Global Issues
News headlines for “Health Issues”, page 22
Pandemic Agreement: Important Step but Big Decisions Deferred
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jun 11 (IPS) - When the next pandemic strikes, the world should be better prepared. At least, that’s the promise states made at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Assembly on 19 May when they adopted the first global pandemic treaty. This milestone in international health cooperation emerged from three years of difficult negotiations, informed by the harsh lessons learned from COVID-19’s devastating global impacts.
Older Men and Women Living Longer
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Jun 10 (IPS) - Older men and women are now living longer than ever before. Across the globe, individuals who reach old age can expect to have more years of life ahead of them than in previous generations. However, these additional years of life, coupled with the disparities among and within countries, including variations between older men and women, present substantial economic, social, and political challenges for societies.
Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA
- UN News
The global fertility slump isn’t down to young people turning their backs on parenthood – it’s due to social and economic pressures stopping them from having the children they want, says a new UN report.
CIVICUS’ New Leader Speaks on Global Declines in Civic Freedom
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS / NEW YORK, Jun 05 (IPS) - On June 1, CIVICUS Global Alliance, announced the appointment of Mandeep Tiwana as its new Secretary-General. With his tenure underway, Tiwana sat down with an IPS correspondent to discuss CIVICUS’s work in promoting civic freedom and solidarity in an increasingly autonomy-restrictive world.
World News in Brief: Women’s health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
- UN News
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding cuts are isolating rape survivors and pregnant women from essential health services, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA said on Thursday.
Hundreds of Cholera Cases Are Declared Per Day in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 05 (IPS) - A particularly virulent outbreak of cholera was detected in the Khartoum State of Sudan and is a direct result of the Sudanese Civil War, warns the United Nations.
World News in Brief: Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti
- UN News
In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intensifying conflict, intercommunal violence and mass displacement are forcing hundreds of thousands of children out of school.
Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns
- UN News
For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – making it easier, and more appealing, to try.
Funding Shortfalls Threaten Haiti's Future
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 (IPS) - The humanitarian situation in Haiti has deteriorated significantly in the recent weeks as rates of violence, hunger, and displacement soar amid a severe lack of funding. As armed gangs continue to seize more territory in the capital, Port-Au-Prince, as well as in areas in the Artibonite and Centre Department, humanitarian organizations have found themselves unable to keep up with the growing scale of needs.
Unmasking Harm Reduction: Youth Demand Action on Tobacco Industry’s New Tactics
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / BANGKOK, May 28 (IPS) - The World Health Organization (WHO) for this year’s World No Tobacco Day (May 31) has chosen the theme, “Unmasking the Appeal”,?to reveal the tactics employed by the tobacco and nicotine industries to make their harmful products enticing, particularly to young people.
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