Tuberculosis infections declining, but not fast enough among poor, marginalised: UN health agency
A staggering 1.5 million people died from tuberculosis (TB) last [...]
Wednesday’s Daily Brief: Soaring obesity rates, sustainable development funding alliance, new UN office to support Haiti
A recap of Wednesday’s main stories: Poor global diets triggering [...]
Obesity rates soar due to dramatic global diet shift, says UN food agency
Eating food high in starch, sugar, fats and salt; combined [...]
‘Alarmingly high’ number of children malnourished worldwide: UNICEF report
Across the globe, at least one-in-three children under-five are malnourished [...]
Stop the waste: UN food agencies call for action to reduce global hunger
With one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or [...]
Global community pledges $14 billion to step up fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
Donors have pledged just over $14 billion for the next [...]
Ebola on the run in DR Congo, ‘now we have to kill the virus’: UN health agency
Efforts to eradicate the deadly Ebola epidemic in eastern Democratic [...]
World Mental Health Day sheds light on worrying rates of youth suicide
Worldwide, 800,000 people die by suicide each year - one every [...]
Support ‘winds of change’ in DR Congo to consolidate positive developments, urges UN mission chief
Recent positive trends could help transform the Democratic Republic of [...]
Alarming number of women mistreated during childbirth, new UN health agency figures show
More than a third of women surveyed across four lower-income countries, reported being mistreated during [...]
Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Eye health, UN’s financial crisis, progress in Mali and South Sudan, human rights in Australia
Tuesday’s top stories: Global need for eye care is set [...]
One billion people have preventable eye conditions, increasingly linked to lifestyle choices: UN health agency
A staggering 2.2 billion people already suffer from eye conditions [...]
Friday’s Daily Brief: Ebola survivors top 1,000 in DR Congo, star of ‘Roma’ film named Goodwill Ambassador, clean air treaty enters into force
A recap of Friday's stories: Milestone of 1,000 Ebola survivors [...]
Ground-breaking clean air protocol to guard human health and the planet, enters into force
European and North American countries will take a major stride [...]
FIFA and UN kick off healthy living campaign, to harness global game’s ‘huge potential’
At a ceremony held in Geneva on Friday, the World [...]
UN highlights milestone of 1,000 Ebola survivors in DR Congo amid complex environment of conflict and mistrust
One thousand people have survived the Ebola outbreak in the [...]
FAO plants new efforts to protect bananas under disease threat
In a renewed effort to help protect banana crops in [...]
WHO chief underscores need to address climate change following visit to Bahamas
The top UN health official has called for the world [...]
WHO and UNICEF in campaign to protect 1.6 million in Sudan from cholera
UN agencies are working with the authorities in Sudan to [...]
Strict alcohol laws which cut intake more than 40 per cent in Russia, linked to historically high life expectancy
Strict laws put in place by the Russian authorities since [...]