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  • World Mental Health Day: an opportunity to kick-start a massive scale-up in investment in mental health

    Joint release by the World Health Organization, United for Global Mental Health and the World Federation for Mental Health

    Mental health is one of the most neglected areas of public health. Close to 1 billion people are living with a mental disorder, 3 million people die every year from the harmful use of alcohol and one person dies every 40 seconds by suicide. And now, billions of people around the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is having a furth

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    Regions: Argentina, Peru , United Kingdom , United States

    Topics: Combating Drugs and Crime, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

  • 172 countries and multiple candidate vaccines engaged in COVID-19 vaccine Global Access Facility

    • Nine CEPI-supported candidate vaccines are part of the COVAX initiative, with a further nine candidates under evaluation, and procurement conversations on-going with additional producers not currently receiving research and development (R&D) funding through COVAX – giving COVAX the largest and most diverse COVID-19 vaccine portfolio in the world
    • 80 potentially self-financing countries have submitted non-binding expressions of interest to the Gavi-coor

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      Regions: Afghanistan, Argentina, Canada , Chile, China, France , Ireland , Norway , Tonga , United Kingdom , United States , West Bank , Zambia

      Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

    • INFOSAN Quarterly Summary, 2020 #2

      During the second quarter of 2020, the INFOSAN Secretariat has been involved in 29 food safety incidents with 59 WHO Member States and two territories of WHO Member States. There were 13 biological hazard incidents (Salmonella [5], Listeria monocytogenes [3], Clostridium botulinum [2], Vibrio cholerae [1], and two involving an unspecified biological hazard), six with a chemical hazard (methanol [3], histamine [2] and patulin [1]), five involving an undeclared allergen (cashew and pistachio [1], sesame [1],

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      Regions: Australia , Cambodia , Canada , China, Dominican Republic , France , Hong Kong , Mexico , Singapore , United States

      Topics: Combating Drugs and Crime, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health

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