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  • Coronavirus Global Response: Access to COVID-19 Tools-Accelerator Facilitation Council holds inaugural meeting

    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

  • More than 3 billion people protected from harmful trans fat in their food

    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

  • Letter to malaria partners (September 2020)

    This letter will focus largely on WHO’s efforts to address the double challenge of malaria & COVID-19. Our work in recent months has been carried out in close collaboration with country-based experts and global partners. We are very grateful to all of our partners for their ongoing commitment and contributions.

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    Regions: Chad , China, France , Italy , Rwanda , Sierra Leone , United Kingdom

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

  • Togo is first African country to end sleeping sickness as a public health problem

    Togo has received validation from the World Health Organization (WHO) for having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” as a public health problem, becoming the first country in Africa to reach this milestone.

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    Regions: Ghana , Togo , United Kingdom

    Topics: Global Health

  • 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

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