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World News in Brief: Deadly virus outbreak in Uganda, $500 million human rights appeal, Thailand’s lèse-majesté laws in spotlight

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday confirmed an outbreak of Sudan virus disease in Uganda, which is part of the Ebola virus family.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/YlXsMwi via IFTTT

UNAIDS welcomes US decision to keep funding life-saving HIV treatment

UNAIDS has welcomed Wednesday’s emergency waiver from the United States Secretary of State that will allow the continuation of life-saving HIV treatment funded by the US across 55 countries worldwide.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/bk017YP via IFTTT

DR Congo crisis: A public health ‘nightmare’ is unfolding, warns WHO

As UN agencies reported “relative calm” on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces could fuel a region-wide health emergency. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/2BaAjWk via IFTTT

Georgia: Malaria-free certification ‘a huge milestone worth marking’

The country of Georgia has been certified malaria-free following a nearly century-long fight to combat the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/9gB4xfe via IFTTT

What is the World Health Organization and why does it matter?

When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative. Doctors, scientists, presidents and prime ministers urgently convened the International Sanitary Conference in Paris in 1851, a precursor to what is now the largest of its kind: the World Health Organization, known as WHO. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/OIW9UGf via IFTTT

WHO launches $1.5 billion appeal to tackle global health crises

The world is facing an extraordinary convergence of crises that has left 305 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/8HBeJau via IFTTT

It’s not censorship to stop hateful online content, insists UN rights chief

Social media posts inciting hate and division have “real world consequences” and there is a responsibility to regulate content, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, insisted on Friday, following Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking programme in the United States. from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/K8Xg0sP via IFTTT

Avian flu risk still ‘low’ after first US patient dies from H5N1 virus: WHO

A day after the United States reported its first human death from avian flu, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) insisted on Tuesday that the risk to the wider population remains “low”.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/KTbSlZO via IFTTT

Syria crisis: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps

In northeast Syria, UN teams pressed ahead with a lifesaving cholera vaccine campaign in Al Hol detention camp complex on Friday, despite rumours of attacks by ISIL extremists and uncertainty across the war-torn country, following the overthrow of the Assad regime.  from UN News - Global perspective Human stories https://ift.tt/iAICZj3 via IFTTT