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WHO reports 71 per cent rise in cholera deaths last year

·September 9, 2024·1 min read

Over 4000 people died from the disease last year, a 71 per cent increase compared to 2022. The number of reported cases also increased by 13 per cent. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection spread through contaminated food and water. While it is preventable and easily treatable, communities with limited access...

World News in Brief: Child deaths in Ukraine, alarm over US death row ‘experiment’, Timor Leste nutrition boost

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·January 3, 2024·3 min read

“Over the last six days, children and families, and the infrastructure they rely on have come under attack in Dnipro, Lviv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa, and other populated areas”, said Munir Mammadzade. With schools and health facilities destroyed and damaged, “Ukraine’s youngest citizens continue to bear the brunt of these attacks....

Gaza crisis: aid agencies warn of ‘tragic, avoidable surge’ in child deaths

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·November 22, 2023·4 min read

“About 160 children are killed every day; that’s one every 10 minutes,” said UN World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Christian Lindmeier, echoing concerns from the UN Children’s Fund about the serious additional threat of a mass disease outbreak in the enclave. “If youngsters continue to have restricted access to water...

Child deaths from wasting are predictable and preventable: WHO chief

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·November 20, 2023·2 min read

Convened by the Government of the United Kingdom, the day-long conference brought together representatives from more than 20 countries to shore up efforts to achieve zero hunger and end malnutrition, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Far off track Speaking during a session on creating new approaches to...

‘This must stop,’ UN chief says as deaths, displacement ripple across Gaza

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·November 19, 2023·6 min read

Top UN officials echoed that call to improve conditions for Gaza’s 2.3 million people, 1.7 million of which have been displaced since the 7 October Hamas attack in Israel resulted in the killing of 1,200 Israelis and capture of 240 hostages. Since then, more than 11,000 people have been killed...

World News in Brief: Funds dry up for Afghan quake survivors, child deaths alert in Sudan, diphtheria outbreak in Guinea

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·October 18, 2023·2 min read

That’s the message from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which appealed on Wednesday for $19 million to provide emergency food assistance to those “in desperate need” in the country’s western Herat province. The agency’s deputy director in Afghanistan Ana Maria Salhuana stressed that to assist earthquake survivors WFP “is...

World News in Brief: 500 million heading into extreme poverty, Afghanistan quake latest, Darfur deaths mount

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·October 18, 2023·3 min read

Marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Mr. Guterres pointed out that nearly 700 million people are living on less than $2.15 per day and over a billion don’t have access to basic needs like food, water, health care and education. Billions more lack sanitation and access to energy,...

UNICEF laments deaths of pregnant mother and toddler in Mediterranean shipwreck

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·August 9, 2023·1 min read

A pregnant woman and a young child died when two boats carrying scores of migrants sank in rough seas off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, according to media reports. The boats had reportedly departed from Sfax, Tunisia, and many of the passengers were believed to be from sub-Saharan...

Sudan: Child deaths rise, concern intensifies for refugees after 100 days of battle

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·July 24, 2023·1 min read

The UN agency added that there have been more than 2,500 severe violations of children’s rights – an average of more than one an hour – in a country where 14 million youngsters need aid relief. “As we reach more than 100 days since the conflict in Sudan escalated, we...

Unitaid: Close to a million deaths by 2035 if TB prevention is not acted on

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·July 20, 2023·1 min read

The UN agency insisted that implementing a combined strategy of identifying household contacts and providing TB preventive treatment is cost-effective. Unitaid said it could cut deaths by 35 per cent among household contacts of patients and people living with HIV in the next 12 years. Saving children’s lives The joint...

World ‘wilfully ignoring’ child deaths during dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossings

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·July 15, 2023·2 min read

The figure is equivalent to about 11 children dying each week, “far beyond what we hear in news headlines,” Vera Knaus, the agency’s Global Lead on Migration and Displacement, told journalists attending the biweekly UN humanitarian briefing in Geneva. “We cannot continue to ignore what is happening – stand by...

Road Safety Week: African nations steer towards reducing deaths

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·May 15, 2023·5 min read

Increasingly grim accident statistics provided the impetus for action, including two bus crashes in Senegal that claimed 62 lives in January. In nearby Côte d’Ivoire, the daily number of fatal road accidents has risen to 46, from just 12 in 2012. In the world’s region most affected by road crashes,...