Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020, the World Health Organization said Friday. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population, the WHO said in a joint statement with the Cambodian health ministry.

High blood pressure or hypertension kills nearly 1.5 million people every year in Southeast Asia, making it the single most important risk factor for non-communicable diseases like heart attack and stroke, the World Health Organization said.With one in three adults in the Southeast Asia region suffering from high blood pressure, WHO raised alarm over the non-communicable disease, saying it's among the most important causes of premature deaths worldwide.In the run-up to World Health Day 2013, which focuses on high blood pressure this year, WHO said over one billion people are

On the occasion of celebrating the World Health Day on April 7 with a theme on hypertension, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Wednesday for greater efforts to prevent and control this disease, which is also known as high blood pressure.Hypertension is estimated to affect more than one in three adults aged 25 and over (or about one billion people) worldwide, and contributes to almost 9.4 million deaths due to heart attacks and strokes annually; it also increases the risk of conditions such as kidney failure and blindness, said Director-General Margaret Chan on a commemor

China's National Health and Family Planning Commission on Sunday notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of three cases of human infection with H7N9 bird flu in China, the WHO stated Monday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.The WHO's statement said that the cases were confirmed on Friday by Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Laboratory testing for influenza A (H3N2), A (H1N1) pdm09 and A (H5N1), as well as for novel coronavirus were negative.According to WHO, the cases were reported from Shanghai and Anhui province.