issued a high court application to challenge the authorisation of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by the country’s health minister and regulatory authority – but the health department has not been served with any legal papers. In a recent publicity drive, the Freedom Alliance […] Continue reading ->
A Chinese woman has become the world’s first person to die from the H3N8 strain of bird flu, the World Health Organization reported. No human-to-human transmission appears to have occurred, and the risk of the virus spreading is considered to be “low”, officials said. The 56-year-old woman from China’s southern Guangdong province is the third […] Continue reading ->