health

News in Brief 24 September 2021

  • COVID19 virus ‘blocker’ treatment gets WHO green light 
  • Situation in Belarus has continued to worsen in 2021, says UN rights chief 
  • Taliban can’t rule Afghanistan without us women, says mayor who fled Kabul 
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News in Brief 22 September 2021

  • Afghanistan’s health care system on brink of collapse: Tedros 
  • US-China commitments on climate action welcomed 
  • Children’s diets did not improve in last decade, ‘could get much worse’ 
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Afghanistan’s healthcare system on brink of collapse, as hunger hits 95 per cent of families

Afghanistan’s health system is on the brink of collapse, the head of the World Health Organisation, WHO, warned on Wednesday, while on the streets of Kabul, the hunger families are suffering is as acute in urban areas as the drought-stricken rural parts of the country. 

News in Brief 30 August 2021

  • Afghanistan: lifesaving medical supplies reach Mazar-i-Sharif - WHO
  • UN COVID-19 measures unveiled to help keep schools
  • UNHCR calls for all States to join the effort to eradicate statelessness
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News in Brief 13 August 2021

  • Fast-moving Afghanistan crisis ‘has hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe'
  • UN health agency WHO urges support for new COVID-19 origins studies
  • Widespread DRCongo sexual abuse alert from UNHCR
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News in Brief 12 August 2021

  • UN weather agency WMO seeks to confirm 48.8C ‘record’ heat spike in Sicily
  • Afghanistan seeks spike in people fleeing amid Taliban advance
  • 3 new COVID-19 drugs picked for latest #Solidarity trials: WHO
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News in Brief 11 August 2021

  • Somali hunger crisis leaves 800,000 children on the brink
  • Human rights protection call for Yezidi activist in Armenia
  • Race is on to stop deadly Marburg virus in its tracks: WHO
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News in Brief 5 August 2021

  • ASEAN Myanmar mediator appointment welcomed by UN chief Guterres
  • COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa set to ramp up, says WHO
  • Refugee resettlement yet to recover from coronavirus restrictions
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News in Brief 3 August 2021

  • UN human rights chief urges accountability for Beirut blasts, one year on
  • Wide impact of healthcare attacks: WHO
  • UN General Assembly agrees global eye care initiative
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Delta variant, a warning the COVID-19 virus is getting ‘fitter and faster’

Cases and deaths resulting from COVID-19 continue to climb worldwide, mostly fuelled by the highly transmissible Delta variant, which has spread to 132 countries, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday.