Category: International
The World Health Organization on Thursday urged countries to invest billions of dollars to tackle 17 neglected tropical diseases — including dengue fever, leprosy and sleeping sickness — which kill 500,000 people globally each year. ...
Grief among the more than 16,000 children orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa runs deep, but most of them have been taken in by families thanks to the bonds of kinship that has ...
The United Nations main development programme spotlighted today its string of successes in 36 countries and territories in the Asia and Pacific region in the areas of poverty reduction, conservation of natural resources, democratic governance, ...
Urgent government action is needed to meet global targets to reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and prevent the annual toll of 16 million people dying prematurely – before the age of 70 – ...
A senior United Nations refugee official today stressed the need for urgent action by European nations to protect migrants at sea following recent incidents involving hundreds of people stranded in the Mediterranean while attempting to ...
More than 20,000 people have been infected by Ebola in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since the outbreak of the virus began, the World Health Organisation has said. The WHO also said in a statement ...
According to UNODC latest report, global drug use prevalence has been stabilized, but drug-related deaths are still challenging a wide population of people around the world. One of the current means of drug trafficking is ...
Violence which was carried out by uncontrolled individuals and small groups led to death of approximately 50 people in the Central African Republic. The unrest has lasted more than a year in the region, leading ...
Since the outbreak of cholera epidemic in Haiti, many international efforts have been directed toward elimination of the disease and reduction the toll of this fatal epidemic. According to the latest official figures, the lowest ...
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