How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
World Health Organization announces cost cutting after US withdraws funding
A staff memo has revealed the latest in a series of cost-cutting measures at the UN agency since Donald Trump's decision to with the US from the organisation.
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World News in Brief: Syria families executed, Duterte arrested on ICC warrant, Sudan’s healthcare collapse
Days of violence against Syria’s mainly ethnic Alawite communities have included the summary execution of entire families, ...
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What health experts have learned from the COVID pandemic 5 years later
From the long lines for testing, to turning New York's Central Park into a makeshift field hospital, the horrors of the ...
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Benevis Report Details Bidirectional Relationship Between Oral and Mental Health in Support of World Oral Health Day
Poor dental health can negatively affect mental health, and poor mental health can lead to the neglect of oral health, ...
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Sudan: 200 Health Facilities Out of Action in El Fasher, North Darfur - OCHA
More than 200 health facilities in the North Darfur capital El Fasher are not functioning, and that there is an acute ...
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UN Drug Commission Votes to Ban Cannabis Compound Under International Treaty
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) has voted to ban the marijuana component hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) ...
Santa Clara County Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody, who led pandemic response, to retire after 26 years
Five years after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, Dr. Sara Cody — the Santa ...
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Puerto Río Haina becomes first port to issue health certificates
The Ministry of Public Health announced that Puerto Río Haina is the first port in the Dominican Republic authorized to issue ...
Despite WHO exit plan, US still in Americas health agency
International: President Donald Trump started the 12-month withdrawal process for the U.S. to leave the WHO on his first day in office in January, and has since also overseen a dismantling of U.S.
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The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
More than a hundred and ten thousand government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book ...
U.S. Retreat From Global Public Health Signals Major Departure From Prior Policy
Trump's executive orders on global health signal a retreat from prior U.S. policy, which was characterized as a wielding of ...