Health

The report estimates 8.2 percent of the global population (673 million individuals) experienced hunger by 2024down from 8.5 percent in 2023 and 8.7 percent in 2022. Latin America and Asia saw improvements in which the incidence of malnutrition fell by 1.2 percent in Asia and 1 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2022 […]

Mathare, one of the country’s largest slums, houses up to 500,000 people on five square kilometers who cling them together and store the human waste they produce in uncovered rivulets. But when he told the visit later to the UN news, this was not the picture that was most firm with him. Without formal sewer

The report released later this month reveals how the world between 2020 and 2024 experienced a dramatic increase in food prices driven by a combination of Covid-19-inflation, the war in Ukraine limits food and raw material movements and increased climate. “The episodes described in this publication bring what we call a perfect storm,” said Mr.

Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar, professor of infectious diseases at University College London, issued this warning at a recent meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York. It’s not a question of if, but when and Dr. Abubakar believes that the answer is before than anyone partly desires because the global health system

However, persistent nutrition holes and the installation of environmental pressures are revealing a complex road ahead, according to a new study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – an influential International Policy Forum. The Agricultural views 2025-2034It was released on Tuesday, projecting an increase

Injicerable Lenacapavir-Len, short-is a very effective, long-acting antiretroviral alternative to daily oral pills and other short-acting possibilities, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “While an HIV vaccine remains evasive, Lenacapavir is the next best thing: a long-acting antiretroviral shown in attempts to prevent almost all HIV infections among those in danger,” said Tedros Adhanom

She returns to a single picture again and again: from a ten-year-old girl, it stands on the edge of youth, her future uncertain and her rights still in serious doubt. “Will she be able to stay in school, go -exam and get their way through the world?” Dr. Kanem wonders. “Or will she be derailed

The study conducted by Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, in collaboration with the Australia Burnet Institute and published in The Authoritative British Medical Journal (BMJ) Global Health, analyzed 210 outbreaks in 49 countries with low income over a 23-year period. It found that rapid vaccine installation during cholera, ebola, measles, meningitis and yellow fever had led

Across the Gaza Strip, which people are desperately searching for food, mass accident events are reported almost daily, UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at his regular briefing in New York. Hospitals that are already under enormous strain are struggling to cope with and lack essential supplies – including fuel and medicine – put even

2025 Global AIDS update released Thursday by Unaids Global Organ’s agency fighting against AIDS and HIV infection admissions that a historic funding crisis is now threatening to loosen decades of severely won gains, unless countries radically consider how they fund and deliver HIV services. But even in the midst of these challenges, many of the