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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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16 Apr 17
The UK has today announced £205m in aid to protect over 200 million people from treatable tropical diseases that receive little international attention.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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20 Jul 16
Four cities with high HIV/AIDS burdens have started publishing data on diagnosis, treatment and suppression of the virus as part of a global cities initiative to end the epidemic.
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18 Jul 16
Fears of a resurgence in the HIV/AIDS virus are growing as the reduction in the number of new infections has stalled and funding has fallen for the first time in five years.
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25 May 16
The International Rescue Committee has called for governments across the world to take action to introduce electronic cash transfers in the humanitarian aid system that could transform responses in...
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24 May 16
The World Bank has launched the world’s first ever insurance and pandemic bonds to help protect against deadly infectious disease.
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18 May 16
Digital payments to emergency workers saved time and more than $10m in costs during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, a United Nations-backed initiative has found.
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6 May 16
The lingering impact of the Ebola epidemic and the commodity price slump are weighing heavily on the economies of Guinea and Liberia, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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6 Apr 16
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has called on world leaders to focus on boosting developing countries’ economies to “pull the roots” of extremism and prevent future refugee crises.
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30 Mar 16
The World Health Organisation has announced that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer constitutes an international public health emergency.
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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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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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7 Mar 16
Investment focused on tackling gender inequality can form an essential part of the fight to end extreme poverty, according to the ONE campaign.
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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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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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28 Jan 16
The World Health Organisation has said it is extremely alarmed by the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.