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New cases of leprosy are decreasing, but not at the anticipated rate. In order to accelerate the annual decline, countries should screen contacts and treat eligible contacts with single-dose rifampicin, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its guidelines.

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Regions: India , Indonesia , Sri Lanka

Topics: Energy, Global Health, Global Women's Issues

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

• 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

• 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

• New Ebola case confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

• Statement on the 5th meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee for Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 14 April 2020

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  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

• WHO Director-General’s Statement on IHR Emergency Committee on Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

• Medical Product Alert N°4/2020

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  Regions: Cameroon

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

• 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

• COVID-19: Multisectoral measures should be evidence-based: WHO Regional Director for the African Region

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  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19)