Health
New York, Jan 11 (JEN): Two United Nations agencies are teaming up in a major new initiative taking on the herculean task of combatting environmental health risks, which claim an estimated 12.6 million lives a year. more
UN agency's mobile reproductive health teams reach women in besieged area of Aleppo

New York, Jan 4 (JEN)  The United Nations reproductive rights agency has reached the Sheikh Maqsoud area of Aleppo, where thousands of women have been cut off from medical care for y ...

UN Assembly calls on Member States to ‘accelerate progress’ on goal of universal health coverage

New York, Dec 13(Just Earth News): The United Nations on Tuesday called for greater efforts on the part of its Member States to ensure universal health coverage, and designated 12 Decembe ...

UN agency gravely concerned by lack of medical services in Syria’s eastern Ghouta

New York, Nov 23(Just Earth News): Despite escalating violence and increasing humanitarian needs, life-saving medicines, medical equipment, and surgical supplies are being prevented from ...

UN-led ministerial conference in Moscow agrees universal commitment to end tuberculosis

New York, Nov 18(Just Earth News): On Friday, 75 ministers announced a landmark agreement to take urgent action to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 at the conclusion of a World Health Organi ...

UN migration agency expands HIV/AIDS services in South Sudan displacement sites

New York, Nov 9(Just Earth News): Thanks to the recent expansion of HIV/AIDS services conducted by the United Nations migration agency, some 171,000 civilians and their host communities have ...

UN health agency recommends farmers stop using antibiotics in healthy animals

New York, Nov 8(Just Earth News):Farmers and the food industry should stop using antibiotics routinely to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals, the United Nations health age ...

Governments endorse UN-backed plan to tackle cancer, diabetes and other deadly diseases

New York, Oct 20(Just Earth News): Global leaders have pledged to take bold action to reduce suffering from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which include the world's leading killers – hea ...

UN health agency supports yellow fever immunization for 874,000 people in Nigeria

New York, Oct 18(Just Earth News): A 10-day campaign launched by the Government of Nigeria will immunize nearly 874,000 people against yellow fever in the states of Kwara and Kogi, according ...

UN and partners launch plan to stop transmission of bovine tuberculosis to humans

New York, Oct 13(Just Earth News): Stressing the damaging impact on poor rural communities in Africa and South-East Asia of animal tuberculosis’ (bovine TB) transmission to humans, United ...