Water and Sanitation Crises Hit Women and Girls Harder than Men
Water and sanitation crises across the world affect women and girls more than men and boys, particularly since the responsibility to collect water in seven out of 10 households without individual water...
View ArticleWorld Set to Miss 2030 Hunger Eradication Target by 600 Million People
The world is on track to miss the United Nations’ target of eradicating hunger by 2030 by 600 million people, according to a flagship UN report on food security released Wednesday. The report, jointly...
View ArticleHuman Activity Pushing Planet Towards Point of No Return, UN Warns
Human activity is pushing the world towards multiple tipping points that will cause rapid and fundamental change to the planet, according to a new report by the United Nations University Institute for...
View ArticleHealth Sector is ‘Ill-Prepared’ to Protect People Against Heat and Other...
Heat is the deadliest of extreme weather events, and heat-related mortality could be 30 times higher than previously thought, killing 500,000 people annually between 2000 and 2019. Yet only half the...
View ArticleUrgent Call to Action: Why Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Deserves...
The global health community must stop treating water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as a little issue because it is not, according to Annie Msosa, the advocacy advisor for WaterAid in Malawi. Speaking...
View ArticleDengue Cases Approach Historic Highs Worldwide; Local Transmission Seen In...
Incidence of dengue virus has soared in 2023 to near historically high levels, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday, with more than 5 million cases worldwide and 5,000 deaths from the...
View ArticleThe Campaign to Recognize Noma as an NTD: How Inclusion Can Drive Research to...
A milestone World Health Organization (WHO) decision to recognise noma (cancrum oris or gangrenous stomatitis) as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) is the result of a longstanding campaign waged...
View ArticleAs Cholera Surges, WHO Publishes Safe Drinking Water Guidelines for Small...
From a community well in east Africa to a standpipe in an urban slum, small water operators furnish vital supplies for billions of people the world over. Now, for the first time in nearly 30 years,...
View ArticleShortage of Cholera Vaccines Spurs Africa CDC’s Quest for Local Manufacturing...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) needs at least five million cholera vaccines to address the worst outbreak of the disease on the African continent – but it has received none so far. Meanwhile,...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Mortality Reaches Historic Low
The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has dropped to 2.9 million in 2022, reaching a historic low, according to the latest estimates of under-5 mortality released today by the...
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