WHO releases Global Health Challenges for 2020

News:The World Health Organization(WHO) has released a list of 13 urgent global health challenges for 2020.

Facts:

About the 13 challenges:

• Climate Crisis
• Delivering Health in Conflict and Crisis
• Healthcare  Equality
• Expanding Access to Medicines
• Infectious Diseases
• Preparing for Epidemics
• Dangerous Products like unsafe food, and unhealthy diets
• Investing in People Who Defend Our Health
• Keeping Teens Safe as more than one million adolescents aged 10 to 19 years die every year
• Earning Public Trust
• Harnessing New Technologies such as genome editing and artificial intelligence.
• Rise of Antimicrobial Resistance
• Clean Water, Sanitation, Hygiene as about one in four health facilities globally lack basic water, sanitation, and hygiene(WASH) services.

Additional information:

About World Health Organization (WHO)

• The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.
• It was established on 7th April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Every year,7th April is celebrated as the World Health Day.
• The WHO is a member of the United Nations Development Group. It has 194 member states.