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World must ‘speed up’ efforts to end AIDS pandemic by 2030
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World must ‘speed up’ efforts to end AIDS pandemic by 2030

To end AIDS, beat COVID-19 and “stop the pandemics of the future”, the world needs to ensure global access to lifesaving health technologies, the UN Chef de Cabinet has told…

10 June 2022 · 3 min read

Sri Lanka: UN appeals for million for life-saving aid to 1.7 million people
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Sri Lanka: UN appeals for $47 million for life-saving aid to 1.7 million people

Sri Lanka is experiencing a multidimensional economic crisis, which is compounded by food insecurity, rising protection concerns and shortages threatening lives and livelihoods, the UN said on Thursday, appealing for…

9 June 2022 · 5 min read

World Food Safety Day highlights need to improve health, prevent foodborne risks 
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World Food Safety Day highlights need to improve health, prevent foodborne risks 

Safe food is one of the most critical guarantors for good health, the UN said on Tuesday – the fourth global World Food Safety Day – aiming to mobilize action…

7 June 2022 · 3 min read

Africa: Dramatic drop forecast in COVID deaths, but no time to ‘sit back and relax’
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Africa: Dramatic drop forecast in COVID deaths, but no time to ‘sit back and relax’

COVID-19 deaths in Africa are forecast to decrease by 94 per cent this year compared to last year the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

2 June 2022 · 4 min read

Monkeypox transmission may have gone undetected ‘for some time’
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Monkeypox transmission may have gone undetected ‘for some time’

Thirty non-endemic countries have reported more than 550 confirmed cases of monkeypox, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

1 June 2022 · 4 min read

Over a billion methamphetamine tabs seized in East and Southeast Asia
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Over a billion methamphetamine tabs seized in East and Southeast Asia

More than one billion methamphetamine tablets were seized in East and Southeast Asia last year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned.

31 May 2022 · 3 min read

Make tobacco industry accountable for environmental damage: UN health agency
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Make tobacco industry accountable for environmental damage: UN health agency

The tobacco industry damages both the environment and human health, and needs to be more accountable for the destruction it causes, declared the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday.

31 May 2022 · 2 min read

Tedros re-elected to lead the World Health Organization
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Tedros re-elected to lead the World Health Organization

The Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, re-elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year term as Director-General of the world’s leading public health agency.

24 May 2022 · 3 min read

Nations must ‘act together, urgently and with solidarity’ to end crisis of food insecurity
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Nations must ‘act together, urgently and with solidarity’ to end crisis of food insecurity

Hunger levels around the world are at “a new high”, the UN chief said on Wednesday, in a call to action to fight the current surge in global food insecurity.

18 May 2022 · 5 min read

Americas: Rising COVID-19 caseload should be a ‘wake-up call’
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Americas: Rising COVID-19 caseload should be a ‘wake-up call’

COVID-19 rates are on the rise in the Americas, where new infections and fatalities have been steadily increasing over the past four weeks, the regional office of the World Health…

18 May 2022 · 4 min read