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Pakistan launches the biggest ever measles campaign in the world
Today Dr Faisal Sultan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health, launched a nationwide campaign to vaccinate more than…
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SCORE GLOBAL REPORT HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR HIGH QUALITY HEALTH DATA
Two-thirds of low-income countries have established a standardized system to report causes of deaths. However, the SCORE Report highlights the…
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COVID-19 illustrates ‘woefully under prepared’ world – UN health chief
Although the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank set up the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) two years ago…
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COVID-19 impact on treatment for chronic illness revealed
The COVID-19 health crisis has caused massive disruption worldwide in diagnosing and treating people with deadly but preventable diseases, including…
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WHO says test, despite CDC’s recent flip flop
The World Health Organization (WHO) says countries should actively test people to find coronavirus cases, even if they have mild…
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2 in 5 schools around the world lacked basic handwashing facilities prior to COVID-19 pandemic — UNICEF, WHO
As schools worldwide struggle with reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43 per…
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DR Congo: WHO rings alarm as Ebola cases
The Ebola virus has so far affected some 92 people in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Equateur province, the World…
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Across the World, Humanitarian Workers Grapple With Effects of Coronavirus
As a child in Somalia, Mohamed Mohamud proudly tended to several dozen small tomato plants. He had seen his grandmother…
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WHO chief warns against “vaccine nationalism”
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general Tuesday issued another warning against “vaccine nationalism,” — countries putting their own interests ahead…
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