WHO List of ten Global Health issues

The World Health Organization recently released a list of Global Health Issues. According to the WHO, these are the issues the world will have to deal with in 2021 due to inadequacies of health system created due to COVID-19. According to WHO, the pandemic could set back the global health progress achieved in the last ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs

Topics: AMR • COVID-19 • health issues • microbial resistance • WHO • World Health Organisation

WHO releases Global Health Challenges for 2020

Every year, the World Health Organization releases list of Global Health Challenges of the forth coming year. This year, on January 13, 2020, the organization had released the top global health challenges for the year. Global Health Challenges The list included 13 potential threats. The foremost threat was Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) and climate crisis. The ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020

Category: International Current Affairs

Topics: Air pollution • AMR • Climate change • Diseases • Global health • Health • Health care • health centre • WHO

India becomes a member of Global Anti-Microbial Resistance

India has recently become a member of the Global Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) Hub. The hub was launched during the 71st session of the World Health Assembly in 2018 & is headquartered in Germany. It is aimed at helping countries decide the allocation of resources for R&D on AMR by identifying gaps ..

Topics: AMR • Disease • Health • Infection • Medicine • World Health Assembly

India joins the Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Development Hub

The Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology has announced the membership of India into Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) Hub. Antimicrobial Resistance Antimicrobial Resistance is the ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication that once could successfully treat the microbe. The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance ..

Topics: AMR • Antimicrobial • Antimicrobial resistance • Antimicrobial Resistance in Australia • Evolutionary biology • Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership • Health • Pharmaceuticals policy • Veterinary medicine • World Health Assembly

India and Sweden to Increase Cooperation on Anti-Microbial Resistance R and D

The Swedish Health Minister Lena Hallengren after the meeting with Union Health Minister J P Nadda announced that  Anti-microbial resistance (AMR) is really dangerous and India and Sweden intend to boost cooperation to tackle it. Cooperation to tackle Anti-Microbial Resistance India and Sweden have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the field of various issues, including AMR, communicable diseases ..

Month: Current Affairs - February, 2019

Topics: Alliance of Champions • AMR • Anti-Microbial Resistance • India-Sweden • Sweden • Union Health Minister