Israel to attend new ceasefire talks as UN says Gaza hunger crisis worsens
DOHA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The main U.N. aid agency operating in Gaza said on Saturday that acute malnutrition was accelerating in the north of the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepared to send a delegation to Qatar for new ceasefire talks on a hostage deal with Hamas. The United Nations Relief…#dohajerusalem #gaza #palestinian #israel #qatar #hamas #unrwa #mossad #davidbarnea #benjaminnetanyahu (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Kent Campbell, Pivotal Figure in the Fight Against Malaria, Dies at 80
Among his accomplishments in a four-decade career in public health, he helped pioneer programs providing bed nets in Africa. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michael S. Rosenwald Tags: Campbell, Kent (1944-2024) Malaria Medicine and Health Disease Rates Protective Clothing and Gear Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Gates, Bill and Melinda, Foundation United Nations Children ' s Fund Deaths (Obituari Source Type: news

Egypt: Health Ministry Enhances Support for Sudanese, Palestinian Communities
[Egypt Online] Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Egypt's Minister of Health and Population, met with Carlos Oliver, the Head of the United Nations Migration Mission in Cairo, along with his delegation. The meeting focused on discussing collaborative efforts to support Sudanese arrivals and wounded Palestinians receiving treatment in Egypt. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 15, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Egypt Health and Medicine North Africa Source Type: news

Africans Can Solve the Disease that Haunts Us — Here’s How
It is critical that African scientists tackle African problems, and the reasons extend beyond access. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS. By Khisi MdluliBOSTON, US, Mar 15 2024 (IPS) I was born in Brakpan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in eSwatini (known then as Swaziland). People in these two countries share one predominant fear: unemployment. Other worries in these countries and others in the region include unwanted pregnancies, low income and food safety. The diseases that are dreaded the most are cancer and diabetes. Feared infectious diseases include HIV-AIDS, COVID and cholera. Even though South Africa and eSwatini a...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Khisi Mdluli Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news

How the world has radically cut child deaths, in one chart
Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu via Getty Images Fewer kids are dying than ever before — but a lot of work remains. Children worldwide are less likely to die before they reach the age of 5 than at any time in recorded history, according to new data from the United Nations. The worldwide mortality…#gettyimagesfewer #unitednations #rwanda #mongolia #dylanscottvox #worldbank #africa #newzealand #southasia #birthtrauma (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Africa: Global Child Deaths Reach Historic Low in 2022 - UN Report
[WHO] The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 13, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Children and Youth External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news

Sudan to respond to new emergence of variant poliovirus in Red Sea State
A child is given the oral polio vaccine during a polio vaccination campaign, Sudan, November 2020. Photo credit: WHO/WHO Sudan11 March 2024, Port Sudan, Sudan – Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) will launch a polio vaccination campaign in April 2024 in response to a new emergence of variant poliovirus type 2 reported in January 2024. It was detected in six wastewater samples collected from September 2023 to January 2024 in the Port Sudan locality, Red Sea State. The FMOH, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), has completed field investigations and a risk assessment to determine the extent of t...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 11, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news

Africa: At the 68th Commission On Status of Women UNAIDS Calls for Action to Achieve Gender Equality and End Aids
[UNAIDS] Geneva/New York -- UNAIDS is gearing up for the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW68) which begins today and will run until 22 March 2024. #CSW68, the United Nations largest annual gathering on gender equality and women's empowerment, is being held this year under the priority theme, Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 11, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Women and Gender Source Type: news

Gaza aid ship waiting to sail from Cyprus as charity builds jetty, source says
A ship carrying tonnes of food for Gaza remained docked in a Cyprus port on Sunday as preparations were underway to launch a yet untested maritime aid route to the enclave, where the United Nations estimates a quarter of the population faces starvation. The Open Arms, a salvage vessel, plans to…#gaza #unitednations #openarms #uae #spanish #proactivaopenarms #wck #cyprus #joseandres #israel (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Most Densely Populated Cities in the World
There are currently around 8.1 billion people throughout the world, according to the most recent United Nations estimates. Of course, not all areas have the same population as others, and what may seem like a crowded town to you may be a sparsely inhabited one to someone else. In the past few…#unitednations #worldurbanareas #newyorkcity #connecticut #bridgeport #newhaven #waterbury #easthampton #trenton #newjersey (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Research methods challenges: A case study of preparedness in The Bahamas - Johnson TOJ, Jensen J.
Disaster research is essential for developing more robust and contextualised policies. It is, therefore, no surprise that multilateral organisations like the United Nations and the World Bank have called for enhanced disaster-related frameworks, legislatio... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Mega-events: assessing road safety through an operating framework: an application for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games - Cigognetti T, Carra M, Ghirardi A, Assefa NG, Ferretto L, Ventura R, Maternini G, Barabino B.
To meet the United Nations and European Union goals of reducing road crash fatalities and injuries, it is also relevant to address the negative externalities due to mega-events on the road network and the local communities, to assess the safety of the road... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Egress, Escape, Evacuation, Crowds Source Type: news

UNICEF: 230 million females are circumcised globally, 30 million more than in 2016
Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children’s agency (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Female Genital Cutting Continues to Increase Worldwide
Campaigns in some countries have reduced the practice, but it remains widespread in those with high rates of population growth. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen Tags: Female Genital Mutilation Women and Girls Vagina Medicine and Health United Nations Children ' s Fund Somalia North America Europe Middle East Asia Burkina Faso Egypt Ethiopia Sudan Indonesia Yemen Sierra Leone Djibou Source Type: news

International Women ’s Day, 2024Rural Tajik Woman’s Road to Empowering Women Living with HIV
Takhmina Haidarova, Tajik advocate for the rights of women living with HIV. By Ed HoltBRATISLAVA, Mar 7 2024 (IPS) Born and raised in a rural area in a traditional Tajik family, Takhmina Haidarova managed to finish high school with excellent grades and wanted to go to university. “[But] it was compulsory for my family to give higher education to boys, and girls were trained to be housewives,” she says. Her dream of higher education was instead replaced by an arranged marriage to a cousin. “I was strongly against this wedding, but my father decided for me and married me to him. I hadn’t even seen him before the wed...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 7, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ed Holt Tags: Active Citizens Civil Society Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Middle East & North Africa Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations Women's Health International Women's Day 2024 IPS UN Bu Source Type: news