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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’...
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10 Jan 17
Around a fifth of all health spending is probably ineffective or wasteful, an OECD deputy director has estimated at the launch of a report looking at inefficiencies in the world’s health systems.
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5 Jan 17
Substantial waste and poor outcomes in the world’s health systems could be alleviated by correcting mismatches in the way available resources are allocated, researchers have found.
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21 Dec 16
Cancer, strokes and heart and lung diseases will soon be a bigger threat to people in Africa than infectious outbreaks like Ebola or Zika, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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14 Dec 16
One third of health facilities in Nigeria’s conflict-hit Borno State have been completely destroyed, while nearly another third are partially damaged, it has been announced.
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13 Dec 16
‘Flat lining’ funding levels are threatening global progress in ending the malaria epidemic and preventing deaths from the disease, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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13 Dec 16
The World Health Organisation has launched a data portal to track progress towards universal health coverage around the world.
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12 Dec 16
Governments should focus spending on mental health and wellbeing, researchers have argued, after a study found these are more closely linked to happiness than financial problems or poverty.
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12 Dec 16
Brazil’s planned 20-year government spending freeze will breach citizens’ human rights, a United Nations expert has concluded.
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9 Dec 16
European Union protections against pandemics that could spread quickly throughout the bloc suffer from “significant weaknesses”, the European Court of Auditors has found.
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6 Dec 16
The Sustainable Development Goals have ambitions to leave no one behind. How do we square that with the need to achieve value for money?
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18 Nov 16
Strengthening the world’s health systems will require engaging a diverse array of stakeholders at different levels both within and outside the health system in new forms of participatory leadership,...
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17 Nov 16
South Africa has a grand vision for healthcare: free and equitable access for all citizens. However, difficult questions over funding remain unresolved
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11 Nov 16
The instability triggered by the Arab Spring has cost countries in the region $613.8bn since 2011 and a fiscal shortfall $217.9bn greater than pre-crisis projections, the United Nations has found.
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24 Oct 16
The African Development Bank has approved a $20m equity investment in the Rx Healthcare Fund (RxHF), which aims to meet growing demands for specialised but affordable healthcare services across...
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12 Oct 16
Governments everywhere should tax sugary drinks in order to reduce the 11 million deaths every year linked to unhealthy diets, the World Health Organisation has said.
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26 Sep 16
Six candidates have been put forward to take the helm of the World Health Organisation when its current director-general’s term expires next year.
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21 Sep 16
A city-driven initiative to close the global mental health gap was launched in New York yesterday, with hopes of capitalising on local networks to support the 450 million people affected worldwide.
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19 Sep 16
Governments around the world contributed to the largest single pledge to a global health project on Saturday, after the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria received nearly $13bn in...
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13 Sep 16
A report by two senior health academics has called on the World Health Organisation to embrace wide-ranging reform, including outsourcing some its functions, in response to mistakes made in its...
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30 Aug 16
The World Bank and the Global Fund will invest $24bn in Africa over the next three to five years in order to accelerate universal health coverage across the continent.
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18 Aug 16
Melbourne has been rated the world’s most liveable city for the sixth year running by the Economist’s Global Liveability Ranking 2016.
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17 Aug 16
One of the largest emergency vaccination campaigns ever attempted in Africa gets underway this week in a last-ditch effort to halt an outbreak of yellow fever that it’s feared could spread across the...
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12 Aug 16
Two children have been left paralysed by polio in Nigeria’s Borno state, less than a month after the anniversary that marked two years without a case of the disease in the whole country.
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11 Aug 16
Egypt is set to benefit from a $12bn International Monetary Fund loan over the next three years after agreeing on a programme to support economic reforms, it was announced today.
11 Jan 17Failing 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’...
10 Jan 17Around a fifth of all health spending is probably ineffective or wasteful, an OECD deputy director has estimated at the launch of a report looking at inefficiencies in the world’s health systems.
14 Dec 16One third of health facilities in Nigeria’s conflict-hit Borno State have been completely destroyed, while nearly another third are partially damaged, it has been announced.
13 Dec 16‘Flat lining’ funding levels are threatening global progress in ending the malaria epidemic and preventing deaths from the disease, the World Health Organisation has warned.
13 Dec 16The World Health Organisation has launched a data portal to track progress towards universal health coverage around the world.
12 Dec 16Governments should focus spending on mental health and wellbeing, researchers have argued, after a study found these are more closely linked to happiness than financial problems or poverty.
12 Dec 16Brazil’s planned 20-year government spending freeze will breach citizens’ human rights, a United Nations expert has concluded.
9 Dec 16European Union protections against pandemics that could spread quickly throughout the bloc suffer from “significant weaknesses”, the European Court of Auditors has found.
6 Dec 16The Sustainable Development Goals have ambitions to leave no one behind. How do we square that with the need to achieve value for money?
18 Nov 16Strengthening the world’s health systems will require engaging a diverse array of stakeholders at different levels both within and outside the health system in new forms of participatory leadership,...
11 Nov 16The instability triggered by the Arab Spring has cost countries in the region $613.8bn since 2011 and a fiscal shortfall $217.9bn greater than pre-crisis projections, the United Nations has found.
24 Oct 16The African Development Bank has approved a $20m equity investment in the Rx Healthcare Fund (RxHF), which aims to meet growing demands for specialised but affordable healthcare services across...
12 Oct 16Governments everywhere should tax sugary drinks in order to reduce the 11 million deaths every year linked to unhealthy diets, the World Health Organisation has said.
26 Sep 16Six candidates have been put forward to take the helm of the World Health Organisation when its current director-general’s term expires next year.
19 Sep 16Governments around the world contributed to the largest single pledge to a global health project on Saturday, after the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria received nearly $13bn in...
13 Sep 16A report by two senior health academics has called on the World Health Organisation to embrace wide-ranging reform, including outsourcing some its functions, in response to mistakes made in its...
30 Aug 16The World Bank and the Global Fund will invest $24bn in Africa over the next three to five years in order to accelerate universal health coverage across the continent.
18 Aug 16Melbourne has been rated the world’s most liveable city for the sixth year running by the Economist’s Global Liveability Ranking 2016.
11 Aug 16Egypt is set to benefit from a $12bn International Monetary Fund loan over the next three years after agreeing on a programme to support economic reforms, it was announced today.
