UN health agency delivers medical aid inside Yemen's Taiz city after...
Following months of blocked access to the Yemeni city of Taiz, and in response to mounting emergency health needs, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today it has successfully delivered more...
View ArticleUN agriculture agency warns of threat to food security from overuse of...
The overuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents is impacting rural livelihoods and food security, and requires globally coordinated efforts, the United Nations Food and Agriculture...
View ArticleUN agencies boost efforts to prevent further spread of Lassa fever in Benin
Following the outbreak of Lassa fever in Benin, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) officials in the country are scaling up an emergency response to help...
View ArticleZika: UN health agency launches global response strategy; Member States...
As World Health Organization officials briefed United Nations Member States in New York today on the Zika virus outbreak, the agency launched a global strategy to guide the international response to...
View ArticleFrom asthma to Zika, UN tackles links between environment and health
The list of health conditions that can be linked to environmental pollution and degradation is long and growing, including skin cancer, lung cancer, asthma, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, malaria,...
View ArticleBees can help boost food security of two billion small farmers at no cost – UN
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today highlighted the publication of a new study that quantifies, for the first time, how much crop yields depend on the work of bees that...
View ArticleUN agency puts fast-growing fish trade on the ‘sustainability’ menu
Top fishery officials are gathering in Morocco this week to discuss sustainable trade practices in a $144 billion industry that provides developing countries with more export revenue than meat,...
View ArticleMore investment needed in developing female-controlled HIV prevention options...
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today welcomed the “encouraging” results of two studies from Africa in which women modestly reduced their risk of infection by inserting a...
View ArticleUN agency to provide nuclear technique to bolster Brazil’s fight against...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today announced plans to facilitate the transfer of a nuclear technique to Brazil to help the country’s battle with the Zika virus by supressing the...
View ArticleUN health agency warns El Niño may increase breeding grounds for mosquitoes...
The above-average rainfall caused by El Niño that is expected in parts of South America until May could cause floods and increases in diseases spread by mosquitoes, including malaria and the Zika...
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