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Countries are making measurable progress in combatting viral hepatitis, but the disease remains a major global health challenge, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report published on Tuesday.
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On a red running track in eastern Uganda, coach Zuena Cheptoek is doing more than training runners. For many girls in the Sebei subregion, she is also a confidante, a mentor and first line of protection against female genital mutilation, child marriage and abuse.
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Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives, as ordinary people chose to protect themselves, their children and their communities from diseases like measles, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, and rotavirus.
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A growing share of global hunger is becoming entrenched in a small group of conflict-hit countries, with two-thirds of people facing acute food insecurity concentrated in just 10 nations, a major international report backed by UN agencies warns.
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Despite significant funding cuts, the World Health Organization (WHO) was able to support significant national health gains for hundreds of millions of people in 2025, according to its annual Results Report released on Thursday.
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More than 840,000 people die each year from health conditions linked to risks such as long working hours, job insecurity, workplace harassment and bullying, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Extreme heat is pushing global food and farming systems to the brink, threatening the livelihoods of over a billion people as rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves redefine how food is produced worldwide, a new UN report warns.
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New data shows that nearly three in four countries in Europe now use Artificial Intelligence in their health services to make a diagnosis.
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Measles vaccinations have saved nearly 20 million lives in Africa since the year 2000 and more than 500 million children were protected through routine immunisation, but the continent remains offtrack in the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases.
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The scale and speed of destruction from the wave of airstrikes in Lebanon which began just hours after the US-Iran ceasefire announcement, has left the country鈥檚 already strained health system struggling to cope, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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For 25 years, the world has made significant progress in advancing women鈥檚 right to health, particularly in sexual and reproductive care. Women are living longer than ever before 鈥� but they are not living better.
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As violence forces tens of thousands to flee Sudan鈥檚 South Kordofan state, doctors in a key maternity hospital are facing impossible choices 鈥� with too few supplies, too many patients, and lives slipping away.
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South Sudan is evolving into a catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis, UN Human Rights Council-appointed independent experts warned on Thursday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Tuesday for countries to step up action to end tuberculosis (TB) 鈥� one of the world鈥檚 deadliest infectious killers 鈥� by expanding access to new diagnostic tools that can help save lives.
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The death toll from a horrific attack on a hospital in Sudan鈥檚 Darfur has risen further, amid a 鈥渟harp increase鈥� in drone attacks against civilians this year, UN agencies said on Tuesday.
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An estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024, including 2.3 million newborns, according to new United Nations estimates released on Tuesday 鈥� highlighting a worrying slowdown in global progress on child survival.
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The UN World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing another $2 million in emergency funds to support health systems in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria as strikes against Iran by the US and Israeli continue amid counterstrikes across the Gulf and wider region by Tehran.
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Clashes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border have continued for a seventh straight day, with humanitarian access to affected areas still restricted, the UN said on Wednesday.
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UN human rights chief Volker T眉rk warned on Friday that the Epstein and Gis猫le Pellicot scandals are an illustration of intensifying threats to women and girls forced to suffer in silence.
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An international early warning system blocked a shipment of chemicals used to make fentanyl that could have produced up to 1.6 billion potentially lethal doses, the UN narcotics control body said on Thursday.
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