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Global vaccination stalls, millions of children at disease risk

Global efforts to vaccinate children against preventable diseases have stalled since 2010, leaving millions at risk for illnesses such as tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, and measles, according to a new study published Tuesday in The Lancet. The...

Decline in global vaccination rates leaves millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases

Decline in global vaccination rates leaves millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases

Open this photo in gallery:A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan. Vaccine coverage rates among children started to fall after the COVID-19 pandemic.Fareed Khan/The Associated Press Efforts to vaccinate...

Global vaccination efforts stall, leaving millions vulnerable to preventable diseases

Global vaccination efforts stall, leaving millions vulnerable to preventable diseases

LONDON -- Efforts to vaccinate children globally have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to tetanus, polio, tuberculosis and other diseases that can be easily prevented. Protection from measles in particular dropped in 100 countries...

Global vaccination efforts stall, leaving millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases

Global vaccination efforts stall, leaving millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases

LONDON (AP) — Efforts to vaccinate children globally have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to tetanus, polio, tuberculosis and other diseases that can be easily prevented. Protection from measles in particular dropped in 100...

OP-ED: Somalia’s Dawn After Debt Relief – Building Resilience via Capital Market Development and Private Sector-Led Growth

OP-ED: Somalia’s Dawn After Debt Relief – Building Resilience via Capital Market Development and Private Sector-Led Growth

Somalia has reached a historic milestone. On December 13, 2023, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank confirmed Somalia had hit the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) completion point, reducing external debt from 64 percent...

Empowering Youth, Protecting The Planet: United Nations Support Office In Somalia (UNSOS) Partners With Somali Universities To Train Future Environmental Advocates

Empowering Youth, Protecting The Planet: United Nations Support Office In Somalia (UNSOS) Partners With Somali Universities To Train Future Environmental Advocates

(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo Twenty-five students from SIMAD University in Mogadishu were given one day training on the practical management of wastewater and solid waste to help prevent pollution of the environment. The...

Spain, Morocco and Türkiye: Mediterranean countries ‘canaries in coal mine’ for drought impacts

Spain, Morocco and Türkiye: Mediterranean countries ‘canaries in coal mine’ for drought impacts

“Girls pulled from school and forced into marriage, hospitals going dark, and families digging holes in dry riverbeds just to find contaminated water - these are signs of severe crisis," says Paula Guastello, drought impacts researcher at the US...

Mediheal Hospital defends kidney transplant procedures amid organs trafficking probe

Mediheal Hospital defends kidney transplant procedures amid organs trafficking probe

Mediheal Group of Hospitals has come out strongly to defend its operations in the wake of growing scrutiny over its kidney transplant procedures. In a detailed statement signed by Deputy Operations Manager Dancel Njoroge N’gang’a, the hospital...

Somalia’s Dawn After Debt Relief – Building Resilience via Capital Market Development and Private Sector-Led Growth

Somalia’s Dawn After Debt Relief – Building Resilience via Capital Market Development and Private Sector-Led Growth

Rwanda launched a national exchange (RSE) in 2011, listing key entities and gradually incorporating bonds. Through proactive deregulation under its Vision 2020/2050 strategy, it simplified business registration, boosted investor confidence, and...

Ending Hunger In IGAD Countries: Moving from rhetoric to action

Ending Hunger In IGAD Countries: Moving from rhetoric to action

Tororo Woman Sarah Opendi speaking a the Women Parliamentarians Dialogue on Gender Land and Climate Resilience coefrence hosted at the Parliament of Uganda PHOTO URN KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Countries in the IGAD region, which include...

Aspen Medical launches defence, national security division

Aspen Medical launches defence, national security division

Canberra headquartered Aspen Medical has announced the launch of a new specialist capability: Aspen Medical – Defence and National Security. This strategic move marks a significant milestone in the company’s continued growth and long-standing...

COLUMN: Sanitation, vaccination and long war on deadly diseases

COLUMN: Sanitation, vaccination and long war on deadly diseases

'Why have contagious diseases become rare? Sanitation, please take a bow,' says columnist Seven centuries ago, bubonic plague marched across Europe and Asia. The “Black Death” had a catastrophic effect, killing between one-third and half of...

World Refugee Day: Why mental health support must be part of refugee care

World Refugee Day: Why mental health support must be part of refugee care

Hyderabad: Each year, World Refugee Day brings global attention to the rights, resilience and struggles of people forced to flee their homes. While conversations often centre around food, shelter and safety, one dimension remains chronically...

Global, Regional, and National Burden of Iodine Deficiency in Reproductive Women From 1990 to 2019, and Projections to 2035: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019

Global, Regional, and National Burden of Iodine Deficiency in Reproductive Women From 1990 to 2019, and Projections to 2035: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019

1Department of General Surgery, Cancer Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, 830011, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, People’s...

Hawa Hassan revisits her migration from Somalia as she visits war-torn countries

Hawa Hassan revisits her migration from Somalia as she visits war-torn countries

For those around the world displaced by war, food is a way to preserve culture and heritage. Hawa Hassan understands this as she was torn from her life in Mogadishu, Somalia and sent by her mother to live with family friends in Seattle. Hawa...

Polio Moose stuffie sales aim to eradicate infectious disease

Polio Moose stuffie sales aim to eradicate infectious disease

Rotary Club of St. Albert selling toy to raise funds Stopping polio in its tracks requires action. Since its inception in 1905, Rotary International has made it a primary mission to focus on humanitarian efforts, from promoting peace to providing...

Whilst the world slept

Whilst the world slept

Leonard (Len) could not stop laughing. It was unlike him. Len was a distinguished diplomat that served his country around the world, in his late 60s, tall, athletic, Jewish and with an extremely high IQ. He looked at all of us, his guests, and...

Can Improving Taxation In Africa Help Meet Health Needs?

Can Improving Taxation In Africa Help Meet Health Needs?

Waiting for malaria vaccination in Uganda's Apac District (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda)Getty Images In Sierra Leone, there was a time when “people were so happy to pay” local taxes, says Joanna Favour Tom-Kargbo, an economic justice manager for the...

Which countries have rabies? How to avoid disease after woman dies following Morocco holiday

Which countries have rabies? How to avoid disease after woman dies following Morocco holiday

Rabies can be fatal if it is not treated immediately (Picture: Getty Images) A British woman has died of rabies after she was ‘scratched’ by a puppy while on holiday in Morocco. Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had what has been...

Which countries have rabies? How to avoid disease after woman dies following Morocco holiday

Which countries have rabies? How to avoid disease after woman dies following Morocco holiday

Rabies can be fatal if it is not treated immediately (Picture: Getty Images) A British woman has died of rabies after she was ‘scratched’ by a puppy while on holiday in Morocco. Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had what has been...

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