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Three billion people globally lack handwashing facilities at home: UNICEF
Although handwashing with soap is vital in the fight against infectious diseases, including COVID-19, billions of people around the world do not have ready...
The Gambia to Strengthen Health Care Delivery in the Face of COVID-19
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a $30 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA)* to improve the quality and utilization of essential health...
Coronavirus in Africa, Less Deadly than Elsewhere in the World
Politicians and medical experts, at first, feared that Africa would be deadly hit by the coronavirus pandemic during the first half of 2020. With...
Bhutan’s Health Strategies for Covid-19
Her Excellency Lyonpo Dechen Wangmo- the Health Minister of Bhutan, discussed some innovative approaches that Bhutan adopted to deal with the crisis of the...
Coronavirus and the EU Vaccines Strategy
On 17 June, the European Commission presented a European strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing and deployment of vaccines against COVID-19. The EU Vaccines...
Pakistan’s War with COVID-19: A Victory for Now
From rethinking health care systems to the redefining of global movement and migration, the coronavirus has undoubtedly changed the world – Pakistan being no...
Global solution to COVID-19 in sight, ‘we sink or we swim together’
COVID-19 is an “unprecedented global crisis that demands an unprecedented global response”, the chief of the UN health agency said on Monday, unveiling a...
Protect lives, mitigate future shocks and recover better
Over the course of 2020 thus far, the coronavirus has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, infected millions of people, and wreaked socio-economic, humanitarian...
Russia Among Global Top Ten Improvers for Progress Made in Health and Education
Russia is among the top ten countries globally for improvements to human capital development over the last decade, according to the latest update of...
More research needed into COVID-19 effects on children
More research is needed into factors that increase the risk of severe COVID-19 disease among children and adolescents, the head of the UN World...