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Heart Disease-Linked Trans Fats Pass WHO’s Eliminate Date

January 24, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Heart Disease-Linked Trans Fats Pass WHO’s Eliminate Date

GENEVA, Switzerland, January 24, 2023 (ENS) – Five of every eight people on Earth, five billion people, remain unprotected from harmful trans fats in their food, increasing their risk of [...]

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Monkeypox Declared a Global Public Health Emergency

July 24, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Monkeypox Declared a Global Public Health Emergency

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24, 2022 (ENS) –  The ongoing multi-country outbreak of monkeypox constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared [...]

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Animals Can Form Viral Reservoirs Where Covid Variants Breed

March 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Animals Can Form Viral Reservoirs Where Covid Variants Breed

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 7, 2022 (ENS) – SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is still spreading among people globally as we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic. The [...]

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Russia-Ukraine War Creates a Million Refugees, EU Admits Them

March 6, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Russia-Ukraine War Creates a Million Refugees, EU Admits Them

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – On a press call to Geneva from Ukraine, Poland and Moldova on Friday, United Nations officials confirmed the vast numbers of Ukrainians who [...]

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Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries

December 1, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries

PARIS, France, December 1, 2021 (ENS) – The first global agreement on the ethics of artificial intelligence, AI, was adopted Thursday by 193 countries. All the member states of the [...]

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G20 Creates Finance-Health Task Force to Address Pandemics

October 30, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on G20 Creates Finance-Health Task Force to Address Pandemics

ROME, Italy, October 30, 2021 (ENS) – The G20 nations are getting serious about controlling the coronavirus pandemic and any future pandemic that might arise. On Friday in their first [...]

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Afghanistan Starves, Health System on ‘Brink of Collapse’

October 3, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Afghanistan Starves, Health System on ‘Brink of Collapse’

KABUL, Afghanistan, October 3, 2021 (ENS) – Some 18 million Afghans are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, health services across the country are at risk of collapse and widespread [...]

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Bloomberg Healthy Cities Partnership Expands to 70 Cities

August 20, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Bloomberg Healthy Cities Partnership Expands to 70 Cities

NEW YORK, New York, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a $31 million investment to bring six new cities on three continents into its Partnership for Healthy [...]

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Millions of Children Poisoned by Flood of Toxic E-Waste

July 9, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Millions of Children Poisoned by Flood of Toxic E-Waste

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 9, 2021 (ENS) – Effective, binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the [...]

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G20 Health Ministers Dissolve Barriers to Sharing Billion+ Vaccine Doses

May 23, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on G20 Health Ministers Dissolve Barriers to Sharing Billion+ Vaccine Doses

ROME, Italy, May 23, 2021 (ENS) – Leaders of the G20 have committed to a series of actions to accelerate the end of the COVID-19 crisis throughout the world and [...]

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Wealthy Nations Asked to Delay Youth Vaccines, Donate to COVAX

May 16, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Wealthy Nations Asked to Delay Youth Vaccines, Donate to COVAX

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 14, 2021 (ENS) – Scanty vaccine supplies in low and lower-middle income countries cannot cover even the innoculation of health care workers, the head of the World [...]

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President Joe Biden Protects Environment on Day One

January 20, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on President Joe Biden Protects Environment on Day One

 

WASHINGTON, DC, January 20, 2021 (ENS) – “A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear,” President [...]

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Calling All Film-Makers

November 9, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Calling All Film-Makers

 

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GENEVA, Switzerland, November 9, 2020 (ENS) – The opportunity has arrived for young film-makers to submit an original short film to the second Health for All [...]

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Virus Quarantines World Health Organization Chief

November 2, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Virus Quarantines World Health Organization Chief

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 2, 2020 (ENS) – The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is in quarantine tonight as he has been exposed to the [...]

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Impact Investors Confront Coronavirus Crisis

May 18, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Impact Investors Confront Coronavirus Crisis

 

NEW YORK, New York, May 18, 2020 (ENS) – A new coalition of impact investors has come together to bring their formidable entrepreneurial skills to bear on the [...]

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Global Vaccine Telethon Raises $8 Billion Without USA

May 5, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Global Vaccine Telethon Raises $8 Billion Without USA

 

BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – To battle the deadly coronavirus, six countries, the European Commission and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Monday pledged billions in [...]

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Global Collaboration Accelerates New COVID-19 Weapons

April 24, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Global Collaboration Accelerates New COVID-19 Weapons

 

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 24, 2020 (ENS) – The World Health Organization, heads of government, health officials, philanthropists, and the private sector partnered Friday in a collaboration to speed [...]

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