Although South Sudan had recently been declared free from the wild poliovirus, the UN health agency said on Friday that 15 children under th...
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Friday, November 13, 2020
Measles killed an estimated 207,500 people last year after a decade-long failure to reach optimal vaccination coverage, resulting in the hig...
A bold new blueprint to tackle all neglected tropical diseases has been agreed at the UN health agency’s World Health Assembly, which will i...
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Pneumonia is not a new emergency, it takes the lives of some 800,000 children each year, but this year’s COVID-19 pandemic makes it even mor...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
The UN is calling for authoritative scientific information and research to be made freely available, to accelerate research into an effectiv...
Monday, November 9, 2020
The only way to fight the COVID-19 crisis is to make affordable vaccines available to everyone, independent UN human rights experts said on ...
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Member States on Monday that efforts to tackle climate chan...
