• Further to the request of the Executive Board during its special session on the Ebola emergency in January 2015,1 and reflecting many of the recommendations from the series of evaluations carried out during and after the Ebola crisis in West Africa, WHO has undertaken substantive reform of the way that it works in emergencies with health consequences. (who.int)
  • In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the second-largest Ebola outbreak ever remains classified by the WHO as a "public health emergency of international concern. (mg.co.za)
  • Unfortunately in DR Congo, two outbreaks of the Ebola virus disease were recorded in 2018. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • This has now become the second largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • The virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), which was where one of the first outbreaks occurred back in 1976. (colindurrant.co.uk)
  • In the United States, two health-care workers have tested negative for Ebola for the second time. (msrisk.com)
  • The BBC has launched an Ebola public health information service on WhatsApp . (msrisk.com)
  • The latest outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa has killed at least 712 people so far , and hundreds of others are suspected to have died because of the illness. (globalvoices.org)
  • Outbreak" tells the story of a made-up Ebola-like virus called Motaba first detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how US health agencies and the army contain its spread. (globalvoices.org)
  • But it's worthwhile to ask, would airlines companies have canceled their flights because of the Ebola scare as swiftly if the outbreak took place on a different continent? (globalvoices.org)
  • And is USA Basketball's decision to cancel their trip to Senegal because of the Ebola scare - although Senegal has not been affected by the virus - solely based on the outbreak or more general concerns regarding health safety throughout the continent? (globalvoices.org)
  • This by no means is to suggest that the Ebola outbreak is not to be taken seriously. (globalvoices.org)
  • The country lost nearly 4000 people during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. (ubcentral.org)
  • It shows that we have learned some of the stark lessons of the deadly 2014 Ebola outbreak and are well on our way to stopping the cycle of panic and neglect. (worldbank.org)
  • In West Africa, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Togo and recently Cote D'Ivoire have all recorded cases. (spiritfmonline.com)
  • If the new coronavirus can strain China's ability to respond, it will pose even greater risks in sub-Saharan Africa, where health systems are significantly more fragile. (mg.co.za)
  • Cameroon and Togo confirmed their first cases of coronavirus on Friday, bringing the number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa reporting infections to five. (immihaber.com)
  • Dr Matshidiso Moeti , WHO Regional Director for Africa, looks back on 2018, the year that marked the 70th anniversary of the World Health Organisation, and what the Regional Office for Africa, member states, and partners have achieved together in the past two years, as well as what still needs to done for more people in Africa to enjoy better health and well-being. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • With Africa's largest population, its largest economy and its largest city what happens in Nigeria affects what happens in Africa. (bvsalud.org)
  • Three of these have been associated with large outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever in Africa. (colindurrant.co.uk)
  • Sensitive surveillance and continued rapid response supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) † are key to limiting further WPV spread, interrupting the outbreaks, and allowing the polio prevention focus in Africa to return to eradicating polio in countries with persistent WPV transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • The European Union has set up a 900 million euro ($998 million) budget to help countries hit by humanitarian crises, with Africa getting the largest share of the money. (kff.org)
  • Ngojobsinafrica.com is Africa's largest Job site that focuses only on Non-Government Organization job Opportunities across Africa. (ngojobsinafrica.com)
  • We are your one stop site for all NGO Jobs in Africa. (ngojobsinafrica.com)
  • This, according to the country's health minister, made them one of only two countries in Africa with the facilities to test for the virus before it even arose. (ubcentral.org)
  • The World Health Organization's recommended pandemic influenza interventions, based on limited data, vary by transmission pattern, pandemic phase, and illness severity and extent. (cdc.gov)
  • Reports from many countries indicate that mandatory case reporting and isolating patients during the influenza pandemic of 1918 did not stop virus transmission and were impractical. (cdc.gov)
  • The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Coronavirus disease as "a pandemic. (spiritfmonline.com)
  • Nine more people died Monday in Riverside County of complications from the coronavirus, the largest number of deaths reported in a single day in the county since the pandemic began, health officials said. (latimes.com)
  • Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE), gave an epidemiological update on the COVID-19 pandemic, noting "the grim milestone" of 50 million cases globally. (travel-impact-newswire.com)
  • Although the question of Taiwanese membership in WHO and its participation in the World Health Assembly remains a question for Member States, WHO works with all health authorities who are facing the current coronavirus pandemic, including Taiwanese health experts . (travel-impact-newswire.com)
  • Although we have lost so many health and care workers already, we will lose many more as long as the pandemic rages. (africanexecutive.com)
  • Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, mainstream epidemiology and public health entities doubted - or even rejected - the efficacy of lockdowns and mass quarantines because they were considered ineffective. (tapnewswire.com)
  • Africa's health systems also have a significant dearth of medical professionals, with one doctor for every 5 000 people (versus 14 doctors per 5 000 people in the UK, for instance). (mg.co.za)
  • As Africa's largest trading partner, slowing Chinese demand is already depressing African economies, especially resource-dependent ones such as Nigeria's, which depends on oil for more than half of government revenues and has watched global prices fall 13% this year. (mg.co.za)
  • At least 3 300 people have been infected and more than 2 250 people have died in a crisis that continues to strain the already-fragile health system of Africa's fourth-largest country. (mg.co.za)
  • The objective was to explore the perceived added value of LAI-PrEP as an HIV prevention tool among MSM in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Togo. (bvsalud.org)
  • By the end of 2007, control efforts in all countries except Angola, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Niger, and Sudan had stopped transmission of WPV1 caused by these importations. (cdc.gov)
  • All of this even as the already fragile health system has been left to deal with COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • NGOs reported in 2020 that they stopped holding events outside private locations due to longstanding government suppression and pressure on owners of public gathering spaces. (state.gov)
  • A man, wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks on a street near Tamachi station in Tokyo, Japan March 8, 2020. (immihaber.com)
  • On Thursday 30 January 2020, the WHO declared the Wuhan epidemic an International Public Health Emergency. (africanarguments.org)
  • Early into 2020, Fauci spoke to reporters saying, "That's something that I don't think we could possibly do in the United States, I can't imagine shutting down New York or Los Angeles, but the judgement on the part of the Chinese health authorities is that given the fact that it's spreading throughout the provinces… it's their judgement that this is something that in fact is going to help in containing it. (tapnewswire.com)
  • In 2003, a WPV1 importation event originating in Nigeria caused an outbreak of 51 polio cases in Chad. (cdc.gov)
  • This report describes the work that WHO is undertaking at global, regional and country levels to improve coordination of the response to emergencies with health consequences. (who.int)
  • Strong coordination both of all health actors in emergencies and of collaboration with actors in other sectors is vital to ensuring the predictability, coherence and effectiveness of emergency operations. (who.int)
  • The present report describes the steps that WHO has taken to strengthen internal coordination for emergency response across the three levels of the Organization and external coordination with partners working on emergencies with health consequences. (who.int)
  • Recent history shows that the world is not fully prepared to prevent, detect and respond to large- scale health emergencies. (who.int)
  • We can build on our achievements to realise the bold global triple billion targets, where WHO aims to ensure that by 2023 one billion more people benefit from universal health coverage, one billion more people have better protection from health emergencies, and one billion more people enjoy better health and well-being. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • Our work will be rearranged into three pillars to match the triple billion targets: Universal Health Coverage, Health Emergencies, and Health Promotion, with results being driven at the country level. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • We build mobile & web tools that register pregnancies, track outbreaks, monitor medicine stock, and communicate emergencies. (ngojobsinafrica.com)
  • In the same year there was another outbreak recorded in Sudan. (colindurrant.co.uk)
  • The Sudan outbreak subsided, and no additional related WPV1 polio cases attributable to the 2004 importation into Sudan were detected until April 2008, after which 53 additional cases were detected: three cases in Ethiopia, two in northern Kenya, five in Uganda ( Table 1 ), and 43 in Sudan itself ( Table 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • An outbreak associated with an importation event is defined as two or more polio cases caused by WPV genetically related to the identified imported WPV case with earliest onset. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite the coronavirus outbreak, Olympic organisers in Japan insist that the Games in Tokyo will take place as planned. (mg.co.za)
  • Health Minister Jens Spahn called on organisers of large public events to cancel them and urged people to stay at home. (immihaber.com)
  • The SPH Portal provides a comprehensive one-stop platform for partners and donors to identify gaps in a country's health security capacities, assess opportunities to target their financial and technical resources for the maximum public health benefit, and explore mechanisms for collaboration with countries. (who.int)
  • Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte will declare a public health emergency after the country recorded its first case of community transmission, officials said on Saturday. (immihaber.com)
  • Federal health officials said Friday they will begin screening airline passengers arriving at three U.S. airports for a new virus from central China … Starting immediately, the screenings will be conducted at specially designated areas of three international airports - Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York's John F. Kennedy…" (Sun, 1/17). (kff.org)
  • EVD transmission remains persistent and widespread in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with World Health Organization (WHO) officials particularly concerned about the spread of the disease in the capital cities - Conakry, Monrovia and Freetown - where people are able to freely move across borders. (msrisk.com)
  • Sierra Leone health officials required that all disembarking passengers be quarantined for 14 days. (ubcentral.org)
  • The need for improved coordination among the various actors involved in health emergency preparedness and response has never been more pressing. (who.int)
  • The SPH Portal also furnishes stakeholders with documents, data, and resources encompassing critical areas essential for advancing global health security and emergency preparedness. (who.int)
  • He also disclosed that the government has committed a whopping $100 million to improve its preparedness and response to a possible outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (spiritfmonline.com)
  • Ghana's entry points, such as her airports and land borders, he noted, continue to show satisfactory preparedness to screen all entrants into the country, with the Ministry of Health designating a quarantine facility that can hold infected persons, whilst regional hospitals are preparing isolation centres for holding suspected cases. (spiritfmonline.com)
  • Following the declaration of the outbreak as a Grade 2 emergency on 22 January 2016, WHO rapidly established an Organization-wide incident management system to support ongoing efforts by the Pan-American Health Organization and to coordinate the global response. (who.int)
  • But after 2016 I stopped my annual post because numbers were dropping fast. (blogspot.com)
  • Limited budgets and reductions in services for families and children will compound the effects of the health, economic, and social crisis. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Yemen is the world's largest humanitarian crisis with more than 20 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. (bvsalud.org)
  • Almost 18 months into the defining health crisis of our age, the world remains in a very dangerous situation. (africanexecutive.com)
  • As fear of the virus spreads around the world, this very real international public health crisis has reminded some of a fictional crisis made into a movie nearly 20 years ago featuring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman, to name a few. (globalvoices.org)
  • The number of cases in Britain has risen to 273, the Department of Health said on Twitter on Sunday, up from 209 a day earlier, and the biggest one-day increase so far. (immihaber.com)
  • The death rate in the current outbreak has risen to 70 percent from the previously estimated mortality rate of 50 percent. (msrisk.com)
  • He called on churches, universities and other groups that organise events that host large gatherings to put in mechanisms to protect people in the face of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. (spiritfmonline.com)
  • Americans, especially those who are vulnerable, may need to stop attending big gatherings as the coronavirus spreads through U.S. communities, a top health official said on Sunday, adding that the possibility of large-scale quarantines cannot be ruled out. (immihaber.com)
  • At the time of publication, the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) figures included three more cases in Senegal, as well as one in Togo. (mg.co.za)
  • 2022 - Gabon and Togo join the Commonwealth. (yahoo.com)
  • Vaccination with JYNNEOS vaccine (Modified Vaccinia Ankara vaccine, Bavarian Nordic) to prevent monkeypox commenced shortly after confirmation of the first monkeypox case in the current outbreak in the United States on May 17, 2022 (1). (cdc.gov)
  • As of today, there have been a total of 50 cases and 27 deaths from the current outbreak. (worldbank.org)
  • Over the next 12 to 18 months, all aspects of the Programme will be operationalized, optimizing partnerships and networks to leverage system-wide capacities for emergency work in health. (who.int)
  • The SPH Portal is an interactive digital platform that facilitates the sharing and exchange of information regarding multisectoral health security investments, activities, and capacities at national, regional, and global levels. (who.int)
  • That outbreak is second only to the 2014 West African outbreak, which infected 28,616 people and killed 11 310 in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. (mg.co.za)
  • Reuters) - The number of people infected with coronavirus topped 110,000 across the world as the outbreak reached more countries and caused more economic damage. (immihaber.com)
  • Iran said 194 people had died from coronavirus and 6,566 were now infected, in a TV announcement by the Health Ministry on Sunday. (immihaber.com)
  • As we reflect on the past year, I would like to express my gratitude to all our partners and member states for their commitment to improving the health of the people in the African Region. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • These actions undermine COVAX and deprive health workers and vulnerable people around the world of life-saving vaccines. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this International Year of the Health and Care Worker, we have all been reminded that these are incredible people doing incredible jobs under incredible circumstances. (africanexecutive.com)
  • Just as health and care workers are the lifeblood of every health system, so the lifeblood of WHO is its staff - the incredible people all over the world I am honoured to call my colleagues, in country and regional offices, and here at headquarters. (africanexecutive.com)
  • On the latter point he warns against healthy people wearing masks, noting: "Evidence from the SARS outbreak suggests that most health care workers infected themselves while removing protective equipment. (tapnewswire.com)
  • The 2012 outbreak in Uganda was controlled by placing a control area around its treatment centre. (colindurrant.co.uk)
  • In Canada, the medical officer of health for the province of Alberta concluded that forced home isolation of patients, posting signs on houses, and "quarantine" (details unspecified) captured only ≈60% of patients in the community because of diagnostic difficulties involving mild cases and failure to notify cases to authorities. (cdc.gov)
  • As the medical officer noted, "many citizens regarded the placard [sign outside the quarantined person's house] as an injustice, either because they did not believe the diagnosis justified, or because their neighbors were alleged by them to be avoiding quarantine by concealment or evasion… Charges of discrimination were frequently made against the health department" ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Yanzhong Huang acknowledges that "travel restrictions and quarantine measures have limited benefit in stopping the spread of disease […] affecting travel and trade, dissuading the very kind of transparency and openness essential for a global response to disease outbreaks. (tapnewswire.com)
  • The committee will [meet on Wednesday] to decide whether it constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, or a PHEIC…" (Branswell, 1/20). (kff.org)
  • Standard operating procedures are being developed to ensure coherent approaches to emergency health information, risk assessment, grading and emergency response across the Programme. (who.int)
  • This new general programme of work is shifting the way we measure results, with greater emphasis being placed on the contribution of the WHO African Region (WHO/AFRO) to health outcomes and impact. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • We have continued to implement the Framework for Health Systems Development to advance universal health coverage using our UHC Flagship Programme. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • All administrative districts in Liberia and Sierra Leone have now reported at least one confirmed or probable case of EVD since the outbreak began. (msrisk.com)
  • Airlines were given 72-hours notice to stop all flights to Sierra Leone effective March 21. (ubcentral.org)
  • Effective application of this new approach to multicountry, multiregional events was demonstrated in the response to the outbreak of Zika virus disease. (who.int)
  • A patient diagnosed with coronavirus died in Argentina on Saturday, the Health Ministry said, marking the first death related to the virus in Latin America. (immihaber.com)
  • There have been cases of numerous health care workers contracting the virus from patients, and the WHO has issued guidance for dealing with confirmed or suspected cases of the virus. (colindurrant.co.uk)
  • The World Health Organization announced Monday that it would convene an expert panel to determine whether a fast-developing outbreak caused by a new virus in China should be declared a global health emergency. (kff.org)
  • Together, H-Force is working bring their resources, expertise and innovative spirit to bear to support the Houston community band together to stop the virus spread. (uh.edu)
  • As she made her daily rounds, providing information about the dangers of the new virus, Lucy was insulted in the streets and she and her team sometimes had to stop working for their own safety. (africanexecutive.com)
  • This virus, which affects the respiratory system , is being taken seriously in the US after seeing what worked (and didn't work) during the outbreaks in China, Italy, South Korea, and Spain. (canadianpharmacyworld.com)
  • The heat of the African climate stops the virus surviving. (africanarguments.org)
  • In line with the International Health Regulations requirements, 10 member states conducted Joint External Evaluations (JEEs) to identify and address gaps in health security. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • We see communication gaps through the eyes of community-based health workers and patients, guiding our partners towards low-cost technologies and efficient health services. (ngojobsinafrica.com)
  • Moreover, we have ample evidence that stress and trauma in adolescence lead to a lifetime of mental health challenges. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Central to improved coordination is the concept of the Global Health Emergency Workforce, comprising national responders and international responders from networks and partnerships. (who.int)
  • Child laborers are a large share of the global population living in extreme poverty. (unicef-irc.org)
  • He warned that "a vaccine cannot address the global under-investment in essential public health functions and resilient health systems, nor the urgent need for a "One Health" approach that encompasses the health of humans, animals and the planet we share. (travel-impact-newswire.com)
  • The WHO Director-General's Health Leaders Award for outstanding leadership in global health was awarded to Her Royal Highness Princess Muna Al-Hussein of Jordan, the Honourable Minister for Health of the Kingdom of Tonga, Dr Amelia Afuhaamango Tuipulotu, and the Kingdom of Tonga's Nurses' Choir. (travel-impact-newswire.com)
  • As part of our commitment to strengthening the health and care workforce globally, as well as our own workforce, the WHO Academy will be a major addition to global health learning. (africanexecutive.com)
  • Published in The Lancet Haematology, the study was conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, or IHME, based in Seattle, and its Global Burden of Disease anemia collaborators. (lakeconews.com)
  • We design, build, deliver, and support open-source software for health workers and health systems - helping provide better care that reaches everyone.Each member of our team was drawn to this mission and emboldened by a vision of global health equity. (ngojobsinafrica.com)
  • We must also remember that for more than a year now many countries have successfully prevented or controlled transmission without vaccines and with proven public health measures. (bvsalud.org)
  • The county now has the third-largest number of COVID-19 cases in the state , behind San Diego (1,847) and Los Angeles (9,480), records show. (latimes.com)
  • Mainland China, where the outbreak began, had 40 new cases as of Sunday, down from 44 cases a day earlier. (immihaber.com)
  • An outbreak is considered over once 42 days - double the incubation period of the disease - have passed without any new cases. (colindurrant.co.uk)
  • these seem to be under control, but we do not know how many cases are not being identified, and the capacity of the health systems to manage a large number of patients in intensive care is a major source of uncertainty. (africanarguments.org)
  • JYNNEOS vaccine is licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a 0.5-mL 2-dose series administered subcutaneously 28 days apart to prevent smallpox and monkeypox infections (2) and has been found to provide protection against monkeypox infection during the current outbreak (3). (cdc.gov)
  • Japan's health minister said testing capacity would increase by the end of the month, as national health insurance begins to cover it. (immihaber.com)
  • Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns as Prime Minister due to ill health and the Chancellor Herbert Henry Asquith takes over as Prime Minister, staying in post until 1916. (caat.org.uk)
  • Another health-care worker remains in isolation and is receiving treatment. (msrisk.com)
  • The Chair of the Review Committee on the functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) during COVID-19 response , Professor Lothar H. Wieler, President of the Robert Koch Institute, Germany provided an update on the work of the Committee and its preliminary findings. (travel-impact-newswire.com)
  • If we have any hope of achieving a healthier, safer, fairer future, every Member State must protect and invest in its health and care workforce as a matter of urgency. (africanexecutive.com)
  • Moldova has reported its first confirmed coronavirus case, the Health Ministry said late on Saturday. (immihaber.com)
  • Paraguay has registered its first case, the Health Ministry said on Twitter on Saturday. (immihaber.com)
  • A 60-year-old German tourist has died in Egypt, becoming its first fatality from the new coronavirus, the Health Ministry in Cairo announced on Sunday. (immihaber.com)
  • These actions can be identified through comprehensive tools such as all-hazards National Action Plans for Health Security (NAPHS), disease-specific plans, contingency plans, and other sources. (who.int)
  • Patients are isolated and then supported by health care workers. (colindurrant.co.uk)
  • For almost 18 months, health and care workers all over the world have stood in the breach between life and death. (africanexecutive.com)
  • Many have themselves become infected, and while reporting is scant, we estimate that at least 115,000 health and care workers have paid the ultimate price in the service of others. (africanexecutive.com)
  • Health and care workers do heroic things, but they are not superheroes. (africanexecutive.com)
  • We owe them so much, and yet globally health and care workers often lack the protection, the equipment, the training, the decent pay, the safe working conditions and the respect they deserve. (africanexecutive.com)
  • First responders and healthcare workers are needed at the front lines, so it's up to the rest of us to help stem the spread and protect them (and those around us) so that we don't overburden the hospital system with a larger caseload than they can handle at any given time. (canadianpharmacyworld.com)
  • We are all health workers. (ngojobsinafrica.com)
  • Increased parental mortality due to COVID-19 will force children into child labour, including the worst forms such as work that harms the health and safety of children. (unicef-irc.org)
  • We continue to work with the Congolese government, the UN system and other partners to ensure that this outbreak is stopped. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • Country Capacity refers to the combination of strengths, attributes, and resources available within a country to effectively manage and reduce health emergency risks while enhancing resilience. (who.int)
  • The second outbreak, which was declared a week later in the east of the country, has, however, been very challenging to control, largely due to insecurity in the area. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • Its health service also offers a network of 498 polyclinics spread throughout the country, many of which offer specialist treatments more commonly found in large hospitals. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • In just a matter of weeks, the COVID-19 outbreak has already had drastic consequences for children. (unicef-irc.org)
  • How parental health affects child labourWithout plausible forecasts on the extent of morbidity and mortality globally, it is impossible to gauge the rise in child labour as a direct result of the health consequences of COVID-19. (unicef-irc.org)
  • National bodies involved in these activities (the National Institute of Public Health, the National Health Security Agency) as well as international bodies such as the Pasteur Institute of Guinea (IPEGUI, France) and the Centre for Research in Epidemiology-Microbiology and Medical Care (CREMS, Russia) emerged as major players in these discussions. (africanarguments.org)
  • The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that the new coronavirus was likely to spread to other parts of China and possibly other countries in coming days. (kff.org)
  • The PEF, an innovative financing mechanism set up by the World Bank Group in partnership with Japan, Germany, the World Health Organization (WHO), and private sector partners, has been operational since July 2017 and consists of both a cash and an insurance component . (worldbank.org)
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allocated 1.1 million vials of JYNNEOS vaccine from the Strategic National Stockpile, with doses allocated to jurisdictions based on case counts and estimated size of population at risk (4). (cdc.gov)
  • WHO is strengthening the management of its emergency operations through the adoption and institutionalization of an incident management system - a best practice approach that is increasingly being taken up by public health and emergency agencies worldwide. (who.int)
  • Traveling nurse Gail Cunningham waves thanks as residents pay tribute to her and her medical personnel during a drive-by rally honoring frontline heroes at the Emergency Room entrance to Riverside University Health System in Moreno Valley. (latimes.com)
  • now, they're the hottest topics and primary points of discussion as everyone bands together to try to stop the spread of coronavirus. (canadianpharmacyworld.com)