Public Health Notes

What is Social Accountability?

January 24, 2022 Kusum Wagle 0

What is Social Accountability? Accountability= Responsibility + Answerability The term accountability refers to responsibility for the assigned job and answerability to the result of action […]

Interim Statement on COVID-19 vaccines in the context of the circulation of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Variant

January 13, 2022 Kusum Wagle 0

Key Messages: WHO has established the Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-CO-VAC) to review and assess the public health implications of emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants of […]

What is Wigglesworth Classification?

January 12, 2022 Kusum Wagle 0

First of all, let us know about the definition of Perinatal deaths: Perinatal deaths are the stillbirths with a gestation period of 28 weeks or […]

WHO: Interim Statement on Booster Doses for COVID-19 Vaccination

December 28, 2021 Kusum Wagle 0

The World Health Organization, with the support of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization and its COVID-19 Vaccines Working Group, continues to review the emerging evidence on the need for and […]

What is Omicron? Update from World Health Organization!

December 1, 2021 Kusum Wagle 0

On 26 November 2021, World Health Organization (WHO) designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group […]

Statement of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

October 31, 2021 Kusum Wagle 0

The ninth meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic took […]