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Palestine: Rights experts call for stronger torture prevention measures

·September 26, 2023·1 min read

The members of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) issued the appeal after concluding their first visit to the State of Palestine, conducted from 10 to 21 September. Daniel Fink, who headed the delegation, said they received full cooperation from the Palestinian Authority to visit locations in the West Bank, “but...

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...

WHO launches new pandemic prevention plan, as COVID deaths fall 95 per cent

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·April 26, 2023·1 min read

The guidance provides a joined-up approach for responding to the threat or arrival of any respiratory pathogen such as flu or the range of coronaviruses, that have the ability to rapidly mutate into different variants. The new Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats Initiative, or PRET, incorporates the latest tools and approaches for...

Three years of flatlined progress on HIV treatment and prevention affect 2.7 million youth

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·November 29, 2022·3 min read

Three years of flatlined progress on HIV treatment and prevention affect 2.7 million youth Some 110,00 youth under age 19 died last year from AIDS-related causes, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, noting that coupled with 310,000 newly infected, the total number of young people living with HIV...