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Today, the World Health Organization and partners launched the first ever global strategy to defeat meningitis - a debilitating disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year.

Report highlights global shortfalls to end HIV infections among children and young women In the final report from the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free initiative, UNAIDS and partners warn that progress towards ending AIDS among children, adolescents and young women has stalled and none of the targets for 2020 were met. The report shows that the total number of children on treatment declined for the first time, despite the fact that nearly 800 000 children living with HIV are not currently on tr...

In the final report from the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free initiative, UNAIDS and partners* warn that progress towards ending AIDS among children, adolescents and young women has stalled and none of the targets for 2020 were met. The report shows that the total number of children on treatment declined for the first time, despite the fact that nearly 800 000 children living with HIV are not currently on treatment. It also shows that opportunities to identify infants and young children living...

Gobierno Federal reconoce a Quintana Roo por programas de salud El Gobierno de Quintana Roo fue reconocido por haber mejorado y ampliado los servicios de salud. programas de Salud implementados en Quintana Roo obtuvieron el primer lugar a nivel nacional, por haber mejorado y ampliado los servicios en este sector a la ciudadanía. De acuerdo con la Secretaría Estatal de Salud los programas “Promoción a la salud y Determinantes Sociales” y “Envejecimiento Saludable” lograron el primer...

South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Tuesday 6 July 2021 Adrian Ephraim © Provided by The South African We’ve got the latest news in South Africa, from all the stories making headlines in the country on Tuesday 6 July 2021. The country remains on a knife-edge for more reasons than one. As the third wave continues to pound Gauteng, other provinces in South Africa are beginning to brace for their third wave as infections and fatalities rise every day. The latest ...

UNRWA Health Department Annual Report 2020 Format Standing for the health of Palestine refugees, health care is a human right, not a privilege The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has released its Health Annual Report for 2020, which provides essential data and information regarding the health situation of Palestine refugees in the Agencys five fields of operations -- Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza, and Syria,...

RESPONSIBILITIES You will be in charge of ensuring the direct implementation of the Nutrition & Health Programmes, through 2 mobile clinics, as part of the emergency response to the populations affected by the crisis in the south-western region of Cameroon. Furthermore, you will also be supporting the COVID 19 Response in that area of intervention. More specifically, your responsabilities will be to: Ensure the application of ACF standards in the implementation and monitoring of the mobile clin...

The global roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines continues. Image: REUTERS/Jorge Silva - RC2R4N9GSO3V 28 Apr 2021 The World Economic Forum held an Issue Briefing to mark World Immunization Week. Experts from around the globe discussed how can we ensure vaccine equity, build trust in COVID-19 vaccines and strengthen health systems. Here are some of the key quotes from the panellists. But the vast majority of these have been in developed countries, meaning the pandemic con...