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The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed deep concern over the impact of US funding cuts on critical global health initiatives, warning they pose a direct threat to public health efforts worldwide.
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A new UN-partnered project to distribute essential childhood cancer medicines has begun in Uzbekistan and Mongolia, the first rollout for a project due to be piloted in six countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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The US pause in foreign assistance funding has created 鈥渃onfusion鈥� in the vital work of community HIV prevention, despite a waiver issued for HIV/AIDS programmes, the UN agency to combat the still deadly disease said on Friday.
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Some 230 million girls in more than 90 countries 鈥� predominantly in Africa and Asia 鈥� have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) and can suffer lifelong physical, emotional and psychological scars, an issue that the UN鈥檚 sexual and reproductive health agency has been tackling with the support of the international community including the United States.
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More than 12,000 critically ill and injured patients, including at least 5,000 children, urgently need to be evacuated from Gaza, amid the crumbling health system, the UN World Health Organization (WHO)鈥檚 top official in the region said on Thursday.
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As the world marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation on Thursday, the United Nations is warning that without urgent action, a staggering 27 million more girls could undergo the procedure by 2030.
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More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN Children鈥檚 Fund (UNICEF) warned in a new analysis released on Thursday, calling for urgent action to tackle the crisis.
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New executive orders issued by the White House are set to further impact the cooperative, multilateral work of the United Nations, two weeks since the United States declared that it was pulling out of the UN health agency, WHO.
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Sakina Sani was married off when she was 12 years old amid conflict and food shortages in northern Nigeria. She became pregnant at 15 but miscarried and then had two children in rapid succession.
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday he would 鈥渨elcome constructive dialogue鈥� with the United States Government over the decision made by President Donald Trump to withdraw.
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The worsening security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced many mpox patients to flee treatment centres, increasing the risk of transmission, the UN health agency (WHO) warned on Monday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease in Uganda, which is part of the Ebola virus family.
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UNAIDS has welcomed Wednesday鈥檚 emergency waiver from the United States Secretary of State that will allow the continuation of life-saving HIV treatment funded by the US across 55 countries worldwide.
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As UN agencies reported 鈥渞elative calm鈥� on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces could fuel a region-wide health emergency.
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The country of Georgia has been certified malaria-free following a nearly century-long fight to combat the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday.
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When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative. Doctors, scientists, presidents and prime ministers urgently convened the International Sanitary Conference in Paris in 1851, a precursor to what is now the largest of its kind: the World Health Organization, known as WHO.
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The world is facing an extraordinary convergence of crises that has left 305 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
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Social media posts inciting hate and division have 鈥渞eal world consequences鈥� and there is a responsibility to regulate content, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, insisted on Friday, following Meta鈥檚 decision to end its fact-checking programme in the United States.
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A day after the United States reported its first human death from avian flu, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) insisted on Tuesday that the risk to the wider population remains 鈥渓ow鈥�.
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In northeast Syria, UN teams pressed ahead with a lifesaving cholera vaccine campaign in Al Hol detention camp complex on Friday, despite rumours of attacks by ISIL extremists and uncertainty across the war-torn country, following the overthrow of the Assad regime.
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