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US funding cuts threaten the world’s world response, which warns the chief

In a press conference on Tuesday, the director general of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stressed the consequences of financing suspensions, in particular disturbances in the treatment of HIV, setbacks of the eradication of polio and limited resources for Respond to MPOX epidemics in Africa. “The suspension of funding at PEPFAR, the president’s emergency plan for

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The launch of the MedDS platform gives children with cancer a chance to fight

About 400,000 children receive a cancer diagnosis each year and most of them live in low -income countries where drugs are unavailable or unavailable, resulting in an overwhelming mortality rate of 70%. In high -income countries, more than eight in 10 children diagnosed survive. “”The platform is now defined to fill this gap“Said Dr. Andre

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“ She had a syringe, a razor blade and bandages ”: survive genital mutilation

Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24 -year -old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day when, at ten, an unexpected visitor came to her house: “She had a syringe, a blade and razor bandages.” The woman was there to carry out a brutal operation, useless and – since 1995 in the country of the Horn of Africa

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Gaza: The United Nations Health Agency urges a rapid scaling of Medevacs as thousands of people remain in critical condition

Speaking of Gaza, whose representative Rik Peeperkorn described a scene of generalized destruction, outdated medical facilities and growing mental health needs, because the population of the enclave gradually returns to what remains of their homes after near 16 months of conflict. “Everyone in Gaza is affected … stress, anxiety, depression and loneliness. It is everywhere,

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“ Intensify the rhythm ” and put an end to female genital mutilation, says the UN

Female genital mutilations (MGF) refer to all procedures involving partial or total elimination of female external genitals or other injuries to female genital organs for non -medical reasons, according to the World Health Organization (OM ). “More than 230 million living girls and women today are survivors of this odious practice”, ” said UN secretary

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Reductions for financing aid in the United States endangering HIV prevention, warns UNAIDS

The renunciation allows the continuation or resumption of “vital humanitarian aid”, including the treatment of HIV. This means that 20 million people living with HIV and whose drugs are funded by the United States can continue to receive treatment. “This represents 20 million out of the 30 million people living with HIV worldwide,” said Christine

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World News in Brief: American executive orders continue, murders in Sudan, alert of breast cancer in Africa, human rights in Tunisia

According to the last directive of President Trump of the White House on Tuesday on international cooperation, the United States will no longer participate or will not financially support the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which should meet on Friday to discuss the crisis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The executive decree also

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World News in Brief: Who Chef asks us to reconsider withdrawal, gender parity remains a distant goal, call to rethink the change in Nordic law on alcohol

The executive decree of President Trump of January 20 is regrettable “and we hope that the United States reconsidering,” said OMS Tedros Adhanomesusususus Director, in a speech to the Executive Council of the Organization. The WHO chief said he would welcome the opportunity “to preserve and strengthen the historical relationship between WHO and the United

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