Health

Malnourished children, many of them suffering from diarrhea, lie on beds in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, while their parents and hospital staff tend to them.
UN Photo/Tobin Jones

As rainy season starts, UN health agency warns of cholera outbreak in drought-hit Somalia

5 May 2017
Africa

Somalia is suffering from the largest cholera outbreak in the past five years and the number of people killed is expected to double by the end of June, the United Nations health agency.

Road injury is the leading cause of death in males 10-19 years, killing 115,000 a year.
WHO

On Global Road Safety Week, UN health agency urges 'Save Lives: Slow Down'

5 May 2017
Global

Spotlighting the relationship between speeding and traffic fatalities – speeding contributes to one in three traffic deaths – the UN health agency, ahead of Global Road Safety Week, is urging countries to take measures to curb dangerous driving behaviour.