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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,...
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25 Jan 16
The World Health Organisation has announced that 21 countries in the Americas and about ten in Africa, Asia and the Pacific have reported cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus infection and warned...
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20 Jan 16
The UK Department for International Development’s overreliance on the international health system meant it failed to heed early warnings about the scale of the Ebola outbreak, British MPs concluded.
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18 Jan 16
The Asian Development Bank is extending a loan to an international leasing company to up to $75m to help the firm expand badly needed funding for healthcare equipment and facilities in China.
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15 Jan 16
A case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, less than a day after the three countries worst hit by the outbreak in West Africa were declared to be free of the virus simultaneously.
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14 Jan 16
All three of the west African countries hardest hit by Ebola are currently free of the virus for the first time since the start of the epidemic two years ago, after the most recent outbreak of the...
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12 Jan 16
Deliveries of humanitarian aid have finally reached the besieged towns in Syria where people have reportedly been starving to death after being cut off by pro-government or opposition forces.
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8 Jan 16
American international development agency USAID has announced partnerships with two US companies to fight multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
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7 Jan 16
The Mexican healthcare system faces some “daunting challenges”, doesn’t represent value for money and needs system-wide reform, the OECD has said.
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4 Jan 16
Guinea was declared Ebola free last week after no new cases were reported for 42 days.
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10 Dec 15
More countries are getting closer to eliminating malaria and saving millions of dollars in healthcare costs, the World Health Organisation has said. However, funding will have to increase almost...
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9 Dec 15
China could lose 90 million workers by 2040 as its population ages, the World Bank has warned. Wealthier economies across East Asia are set to see their working-age populations shrink by as much as...
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7 Dec 15
The World Health Organisation is looking to step up its health support in Ethiopia in response to health risks following droughts caused by this year’s El Niño weather phenomenon.
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4 Dec 15
More people are in need of humanitarian assistance than at any time since the Second World War, with women and girls disproportionately vulnerable, according to the United Nations Population Fund (...
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1 Dec 15
The World Health Organisation and anti-poverty campaigners are calling on the international community to redouble its efforts if it wants to win the fight against AIDS.
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1 Dec 15
This World AIDS Day offers a unique opportunity to African governments. Just a 1% increase to health budgets could bring enormous benefits.
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23 Nov 15
UK chancellor George Osborne and Microsoft founder Bill Gates have set up a £1bn fund to tackle malaria and other infectious diseases.
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23 Nov 15
Academics have criticised the international response to last year’s Ebola epidemic and called for governance reforms and better funding of the World Health Organisation.
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20 Nov 15
The ongoing war in Yemen has brought its education and health systems to the brink of collapse, a senior United Nations official has warned.
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17 Nov 15
The International Monetary Fund has approved a $46.14m disbursement to Sierra Leone as it recovers from the Ebola outbreak.
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25 Sep 15
Advanced economies need to take urgent action to reform their health systems in order to address “unsustainable” costs, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said.
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25 Sep 15
“Massive and transformational” universal health coverage programmes are reducing the number of people impoverished by paying for the health care, a World Bank report has found.
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18 Sep 15
The World Health Organisation is calling on leaders and international donors to triple funding for malaria to $8.7bn by 2030 in order to save the 3 billion people still at risk.
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18 Aug 15
The United Nations Development Programme has started a year-long project to reintegrate volunteers who have been helping to fight the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone back into the country’s...
28 Jan 16The World Health Organisation has said it is extremely alarmed by the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
26 Jan 16The 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,...
20 Jan 16The UK Department for International Development’s overreliance on the international health system meant it failed to heed early warnings about the scale of the Ebola outbreak, British MPs concluded.
18 Jan 16The Asian Development Bank is extending a loan to an international leasing company to up to $75m to help the firm expand badly needed funding for healthcare equipment and facilities in China.
12 Jan 16Deliveries of humanitarian aid have finally reached the besieged towns in Syria where people have reportedly been starving to death after being cut off by pro-government or opposition forces.
8 Jan 16American international development agency USAID has announced partnerships with two US companies to fight multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
7 Jan 16The Mexican healthcare system faces some “daunting challenges”, doesn’t represent value for money and needs system-wide reform, the OECD has said.
10 Dec 15More countries are getting closer to eliminating malaria and saving millions of dollars in healthcare costs, the World Health Organisation has said. However, funding will have to increase almost...
9 Dec 15China could lose 90 million workers by 2040 as its population ages, the World Bank has warned. Wealthier economies across East Asia are set to see their working-age populations shrink by as much as...
4 Dec 15More people are in need of humanitarian assistance than at any time since the Second World War, with women and girls disproportionately vulnerable, according to the United Nations Population Fund (...
1 Dec 15The World Health Organisation and anti-poverty campaigners are calling on the international community to redouble its efforts if it wants to win the fight against AIDS.
1 Dec 15This World AIDS Day offers a unique opportunity to African governments. Just a 1% increase to health budgets could bring enormous benefits.
20 Nov 15The ongoing war in Yemen has brought its education and health systems to the brink of collapse, a senior United Nations official has warned.
25 Sep 15Advanced economies need to take urgent action to reform their health systems in order to address “unsustainable” costs, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said.
25 Sep 15“Massive and transformational” universal health coverage programmes are reducing the number of people impoverished by paying for the health care, a World Bank report has found.
