Blogs tagged world health organization

The statistics around obesity are shocking. According to recent estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO), over 1.9 billion adults worldwide are overweight. Of these, more than 600 million are obese. Even more distressing is the fact... Read More »

December 1st is World AIDS Day. It’s the perfect time for a renewed commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS. AIDS and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, remain in the news and in the global consciousness. There is no known cure, and since... Read More »

Water equals life. It’s really that simple. Yet according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, 768 million people in the world lack access to an improved source of clean drinking water. That’s roughly one in ten of the entire... Read More »