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11 Oct 17
The annual global medical bill for treating obesity could reach $1.2trn by 2025, experts have warned.
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25 Sep 17
The world is running out of antibiotics and research funding is needed to combat the threat of antibiotic resistant diseases, such as tuberculosis, a new report by the World Health Organisation has...
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13 Sep 17
The International Committee of the Red Cross has set up the world’s first humanitarian impact bond, worth more than 26m Swiss francs (£20m), for rehabilitation centres in Africa.
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22 Aug 17
China’s proposed ’belt and road’ network of surface and sea links to Europe will need measures in place to prevent the spread of epidemics, World Health Organisation director-...
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28 Jul 17
Campaigners have called on members of the US House of Representatives to ensure better access to federal healthcare programmes for residents of Puerto Rico.
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24 Jul 17
The proportion of the world’s population covered by anti-tobacco smoking measures has quadrupled in the past decade, the World Health Organisation has said.
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21 Jul 17
Argentina to enhance its early years education provision by using a $200m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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18 Jul 17
Progress on many of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) is too slow to meet the 2030 implementation target, a report for UN secretary general António Guterres has warned.
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9 Jul 17
The world must respond to child marriage and adolescent pregnancy with the same urgency it showed in the fight against HIV, the Overseas Development Institute has warned.
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7 Jun 17
More investment in infrastructure and good governance will be key to Cambodia’s continuing economic success, according to the International Monetary Fund’s deputy managing director.
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5 Jun 17
Fiscal policy has a critical role in tackling two of the major challenges facing Asia and the Pacific in the coming decades – ageing and inclusivity – the International Monetary Fund’s deputy...
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25 May 17
The majority of countries are still chronically underprepared for disease pandemics, with a working group on the issue dubbing this short-sighted, bad economics.
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24 May 17
Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is to become director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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17 May 17
The US has significantly expanded its policy of refusing aid to organisations that provide abortion or offer advice and information on it. It will now affect $8.8bn worth of funding rather than $600m...
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26 Apr 17
The Mexican economy alone could lose almost $30bn as a result of the “double burden” of obesity and undernutrition, with billions more at risk in other nations across the region.
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10 Apr 17
The Zika epidemic could cost Latin America and the Caribbean $18bn by 2018, an analysis by the United Nations Development Programme has found.
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4 Apr 17
The US has pulled its funding for a United Nations body focused on family planning and reproductive health, it emerged today.
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23 Mar 17
A cheap, heat-resistant and effective vaccine is being hailed as a “game-changer” that could save the lives of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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24 Feb 17
Mexico’s sugar tax has reduced consumption of sugary drinks for the second year in a row, knocking industry claims that the tax would lose its effect after the first year.
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16 Feb 17
Falling health funding in Timor-Leste must be met with better planning and policies to manage rising costs, the World Bank has said.
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9 Feb 17
The United Nations has launched a $2.1bn appeal for Yemen in 2017, where years of war have destroyed schools, hospitals and entire cities and left the nation on the brink of famine.
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6 Feb 17
African nations have established a continent-wide public health organisation to help respond to emergencies such as Ebola.
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24 Jan 17
US president Donald Trump has blocked US aid to foreign organisations that promote or perform abortions overseas, continuing a rapid-fire first week in office that has also seen him pull America out...
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16 Jan 17
Power needs to be shifted out of the hands of drug manufacturers in order to ease pressure on public health spending caused by a proliferation of high-cost medicines, the OECD has said.
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11 Jan 17
Failing to crack down on the tobacco industry will cost the world more than $1tn annually, the World Health Organisation has said, countering industry claims that more controls will hurt nations’...