Governments can do more for universal health coverage: WHO
Universal access to health care services can be achieved if governments do more to ensure that there are health insurance schemes that cover everyone.
Universal access to health care services can be achieved if governments do more to ensure that there are health insurance schemes that cover everyone.
Dengue fever is becoming a major international public health concern, according to the World Health Organization.
Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda hundreds of thousands of children were left orphaned or abandoned.
To house the children, the country went from having four orphanages in 1979 to 34 in 2011.
The ongoing challenges brought on by the Syrian crisis could make it one of the biggest humanitarian emergencies in years.
Syrian civilians are becoming increasingly weary of the lack of progress in resolving the conflict in their country, says Georgette Gagnon.
As World Water Week comes to a close UN officials in Gaza released a report warning that, Gaza’s water supply could be undrinkable by 2016.
The annual UN conference held in Stockholm has focused on the management of global water resources since 1991.
The aftershocks of the January 2010 earthquake are still being felt in Haiti. But REBUILD Globally, an American NGO, is helping women in the Caribbean nation to take steps at styling a new future—for themselves and the country.
They say “no news is good news.” But for the relatives of people who have gone missing in armed conflict and other emergencies, no news can mean years of uncertainty, stigmatization and even isolation.
Approximately 18 million people are facing a food and nutrition crisis in West Africa’s Sahel region.
Nigeria is one of eight states that form the Sahel region.
Fifty students, faculty advisors and government representatives from 28 countries this week got a taste of what happens at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.