Health
COVID-19 recovery focus of UN General Assembly special session
Nations united on Thursday for a special session of the UN General Assembly to survey the wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic, reflect on the best response, and forge a path…
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Europe
Press Conference by EP President Sassoli and Portugal’s Prime Minister Costa | News | European Parliament
Following tomorrow’s meeting of Parliament’s Conference of Presidents, President Sassoli and Prime Minister Costa will hold a joint press conference. Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP
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UN urges ‘global solidarity, shared responsibility’ against pandemics, marking World AIDS Day
The United Nations is commemorating World AIDS Day, on Tuesday, with a call for “global solidarity and shared responsibility” to overcome not only COVID-19, but also AIDS – another global…
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New COVID-19 infections fall globally for first time since September; WHO chief urges ‘extreme caution’
Last week saw the first global decline in newly reported cases of COVID-19 since September, the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, advising that the news, while welcome, must…
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COVID-19 threatens global progress against malaria, warns UN health agency
Gaps in life-saving interventions are undermining efforts to curb malaria, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic could set back the fight against the disease even further, the UN World Health…
Health
Global HIV toll likely to be far higher owing to COVID-19, warns UNAIDS
Countries should adopt ambitious new targets to tackle HIV / AIDS to avoid hundreds of thousands of additional infections and deaths linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN said on…
Health
A child infected with HIV every 100 seconds, new UN report reveals
Approximately once every minute and 40 seconds, a child or young person under the age of 20 was infected with HIV last year, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported,…
Europe
MEPs call on EU leaders to end MFF deadlock without giving in on rule of law | News | European Parliament
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Health
COVID cases surge amid growing threat from antimicrobial resistance – WHO chief
More cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the past four weeks than in the first six months of the pandemic, the UN health agency chief told journalists on Friday…
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Remdesivir no COVID-19 silver bullet, says UN health agency
An advisory body of the UN health agency is not recommending the use of the high-profile antiviral drug Remdesivir for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, saying on Thursday there is insufficient evidence…