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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

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

• Global polio eradication initiative applauds WHO African region for wild polio-free certification

  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

• 2 in 5 schools around the world lacked basic handwashing facilities prior to COVID-19 pandemic — UNICEF, WHO

  As schools worldwide struggle with reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43 per cent of schools around the world lacked access to basic handwashing with soap and water in 2019 – a key condition for schools to be able to operate safely in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  

  “Global school closures since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have presented an unprecedented challenge to children’s education and

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  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

• WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19

  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

• #EndTB Webinar: From Policy to Practice: Rolling out new WHO guidelines on rapid diagnostics and drug-resistant TB treatment

  A special #EndTB Webinar organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide key updates on recently released new WHO guidance on rapid diagnostics and drug-resistant TB treatment. The aim of the webinar is to facilitate better understanding of the guidance to enable its rapid uptake in countries by national programmes and other key stakeholders. This will translate to earlier access to quality diagnosis and treatment, and better outcomes for the millions affected by TB and drug-resistant TB.

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  Regions: United Kingdom

  Topics: Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

• First UN solidarity flight departs Addis Ababa carrying vital COVID-19 medical supplies to all African nations

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  Regions: United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom

  Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

• Statement of the Twenty-Fourth IHR Emergency Committee

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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

• WHO and partners call for urgent investment in nurses

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  Regions: United Kingdom

  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Global Women's Issues, Science, Technology, and Innovation

• First ever State of the World’s Nursing report launched amid COVID19 pandemic

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  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health