World Health organisation
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24 May 16The World Bank has launched the world’s first ever insurance and pandemic bonds to help protect against deadly infectious disease.
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13 Apr 16Every $1 spent on investing in scaling up treatment for depression and anxiety disorders leads to a return of $4 in better health and working ability, according to a study published in The Lancet...
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6 Apr 16Health needs from humanitarian emergencies have hit an “all-time high” according to the World Health Organisation, which is appealing for $2.2bn for its work in 2016.
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30 Mar 16The World Health Organisation has announced that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer constitutes an international public health emergency.
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18 Mar 16Two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Guinea, but Sierra Leone has again been given the all clear after a flare up of the disease.
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11 Mar 16Many 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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4 Mar 16The 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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19 Feb 16The 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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18 Feb 16The 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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28 Jan 16The 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 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,...
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25 Jan 16The 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 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.
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15 Jan 16A 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 16All 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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4 Jan 16Guinea was declared Ebola free last week after no new cases were reported for 42 days.
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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...
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7 Dec 15The 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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23 Nov 15Academics have criticised the international response to last year’s Ebola epidemic and called for governance reforms and better funding of the World Health Organisation.