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5 May 20
With public services facing increasing demand and tightening budgets, preventative interventions can often be an easy tap to turn off in times of pressure. However, what are the risks of not...
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15 Oct 19
Obesity in rich countries reduces gross domestic product by 3.3%, the OECD has found, warning that there is “no more excuse for inaction”.
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25 Jun 19
Mountain sherpas in Nepal are growing exasperated at the amount of rubbish being dumped by visiting climbers on the world’s highest peak.
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15 Apr 19
Campaigners have welcomed a Supreme Court ruling which means that parent companies can be held legally responsible in the UK for offences committed by their subsidiaries.
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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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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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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 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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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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13 Apr 16
Every $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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22 Mar 16
Local public services in Indonesia stand to be improved after a “bottom up” model to spot problems and enact solutions was successfully tested.
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18 Mar 16
Two 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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15 Mar 16
Investments to reduce environmental risks in homes and workplaces are urgently needed to reduce the 12.6 million deaths attributable to unhealthy environments each year, the World Health Organisation...
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19 Feb 16
The 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 16
The 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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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.
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23 Jul 15
Citizens in developed nations believe the world is not ready for another global epidemic like last year’s Ebola outbreak and have called for investment to reduce the threat posed by infectious...
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10 Mar 15
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa underlined the importance of preparedness – those countries with plans and systems in place contained the disease relatively successfully. Judith Ugwumadu...