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Tilapia fish.
FAO/M. Hasan

FAO warns “lethal” virus affecting farmed and wild tilapia

26 May 2017
General News

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning of a highly contagious disease that is spreading among farmed and wild tilapia.

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WHO African Region

Experts race against clock to quell Ebola outbreak in remote DR Congo province – UN

18 May 2017
A race against the clock has begun to contain an outbreak of Ebola in a remote northern area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
WHO

UN health agency deploying technical experts to site of Ebola outbreak in DR Congo

15 May 2017
The United Nations health agency is deploying technical experts to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid an outbreak of Ebola virus near its northern border with the Central Africa Republic, the agency’s regional director for Africa confirmed.
WHO/S. Hawkey

UN informed of Ebola virus outbreak in northern DR Congo

12 May 2017
An Ebola outbreak in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has killed at least one person, the United Nations World health Organization (WHO) announced earlier today.
PAHO/WHO

Zika could end up costing Latin America and the Caribbean up to $18 billion, UN report finds

6 April 2017
In addition to the impact on public health, the tangible impact of the Zika outbreak, such as on gross domestic product (GDP), could cost the Latin American and the Caribbean region as much as $18 billion between 2015 and 2017, a new United Nations report has revealed.
UNICEF/Ueslei Marcelino

Vigilance against Zika virus should ‘remain high,’ UN health agency says in new guidance

10 March 2017
Although a decline in cases of Zika virus infection has been reported in some countries, there is still a need for heightened vigilance, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, issuing fresh guidance on the virus that has been linked to birth defects and neurological complications.
Lalchhuanzuali.
UN Photo/Daniel Dickinson

HIV-positive women "face more discrimination than men"

1 December 2016
General News

HIV-positive women face more discrimination than men with HIV according to a young activist from India.

Lalchhuanzuali was at the UN to talk about the problems facing young people with HIV, especially in accessing vital services.

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WHO

Citing geographic spread, UN emergency committee says Zika remains 'international public health emergency'

2 September 2016
Following a meeting of its Emergency Committee on Zika yesterday, the United Nations health agency said today that the infectious disease, and its associated congenital and other neurological disorders, continues to be an international public health emergency due to continuing geographic expansion and considerable gaps in understanding of the virus and its consequences.
WHO/D. Lourenco

Yellow fever: UN coordinating effort to vaccinate 14 million people in two African countries

16 August 2016
Working with health ministries in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations health agency is coordinating one of the largest emergency vaccination campaigns ever attempted in Africa to protect more than 14 million people against yellow fever in an outbreak that has killed more than 400 people and sickened thousands of others.
WHO

Measures to control yellow fever still needed despite drop in number of cases – UN health agency

9 August 2016
The United Nations health agency and its partners are continuing their programmes against yellow fever outbreaks even though the epidemic, first reported in January 2016, appears to be declining, with no new cases confirmed in the last six weeks.