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Dec102025 by GHealth NewsNo Comments

EU and WHO Launch €3.5M Partnership to Strengthen Global Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

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GHealth News - The European Commission and the World Health Organization have signed a €3.5 million EU4Health agreement aimed at strengthening the global fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Through this partnership, the WHO will enhance its monitoring of antimicrobial and medical countermeasure development, create guidance for new antibacterial innovations, and advance the implementation of its Priority Pathogen Lists to help steer research and public-health strategies worldwide. The agreement also supports efforts to improve access to both new and existing antibiotics. Ahead of her meeting with WHO Regional Directors for Europe and Africa, Dr Hans Kluge and Dr Mohamed Yakub Janabi, EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib emphasized the ur...

Nov212025 by GHealth NewsNo Comments

Ethiopia Confirms Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak

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GHealth News - Ethiopia has reported a confirmed outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in its southern region, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Marburg is among the most lethal viruses known. Similar to Ebola, it leads to severe bleeding, high fever, vomiting, and diarrhoea, with an incubation period of up to 21 days. It spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids and carries a fatality rate ranging from 25% to 80%. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is Ethiopian, announced on Friday that at least nine infections had been identified in southern Ethiopia. His statement came two days after Africa CDC received reports of a suspected haemorrhagic fever in the area. “Marburg virus disease (MVD) has been confirmed...

Sep202025 by GHealth NewsNo Comments

Apple used AI to uncover new blood pressure notification feature in Watch

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GHealth News - Apple Watch Series 11 models that go on sale on Friday can notify users that they may have high blood pressure, in a feature the company has powered using artificial intelligence rather than a blood pressure monitor. The notification feature, which will work with models back to the Apple Watch Series 9, came about from applying AI models to existing sensor data, said Sumbul Ahmad Desai, Apple's vice president of health. Apple had been interested for years in trying to identify high blood pressure, she told Reuters. The condition affects more than 1 billion people globally, but half of the adults with it go undiagnosed, in part because the standard for measuring blood pressure - a cuff called a sphygmomanometer - is something many people encounter only at a doctor's ...

Sep202025 by GHealth NewsNo Comments

WHO Launches First Global Guideline on Balanced Access to Controlled Medicines

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the full edition of its guideline on balanced national controlled medicines policies, the first comprehensive global framework aimed at ensuring access to controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes, while reducing the risks of misuse and diversion. This follows an initial rapid communication presented at the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly, which introduced the guideline. Controlled medicines such as opioids, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and amphetamines are vital for pain relief, surgery, seizure management, palliative care, and the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. Yet, millions of patients around the world remain unable to obtain them. WHO estimates that up to 98% of patients in low-income...

May302025 by GHealth NewsNo Comments

Cholera Kills 172 in a Week as Sudan’s Health System Collapses Under War

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GHealth News - Sudan is facing a sharp rise in cholera cases amid ongoing war, with 2,700 infections and 172 deaths reported in just the past week, according to the Ministry of Health. Khartoum state accounts for 90% of these cases, as drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have crippled water and power infrastructure. The RSF recently targeted power stations in Khartoum, disabling electricity and halting clean water supply, which has forced residents to rely on unsafe sources. The medical group Doctors Without Borders warned that water treatment facilities can no longer operate without power. Cholera, endemic in Sudan, has worsened dramatically since the war began in April 2023, with outbreaks now more frequent and deadly due to the collapse of water, sanitatio...