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The WHO study, released on Friday ahead of World Blood Donor Day on June 14, offers the most comprehensive assessment of blood systems worldwide to date, drawing on data from 168 countries representing 97 percent of the global population. The report highlights significant advances in blood donation and safety. More than 85 percent of blood […]

Written by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the message emphasized a shared global responsibility to protect humanity from repeating such devastation seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed up to 20 million lives and wiped out $13 trillion in global economic output. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic,

“Every day cases are being identified in new health zones. And that really reflects the scale of this outbreak, a scale much larger than what is being detected, and the high mobility of the population in this part of the DRC,” said Dr. Olivier le Polain, head of epidemiology and analysis at the World Health

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday expressed alarm at the rioting and destruction in Northern Ireland following the attack, which went viral on social media – and the release of police bodycam footage linked to the murder of a student in Southampton by a British-born Sikh. He offered sympathy to the

The rapid outbreak, which has also spread to neighboring Uganda, is caused by the rare and deadly Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus. WHO’s Director of Health Alert and Response Operations, Dr. Abdirahman Mahamud, told journalists in Geneva that per June 8 in DRC has been 550 confirmed cases and 101 deaths. “The good news

Damien Mama, interim humanitarian coordinator in the DRC, arrived Sunday in the provincial capital, Bunia, where he will assess response efforts and strengthen coordination in support of the government-led campaign to end the latest deadly epidemic. Increasing caseload The rapid outbreak – which has also spread to neighboring Uganda – is caused by the rare

The family carried out the funeral themselves – potentially exposing dozens more people to the virus. The incident is a stark illustration of one of the biggest obstacles to efforts to contain the latest deadly epidemic, which has infected 381 people and claimed 64 lives in the DRC per year. June 3. For Marie Roseline

In eastern DRC, UN agencies are supporting national health authorities through Ebola treatment centres, case management, surveillance efforts and the provision of essential medicines and medical supplies. According to Congolese authorities, more than 90 percent of reported cases are concentrated in Ituri province, although infections have also been detected in North and South Kivu. The

The new insight, released on Wednesday ahead of next week’s World Food Safety Day, shows that children under five are particularly vulnerable. Although they stand for only nine percent of the global population, they suffer from nearly a third of all foodborne illnessesmany of them serious diarrheal diseases that can prove fatal, according to the

About five million people – or 47 percent of the population – are currently experiencing crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity (stage 3 and above). Meanwhile, another 1.4 million people are trapped in the “emergency” and the number is expected to grow as the year progresses. “Families are being pushed beyond their coping