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Ensure safe and hygienic sanitation for all, UN urges, marking World Toilet Day
The UN is marking World Toilet Day on Thursday, in a bid to reinforce the need for equal access to sanitation for all. More than a quarter of the global…
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Ensure safe and hygienic sanitation for all, UN urges, marking World Toilet Day
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Future of an entire generation at risk, as COVID-19 pandemic drags on
While symptoms among children infected with COVID-19 mostly remain mild, infections are rising and the longer-term impact on the education, nutrition and well-being of an entire generation of young people…
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Silent Pandemic: Overuse renders antimicrobials less effective – UN agriculture agency
People, plants and animals around the world are dying from untreatable infections – even with the best medicines available – due to a rise in antimicrobial resistance, the UN food…
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Latest Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is declared over, with lessons for COVID-19
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus disease in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is over, the government announced on Wednesday, after a five-month response supported by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), and other…
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Persons living with disabilities ‘have very special abilities’, UN deputy chief tells young Ghanaians
During her visit to Ghana on Monday, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed met with young people living with HIV and disabilities in the capital, Accra.
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New partnership to boost maternal and newborn health in East and Southern Africa
Some 10,000 health workers will be trained to support mothers and newborns in Africa through a partnership between the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and Laerdal Global Health, the non-profit arm of…
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UN-backed fund to address crisis in global sanitation and hygiene
A UN-backed fund, launched on Tuesday, is set to take on the centuries-old crisis centred around sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health, which now impacts more than four billion people across…
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WHO rolls out plan to rid world of cervical cancer, saving millions of lives
The World Health Organization (WHO) set out a strategy on Tuesday for eliminating cervical cancer, which would avoid the death of an estimated five million women and girls from the disease,…
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No time for complacency as COVID-19 cases surge: WHO chief
Despite encouraging news about COVID-19 vaccines and cautious optimism over potential new tools against the disease, “this is not the time for complacency,” the head of the World Health Organization…
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Diabetes increasing COVID risks, showing need to strengthen health systems
As the number of people with diabetes surges, many are at “increased risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19”, the UN chief said in his message for World Diabetes…