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Recommendations announced for influenza vaccine composition for the 2025–2026 northern hemisphere influenza season
The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the recommendations for the viral…
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Third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox 2024 – Temporary recommendations
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), following the third meeting…
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WHO strengthens support for grassroots crowdsourcing campaign: a global movement of unity and solidarity
What started as a grassroots initiative by a WHO staff member has…
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New report flags severity of US funding cuts to global AIDS response
UNAIDS said that at least one status report on the impact of…
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World News in Brief: Conflict in DR Congo, Europe’s ‘cradle to cane’ crisis, millions may go hungry in Chad
In an alert on Tuesday, UN aid coordinators OCHA said that six…
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WHO marks 20 years of its lifesaving tobacco control treaty
The agency is this week celebrating the 20th anniversary of the entry…
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Breast cancer cases projected to rise by nearly 40 per cent by 2050, WHO warns
The findings, published in Nature Medicine on Monday, warn that if current…
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New round of polio vaccinations begins in Gaza
It follows a campaign last year that reached hundreds of thousands of…
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Explainer: 5 common myths about child marriage
“I was married at 14, and I lost my first child at…
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Mass polio vaccination campaign to continue in the Gaza Strip
The emergency polio outbreak response in the Gaza Strip is continuing, with…
