Fight to end AIDS: ‘This is not just a funding gap – it’s a ticking time bomb’
Devastating funding cuts from international donors are hitting countries hardest [...]
Overlooked and underestimated: Sand and dust storms wreak havoc across borders
There are three Great Pyramids at Giza in Egypt - [...]
She fought for the girl the world left behind: Natalia Kanem’s UN legacy
When Natalia Kanem reflects on her eight-year tenure at the [...]
In South Asia, anaemia threatens women’s health and economic futures
Anaemia remains one of South Asia’s quietest but most pervasive [...]
UN warns of deepening health crisis in Gaza amid mass casualty incidents
As scores of people – including medical staff and their [...]
UN summit confronts AI’s dawn of wonders and warnings
The UN’s flagship platform on artificial intelligence opened in Geneva [...]
Every hour, 100 people die of loneliness-related causes, UN health agency reports
One in six people are affected by loneliness, with significant [...]
DR Congo: New initiative to eliminate HIV in children ‘a beacon of hope’
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has launched a [...]
Energy access has improved, but more funding is needed to address disparities: WHO
Although nearly 92 per cent of the global population now [...]
‘Still reeling’: Myanmar quakes worsen humanitarian crisis in fractured country
Nearly three months after Myanmar’s strongest earthquake in a century, [...]
Tobacco control efforts protect three-quarters of the world’s population, WHO report finds
Tobacco use still claims over seven million lives a year, [...]
‘One Earth, One Health’: Yoga Day provides respite in a tumultuous world
In an age marked by conflicts, disease, dysfunction and mental [...]
WHO warns of a health financing emergency
The world is facing a health financing emergency, according to [...]
Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges
Almost 4.5 million maternal, stillborn and newborn deaths were recorded [...]
Without urgent funding, global hunger hotspots are set to grow, UN warns
Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people [...]
World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 [...]
World News in Brief: ‘Indifference and impunity’ in Sudan, ICC judges speak out against sanctions, respiratory diseases overlooked in Europe
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of [...]
Famine stalks two counties in South Sudan as fragile peace is threatened
Two counties in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan [...]
Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA
The global fertility slump isn’t down to young people turning [...]
AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress
AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, [...]