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LIVE: World leaders meet to tackle superbug scourge

Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is an invisible killer, so world leaders will soon gather at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters on Thursday at 10am local time to discuss the best ways forward and adopt a political declaration that focuses on a coordinated response to one of the most serious public health threats. UN News app users can follow here. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/T7xeyAo via IFTTT

Invisible killer: What is antimicrobial resistance?

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an invisible killer, which is directly responsible for 1.3 million deaths and a contributing factor to five million other fatalities every year. Everyone seems to have had a family member or friend who has either gotten seriously ill or died due to acquiring an infection that did not respond to prescribed medicines, and the underlying reason was often antimicrobial resistance. Yet, there are many ways of addressing this threat, from hygiene and sanitation to vaccination and avoiding overuse or misuse of medicines. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/eG0DsOv via IFTTT

World News in Brief: 1.3 billion teens suffering mental disorders, Russia’s Indigenous Peoples face ‘extinction’, Belarus rights update

At least one in seven youngsters has a mental disorder. That’s the warning from the UN World Health Organization (WHO), which has appealed for much greater investment to help almost 1.3 billion teenagers globally. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/JNbDAaX via IFTTT

Mpox alert: UNICEF issues $58.8 million appeal to halt outbreak in Africa

The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, issued an urgent appeal on Friday for nearly $59 million to support efforts to halt the rapid spread of mpox in six African countries including Burundi, where youngsters have been impacted the most. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/RlcQXCI via IFTTT

UNAIDS: Rising debt in sub-Saharan Africa costing lives

The report details how this debt crisis is jeopardising progress aimed at ending AIDS in Sub-Saharan African countries, which account for a significant majority of people living with HIV globally – 25.9 million people of the nearly 40 million total. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/iN1fJoT via IFTTT

Sanitary disaster in Gaza ‘worsening by the day’, warns UNRWA

Overcrowded shelters in Gaza, a lack of running water and the constant threat of disease are making conditions worse by the day for people in the enclave, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, warned on Monday. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/MbAuXOd via IFTTT

Health teams brave war conditions in Sudan to save newborn babies

The civil war in Sudan has brought to country’s health system to its knees. UN mobile health teams are attempting to plug the gaps, crossing conflict zones to help pregnant women to give birth in safety. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/f3FrWIe via IFTTT

Gaza: WHO chief hails ‘massive success’ of polio campaign amid tragic reality

Around 560,000 children under ten have been successfully vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency campaign in the Gaza Strip, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/3Bbl52n via IFTTT

WHO approves first mpox vaccine to boost access in Africa

The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the use of an mpox vaccine for the first time, which it says should facilitate “timely and increased access” for millions at risk in Africa where the latest outbreak has infected more than 20,000 so far this year. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/x6lKGTM via IFTTT

World News in Brief: UNICEF mpox response in DR Congo, ‘unprecedented’ threat to Sudan’s heritage, call to suspend Cambodia journalism charter

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is stepping up lifesaving support to the Congolese Government to protect children under 15 from mpox, who account for around 60 per cent of suspected cases and 80 per cent of deaths in the African nation so far this year. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/TwDESJk via IFTTT

Over 22,500 have suffered ‘life-changing injuries’ in Gaza: WHO

More than 22,500 people – a quarter of those wounded in Gaza since Israel’s offensive began – have life-changing injuries, requiring rehabilitation services “now and for years to come”, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/yuVr51U via IFTTT

Israeli airstrike hits UNRWA shelter in Gaza

A Gaza school-turned-shelter run by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), was hit in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday afternoon, the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General told journalists in New York.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/X8KIusl via IFTTT

Mpox: UNHCR launches $21.4 million appeal to support refugees in African countries

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, appealed on Wednesday for $21.4 million to urgently scale up health services for forcibly displaced people in African countries impacted by the mpox emergency.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/4F2rxi6 via IFTTT

Gaza: UN envoy condemns deadly strike on camp in humanitarian zone

The UN Middle East envoy has strongly condemned deadly airstrikes by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday on a densely populated area in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Gaza. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/rEF8bVl via IFTTT

Gaza war continues to shut hundreds of thousands out of class

Monday would have marked the start of the new school year in Gaza, but the ongoing war continues to deprive hundreds of thousands of children of this fundamental right, UN agencies have warned. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/1ioYGwM via IFTTT

The world must ‘wake up and help Sudan out of the nightmare of conflict’ says WHO’s Tedros

Sudan’s health system is “near collapse” after 16 months of war have left the country and its people facing what the UN’s top health official described on Sunday as the “perfect storm of crises”, which the world is largely ignoring. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/sn5GZRJ via IFTTT

Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change

The UN Secretary-General is marking ‘Clean Air Day’ with a call for global investment in solutions that tackle climate change and the increasing public health, environmental, and economic harm caused by air pollution.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/6LWM2QP via IFTTT

Mpox: Equitable vaccine access crucial for Global South

As African countries grapple with a deadly mpox outbreak, the UN independent expert on the right to health on Friday stressed that equitable access to vaccines is crucial in the race to save lives. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/IEbO9dJ via IFTTT

Gaza: 160,000 more children vaccinated against polio in southern Gaza

More than 160,000 children were vaccinated in southern Gaza on Thursday, the first day of a polio vaccination campaign there, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Friday. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/zPBWOt4 via IFTTT

Gaza: Polio vaccination campaign moves to southern areas

The second phase of a two-round campaign to vaccinate over half a million young children in Gaza against polio began in Khan Younis on Thursday, the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said in a post on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/8wJdHec via IFTTT

WHO reports 71 per cent rise in cholera deaths last year

The number of deaths caused by cholera is on the rise, according to global cholera statistics for 2023 published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/BcR5AM3 via IFTTT

Gaza: Disease and war stalk children, despite vaccine success

In Gaza, despite the success of the mass polio vaccination campaign so far, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday that the very children they are trying to protect have been blighted by disease and heavily traumatized by ongoing fighting. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/i8j2vwK via IFTTT

New WHO guidance takes aim at ‘antibiotic pollution’ from manufacturing labs

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday issued its first-ever guidance aimed at curbing antibiotic pollution from manufacturing.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/ulrRJUX via IFTTT

Gaza: UN humanitarians ahead of polio vaccination target

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that 161,030 children under 10 have been vaccinated in central Gaza during the first two days of the UN-led mass vaccination campaign, surpassing the initial target of 156,000. The figure amounts to around a quarter of the total population they aim to reach - some 640,000 children. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/XPR42OD via IFTTT

Between fear and hope, Gazans parents line up in their thousands to protect their children from polio

If the UN-led polio vaccination campaign currently underway in Gaza is to be successful in halting the spread of a virus that has resurfaced in the Strip after 25 years, 90 per cent of children under the age of 10 need to be inoculated. UN News correspondent Ziad Taleb has been speaking to some of the concerned parents. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/dZbI7ph via IFTTT

Gaza polio vaccinations gets underway

The first phase of a UN-led polio vaccination campaign has begun in the middle areas of Gaza. The operation aims to inoculate 600,000 children in the coming days. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/w6L8xCz via IFTTT