Unsustainable fishing puts security and stability of EU and trade partners at risk
COVID-19: Pointing the finger at the alleged failures in WHO diverts countries from addressing their lack of preparation
"Pointing the finger at the alleged failures in WHO diverts countries from the painful exercise of addressing their own inadequacies and lack of preparation", on June 23rd,2020 said Charles Clift, Senior Consulting Fellow for the Global Health...
Study: Loneliness Did Not Appear to Increase During COVID-19 Pandemic
Contrary to expectations, the social (physical) distancing recommendations and stay-at-home orders put in place across the United States to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic did not lead to an uptick in loneliness among Americans, according...
COVID-19 upends ‘entire generation’ of 600 million South Asian children
Twelve-year-old boy in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, sorts through hazardous plastic waste...
NIH halts clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine
A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of adults hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been stopped by the National Institutes of Health. A data and safety monitoring board...
Luxembourg and WHO sign new Memorandum of Understanding, committing flexible funding to support WHO Triple billion targets
On18 June 2020 Luxembourg’s Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs and Minister of the Economy, Mr Franz Fayot, and WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the...
Pneumonia vaccine price drops dramatically for lower-income countries thanks to the Gavi pneumococcal Advance Market Commitment
On October 22, 2019, at the National Hospital of Jalapa, Guatemala, Randy Hernández Estrada (6 months old) is being treated...
World Bank-Supported Project Finances Cash Transfers to Protect Vulnerable Children in Tajikistan
Up to 50,000 low-income families with young children in Tajikistan will receive a one-time payment of 500 Tajik somoni as emergency social assistance. These payments are provided as part of the World Bank-financed Tajikistan Emergency COVID-19 Project...
Brazil Reports Its Record High of New Daily COVID-19 Cases
China’s capital imposed new coronavirus restrictions Wednesday to try to control a new outbreak, while Brazil reported a record daily increase in confirmed cases and the number of deaths in the United States surpassed those the country suffered in...
Mozambique Begins Closing Markets for Cleaning and Reorganization to Prevent COVID-19 Outbreak
The largest market in Mozambique's capital, Maputo city, remains closed Tuesday, the second day of a three-day sanitizing and reorganization to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
