Sustainability
World Health Organization reports 60 per cent drop in cholera in 2018
This points to what the UN agency described as “an encouraging trend” in prevention and control in major cholera hotspots...
Lesotho: Tens of thousands ‘one step away from famine’ as drought impacts harvests and UN launches flash appeal
The $34 million flash appeal will support more than 260,000 people “with lifesaving interventions” until April next year, Jens Laerke...
Thursday’s Daily Brief: tobacco burn-out, cholera cases down, ‘shifting the needle’ on climate
Time to ‘move the dial’ on climate ambition Six days after the originally scheduled closing of COP25, the head of...
Low cost breast cancer medicine move good news for women: UN health agency
The UN health agency has prequalified the biosimilar version of the medicine trastuzumab, which has shown high efficacy in curing early stage breast...
One third of poorer countries face both undernutrition and obesity: WHO report
A new report, published in the British medical science publication The Lancet on Monday, suggests that, globally, almost 2.3 billion...
Tokyo 2020 to have first-ever podiums made from recycled household plastic
In the spirit of solidarity and to highlight the contribution of sports towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the...
At this ‘critical moment’, UN chief urges anti-corruption conference to adopt united front
As corruption threatens the well-being of societies, the future of children and the health of the planet, “it must be...
Monday’s Daily Brief: anti-corruption conference, refugees’ summit, food extremes, Yemen aid
At this ‘critical moment’, UN chief urges anti-corruption conference to adopt united front As we enter the Decade of Action...
‘Embrace the transformation’ to a carbon-neutral world by 2050, UN chief tells COP25
“We are still losing the climate race”, Secretary-General António Guterres said in Madrid, “but we can choose another path, the...
‘Air bridge’ vaccination operation begins for Ebola-hit communities in DR Congo
According to the UN agency’s latest outbreak update, 27 new cases were identified last week in the east of the...
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