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15 Mar 16
Investments to reduce environmental risks in homes and workplaces are urgently needed to reduce the 12.6 million deaths attributable to unhealthy environments each year, the World Health Organisation...
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11 Mar 16
The United Nations Development Programme has come to a €59m funding agreement with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Chad.
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11 Mar 16
Many European countries’ strategies and investments for e-health are lacking, resulting in inefficient systems that are putting lives at risk, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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9 Mar 16
Efforts to build resilience to infectious diseases like Ebola are futile unless they also address systematic gender inequality, the African Development Bank has said.
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4 Mar 16
Game-changing reforms will be needed to face the global challenge of ageing populations and shrinking labour forces, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has said.
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4 Mar 16
The international community must provide the promised funding needed to fill the almost half a billion dollar gap in Syria’s health sector, the World Health Organisation's regional director has said.
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3 Mar 16
The European Commission has announced the EU will step up its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to €470m over 2017-19.
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29 Feb 16
The Indian government has unveiled its 2016/17 budget, prioritising more support for the rural poor, infrastructure and recapitalisation of the country’s banks.
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29 Feb 16
The key development role migrants play in Asia Pacific is being overlooked, preventing policies to maximise these benefits from taking shape, according to a United Nations report.
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23 Feb 16
Public sector accountability will be key in determining how well and how quickly Myanmar can progress towards shared development and prosperity, the World Bank has said.
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22 Feb 16
The World Bank has approved a $450m package to support the Philippines government’s health and education conditional cash transfer programme.
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19 Feb 16
The World Bank has announced it will make $150m immediately available to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that have been affected by the Zika virus outbreak.
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19 Feb 16
The government of Liberia and US international development agency USAID have signed a financing agreement worth almost $60m to support maternal, neonatal and child health care services in the country...
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18 Feb 16
The World Health Organization says it needs $56m to implement its global strategy to guide the international response to the spread of mosquito-borne Zika virus and associated complications.
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16 Feb 16
Sri Lanka’s “chronic” revenue shortfalls must be addressed and its economy must become more competitive and inclusive if poverty is to be reduced, the World Bank has said.
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15 Feb 16
The European Union today launched the European Medical Corps (EMC), which it hopes will enable more rapid deployment of medical and public health teams in emergencies around the world.
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11 Feb 16
Efforts to eliminate poverty and food insecurity could be undermined unless international action is taken to counter the threat posed by antibiotic resistance, the chief of the United Nations Food...
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9 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank today approved a $400m loan to help the Philippines expand its successful health and education conditional cash transfer programme.
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9 Feb 16
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has stressed that more inclusive governance is vital not only to reducing poverty and promoting prosperity, but also tackling problems like violent extremism and...
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3 Feb 16
A £4.5m UK aid package will fund the “last push” in the eradication of Guinea worm, the country’s Department for International Development has declared.
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2 Feb 16
The World Health Organisation has today declared an international health emergency in response to the clusters of brain-damaged babies suspected to be linked to the spread of Zika virus.
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1 Feb 16
USAID has announced almost $100m in additional food assistance for drought-stricken communities in Ethiopia, who are still suffering from the impact of a powerful El Niño.
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1 Feb 16
The $5.8bn in funds pledged by global leaders for Ebola recovery have been slow to materialise and are almost impossible to track, Oxfam has warned.
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28 Jan 16
The World Health Organisation has said it is extremely alarmed by the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
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26 Jan 16
The United Nations has warned that the health consequences of El Niño are likely to continue throughout 2016 and urged governments to invest now in preparedness to prevent unnecessary deaths,...