An international donor conference on Friday raised $4.8 billion for the U.N.-backed COVAX plan to deliver coronavirus jabs to poorer countries, organizers said.”The pandemic is not over, far from it. Until we beat COVID-19 everywhere, we beat it nowher…
Without a single dollar of the $5 billion it requested for its global COVID-19 response approved, the Biden administration’s key program to help vaccinate the world is in danger of grinding to a halt.Even as the administration marked World Health Day o…
Washington, The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow prob…
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa has registered a total of more than 100,000 Covid deaths, according to official figures released Wednesday, but actual fatalities are believed to be much higher.Data released by the National Institute for Communicable Disease…
The World Health Organization warns the fight against tuberculosis is at a critical juncture. It says the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed gains made since 2000 in saving lives from the infectious disease. For the first time in over a decade, the WHO say…
On 17 March 2022, UK Minister for Africa Vicky Ford has announced a further £500,000 of UK aid for Madagascar following a series of extreme weather events.The new UK support will allow UNICEF to provide safe water, emergency sanitation and hygiene serv…
NAIROBI, Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced that a total of 17,327,143 vaccines have been administered across the country.The latest figures indicating the government is on course and will most likely surpass the 60 percent of the population targ…
ABUJA, NIGERIA — On the commemoration of World Water Day, UNICEF is raising concerns about Nigeria, where an estimated 70% of water at the point of consumption is contaminated.The U.N. agency said the contamination is why Nigeria has the world’s highes…
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