New York, Apr 3 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked World Autism Awareness Day with a call to action – urging the international community to take part in fostering p ...

New York, Apr 2 (JEN): The United Nations official tasked with coordinating the response to the cholera epidemic in Haiti says the country is not receiving the international attention it des ...

New York, Apr 2 (JEN): The number of suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola (EVD) in Guinea has jumped from 103 to 122 in just three days, with 80 confirmed deaths, said the United Nations W ...

New York, Mar 28 (JEN): The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday certified as polio-free 11 countries in Asia that together are home to a quarter of the global populati ...

New York, Mar 25 (JEN): On World Tuberculosis Day, the United Nations is calling for intensified global solidarity to eradicate the preventable disease, particularly by mobilizing the resou ...

New York, Mar 22 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appealed for better access and equality to health services for persons with Down syndrome.

New York, Mar 19 (JEN): With about half of the health facilities in strife-torn Central African Republic (CAR) having been looted, the United Nations on Tuesday appealed for immediate additi ...

New York, Mar 14 (JEN): The world community must do more, and do better, to tackle the global drug problem, senior United Nations officials stressed on Thursday in Vienna, kicking off a two- ...

New York, Feb 22 (JEN): The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that high levels of malnutrition could hold Zimbabwe back from reaching its full potential, ...