Heres What the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health Should Do to Be Inclusive — Global Issues

Heres What the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health Should Do to Be Inclusive — Global Issues

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Hunger and food insecurity impact more than 38 million Americans. Black and Hispanic families and other minority groups including LGBTQ folks, consistently and disproportionally experience food insecurity. Opinion by Esther Ngumbi (urbana, illinois, usa) Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Inter Press Service Hunger and food insecurity impact more than 38 million Americans….

WHO to determine if Monkeypox should be declared ‘Emergency of International Concern’; rights expert warns of COVID ‘vaccine apartheid’

WHO to determine if Monkeypox should be declared ‘Emergency of International Concern’; rights expert warns of COVID ‘vaccine apartheid’

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The experts will meet on June 23 to assess whether the continuing outbreak represents a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the highest level of global alert, which currently applies only to the COVID-19 pandemic and polio. So far this year, more than 1,600 confirmed cases and almost 1,500 suspected…

WHO to determine if Monkeypox should be declared ‘Emergency of International Concern’; rights expert warns of COVID ‘vaccine apartheid’

Pioneering Namibia MP, Indonesia family planning board, win 2022 UN Population Award — Global Issues

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The individual laureate is Member of Parliament Emma Theofelus, who is currently the Deputy Minister of Information in Namibia and the youngest-ever winner of the Award. The institutional laureate from Indonesia, BKKBN, is a non-ministerial Government agency that formulates national policies, implements family planning initiatives and mentors experts in the…

World must ‘speed up’ efforts to end AIDS pandemic by 2030 — Global Issues

World must ‘speed up’ efforts to end AIDS pandemic by 2030 — Global Issues

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The AIDS pandemic continues to be responsible for more than 13,000 deaths every week. Yet, one year after adopting a political declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030, data from UNAIDS shows that HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are not currently…

Monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic countries warns Tedros; calls for more testing, vaccines to end COVID pandemic — Global Issues

Monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic countries warns Tedros; calls for more testing, vaccines to end COVID pandemic — Global Issues

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At a press conference in Geneva updating on both the current Monkeypox outbreak and COVID-19, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that 29 countries where the Monkeypox virus does not usually circulate, had confirmed cases. “The risk of #monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic countries is real. WHO is particularly concerned about the…

Global Community Urged Not to Relent in Final Push to Eliminate Leprosy — Global Issues

Global Community Urged Not to Relent in Final Push to Eliminate Leprosy — Global Issues

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, standing with Yohei Sasakawa, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2022. Sasakawa was honored at the Global Health Leaders Awards. by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Tuesday, June 07, 2022 Inter Press Service…

Over Two Decades of Impunity for Environmental and Health Disaster in Peruvian Village — Global Issues

Over Two Decades of Impunity for Environmental and Health Disaster in Peruvian Village — Global Issues

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Juana Martínez takes part in an October 2021 protest in Lima organized by the platform of people affected by heavy metals in front of Congress, holding a sign that reads: “Cajamarca. Mercury Never Again”. She was 29 years old when the mercury spill occurred in her town, Choropampa, in Peru’s…