The UN’s Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) has announced a grant of USD 250,000 to the Swedish Institute for Standards (SIS) to support the participation of Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) in the development of global quality standards for menstrual products. As the secretariat of the technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) – ISO/TC…
By Rose Muasya When was the last time you donated blood? Or perhaps you needed blood but couldn’t find any unless you rallied relatives to donate? Across the border in Uganda, our neighbors have embraced digital tools to aid in blood donation, revolutionizing the way they approach this critical issue. In Uganda, a WhatsApp group…
The World Health Organization (WHO) and TikTok, a platform for short-form mobile videos, announced a year-long collaboration aimed at providing people with reliable, science-based health information. This reflects WHO’s commitment to leveraging multiple digital communication platforms to increase outreach to people globally, to promote health literacy, healthy behaviours and actions in an increasingly digitized world. Social media…