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Today Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, and Dr Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, co-hosted the inaugural meeting of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation Council.
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Regions: Canada , China, France , Italy , Norway , Rwanda , South Africa , United Kingdom , Uzbekistan
Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health
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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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The European Medicines Agency announced today that its human medicines committee provided a positive benefit-risk opinion on the use of the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring (DPV-VR) for HIV prevention. WHO stresses that when providing HIV prevention for women it is always critical to provide these alongside other services including STI diagnosis and treatment, HIV testing and links to antiretroviral therapy for all women who test positive and a range of contraception options.
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Regions: Kenya
Topics: Global Health, Global Women's Issues
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Topics: Science, Technology, and Innovation