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Lead poisoning may be one of the most overlooked challenges in global health, education, and development. Exposure to lead creates a multi-pronged and permanent attack on these children’s health and development during their vulnerable and formative early years, with devastating lifelong effects. Lead exposure is associated with cognitive deficits, lower educational attainment, behavioral disorders, violence, and reduced lifetime earnings. Though data is patchy, estimates suggest that lead exposure may cause 900,000 deaths and 1 trillion dollars in economic losses every year. 

 Duburi: Reiterating its commitment towards community development, the ground-breaking of the new block of Primary Health Centre to be constructed by Tata Steel Foundation was done by Er Pritiranjan Gharei, Honb’le Minister of Rural Development,

 BackgroundThe WHO people-centred approach to addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the human health sector recognizes and aims to address the challenges and health system barriers people face when accessing health services to prevent, diagnose and treat (drug-resistant) infections. It puts people and their needs at the centre of the AMR response and guides policy-makers in taking programmatic and comprehensive actions to mitigate AMR in line with a proposed package of core interventions. These interventions are based on a review of four pillars and two foundational steps that are crit...

Join the WHO Air Quality, Energy and Health Unit for the webinar “The foundation of air quality actions” to be held on 19 October 2023 at 2-3:30pm (CEST). The webinar aims to: Launch the Improving the capacity of countries to report on air quality in cities: Users’ guide to the repository of United Nations tools report which is a primer to air quality management. Highlight step-by-step guidance for building national plans. Showcase national initiatives that integrated UN tools to improve air pollution monitoring and report as well as enhance government officials to tackle air polluti...

The World Federation of Neurology (WFN) and the Canadian Neurological Society (CNS) will host the XXVI World Congress of Neurology (WCN) in Montreal, Canada,