UN health agency rushes to prevent malaria, cholera outbreaks in flood-hit Sierra Leone
Aug 22, 2017, at 04:48 am
New York, Aug 21(Just Earth News): The United Nations health agency is working closely with the Government of Sierra Leone to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as malaria and cholera in the wake of last week's mudslides and flooding in the country's capital, Freetown.
Ban hails UN-backed fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria as partnership model for Global Goals
Sep 18, 2016, at 01:41 pm
New York, Sept 18 (Just Earth News): Praising the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as a model of partnership that brings together people and development partners, governments, civil society, the private sector and people affected by diseases, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday said such broad cooperation is also the key to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
UN health agency’s African member States adopt new malaria framework
Aug 23, 2016, at 04:56 am
New York, Aug 22 (Just Earth News): With Africa still accounting for more than 90 per cent of global malaria deaths in 2015, the United Nations health agency’s member States in the region have adopted a new framework on implementing a strategy towards a malaria-free continent.
New report signals progress towards malaria elimination: WHO
Dec 10, 2015, at 03:08 pm
New York, Dec 10 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The world is making "significant progress" toward malaria elimination with prevention and treatment efforts saving more than 660 million lives and $900 million in case management costs since 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.
UN Millennium Development Goal target to reduce malaria burden achieved
Nov 20, 2015, at 04:06 pm
New York, Nov 20 (Just Earth News/IBNS): With roughly six weeks left under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – a set of eight universally-agreed goals adopted in 2000 to rid the world of extreme poverty and disease by 2015 – global leaders, diplomats and health experts are gathering at the UN on Thursday in New York to celebrate the progress made against one of the world’s leading killers: malaria.