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Two years into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ambitious effort to eliminate industrially produced trans fats from the global food supply, the Organization reports that 58 countries so far have introduced laws that will protect 3.2 billion people from the harmful substance by the end of 2021. But more than 100 countries still need to take actions to remove these harmful substances from their food supplies.
Consumption of industrially produced trans fats are estimated to cause arou
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Regions: Canada , Iran , Nigeria , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States
Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health
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With the number of under-five deaths at an all-time recorded low of 5.2 million in 2019, disruptions in child and maternal health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at stake
The number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record in 2019 – down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990,
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
- 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
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Today, the Africa Regional Certification Commission certified the WHO African Region as wild polio-free after four years without a case. With this historic milestone, five of the six WHO regions – representing over 90% of the world’s population
– are now free of the wild poliovirus, moving the world closer to achieving global polio eradication.
Only two countries worldwide continue to see wild poliovirus transmission: Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Global Polio Eradicat
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Regions: Afghanistan, Pakistan
Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation
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Meaningful youth engagement to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights
Every day, young people are enriching institutions and processes at the local, national, and global levels.
This year, the theme of International Youth Day is "Youth Engagement for Global Action
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Regions: Turkey , United Kingdom
Topics: Global Women's Issues
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WHO and UNICEF call for immediate efforts to vaccinate all children as new data shows that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine coverage stalled at 85 per cent for nearly a decade, with 14 million unvaccinated infants yearly
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Regions: Ethiopia , Haiti , Nepal
Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health
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Rome – More people are going hungry, an annual study by the United Nations has found. Tens of millions have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years, and countries around the world continue to struggle with multiple forms of malnutrition.
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Regions: Afghanistan, Angola , Chad , China, Ghana , Indonesia , Iran , Kenya , Malaysia , Mozambique , Pakistan , Somalia , United Kingdom
Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance