HIV: 17 million worldwide now accessing life-saving medicines
There has been an “extraordinary scale-up” in the number of people living with HIV who are now accessing life-saving medicines, according to a new UN report.
There has been an “extraordinary scale-up” in the number of people living with HIV who are now accessing life-saving medicines, according to a new UN report.
Plain packaging of tobacco products saves lives by reducing demand, and more governments should follow the lead taken by Australia by adopting the measure, UN health experts say.
A bigger insurance “safety net” for farmers at risk of losing everything in a natural disaster is being extended by the World Food Programme (WFP).
Panama has made huge strides in reducing hunger, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports.
A campaign to help around 50,000 subsistence-farming families in the Central African Republic (CAR) break out of their cycle of hunger has just got underway.
A father and son cycling team from Afghanistan have biked 7,000 miles to deliver a hopeful message of peace to UN Headquarters.
They reached New York after leaving Istanbul, Turkey, completing the first leg of what they hope will be a round-the-world journey.
“Peace is doable” in the Darfur region of Sudan with support and encouragement from the rest of the world.
That’s the assessment of Martin Uhomoibhi, head of the UN mission in Darfur, UNAMID.
More needs to be done to ensure the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs) move out of this category.
That’s according to Daniel Gay, an adviser with the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), the UN body which helps these 48 nations to understand the graduation process.
Agriculture is the “backbone” that will lift the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs) out of that category, according to a senior official from a UN agency that is working to eradicate rural poverty.
“Graduation is not everything” when it comes to the Least Developed Countries, or LDCs, lifting themselves out of the group.