Global Issues
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African football legends join forces to give a red card to polio
- UN News
Six African football legends are urging the continent to unite and step up efforts to vaccinate every child against the life-threatening polio virus.
Malaria: Drug resistance and underfunding threaten progress towards eliminating killer disease
- UN News
The authoritative World Health Organization (WHO) World Malaria Report, published on Thursday, shows that resistance to antimalarial drugs now poses one of the most acute risks to control efforts across Africa and beyond.
From Village Vision to Vital Innovation: How One Student is Revolutionizing Healthcare in Malawi
- Inter Press Service
CHAMHANYA GONDWE, Malawi, December 2 (IPS) - In the quiet hills of Chamhanya Gondwe village in Malawi’s Mzimba district, a young boy once watched his community struggle with limited access to healthcare.
Yemen’s Worsening Food Security Crisis: Economic Collapse, Continued Insecurity, and Humanitarian Challenges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, December 1 (IPS) - For the past decade, Yemen has been at the center of a severe and multifaceted humanitarian crisis, marked by widespread violence between various Middle Eastern actors, widespread civilian displacement, economic decline, and the collapse of essential services that serve as lifelines for displaced communities. As the crisis has intensified in recent months, humanitarian agencies face increasing challenges in providing lifesaving care to civilians, who are experiencing record levels of hunger in a country that has become more reliant on remittances as self-sufficiency continues to slip further out of reach.
Vulnerable Populations Will Suffer With UNAIDS Early Closure
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, December 1 (IPS) - “It’s like adding fuel to an already burning fire,” says Aditia Taslim.
HIV and AIDS: Despite funding setbacks, prevention sees progress
- UN News
Pooja Mishra’s health kept worsening until she began treatment for HIV at age 19, two years after her diagnosis. From wondering if she’d ever be able to live a normal life, today she is youth coordinator at a coalition for people with the disease in India.
WHO backs wider use of weight-loss medicines, calling obesity a chronic disease
- UN News
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has issued its first guideline on the use of a new class of weight-loss medicines, marking a significant shift in global health policy as obesity rates continue to rise.
‘Every step a struggle:’ Nigerian woman with disabilities leads push for dignity and inclusion
- UN News
A woman living with disabilities in a camp for displaced people in Nigeria is demonstrating why it is essential that people like her are included in society and how dignity can be protected even in the harshest places.
World News in Brief: Children hit by HIV funding gaps, risks to Pakistan’s courts, minority exclusion
- UN News
Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment and care, as shrinking funding threatens to reverse decades of progress, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday, ahead of World AIDS Day.
Global measles cases surge as 30 million children miss vaccines, UN health agency warns
- UN News
Measles deaths have dropped by 88 per cent since 2000 – yet an estimated 95,000 people, mostly children, still died from the virus last year, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday.
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