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Mashup Score: 8
The suffering of civilians in Yemen, a country enduring nearly a decade of conflict, remains severe and is worsened by a growing cholera outbreak, the UN’s top humanitarian official cautioned on Monday.
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The ongoing global spread of “bird flu” infections to mammals including humans is a significant public health concern, senior UN medics said on Thursday, as they announced new measures to tackle airborne diseases.
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Mashup Score: 42Ban smoking and vaping in schools worldwide urges WHO - 3 month(s) ago
Young people continue to be “relentlessly” targeted with tobacco and nicotine products, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday, in a call to ban smoking and vaping “whether sitting in class, playing games outside or waiting at the school bus stop”.
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Mashup Score: 2Gaza: UN health agency warns over continuing attacks on healthcare - 3 month(s) ago
The unrelenting war in Gaza hasn’t spared hospitals, their staff or the people sheltering there, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as it unveiled data indicating more than 350 attacks on healthcare in the enclave since hostilities erupted.
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The world enters 2024 with soaring cases of cholera globally, with over 667,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths last year, UN agencies have reported.
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Mashup Score: 126Dengue spike fuels concerns of public health threat in previously untouched countries: WHO - 5 month(s) ago
This year’s surprising spike in dengue infections globally represents a potentially high public health threat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Mashup Score: 126Dengue spike fuels concerns of public health threat in previously untouched countries: WHO - 5 month(s) ago
This year’s surprising spike in dengue infections globally represents a potentially high public health threat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Mashup Score: 108
The UN General Assembly is set to convene at 3 PM Tuesday New York time, to resume its Emergency Special Session on the decades long Israel-Palestine conflict, as the crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating and the Security Council remains deadlocked on further action. The world body is due to vote on a draft resolution demanding an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”.
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Mashup Score: 7World AIDS Day celebrates communities working to end the disease - 6 month(s) ago
The leadership of communities affected by HIV has been vital in driving progress to end the epidemic, UN health agency WHO said on the eve of World AIDS Day, observed annually on 1 December.
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Mashup Score: 60
Spikes in casualties, attacks on schools and shelters, including the death of a UN worker, and crippling fuel shortages blocking aid deliveries rippled across Gaza over the weekend, as the World Health Organization (WHO) helped to evacuate 31 babies in critical condition at the besieged Al-Shifa Hospital and the UN chief called for a humanitarian ceasefire amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine crisis.
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“Compounding these challenges is a rapidly escalating cholera outbreak, w/ over 40,000 suspected cases and a rising death toll, particularly affecting Houthi (known also as Ansar Allah)-controlled areas, where hundreds of new infections are reported daily” https://t.co/MNsv1JG2Ao