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'Health at very center of disaster risk reduction,' say UN agency officials in Sendai

Mar 15, 2015, at 05:50 pm

New York, Mar 15 (IBNS) The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, powerful storms in the Asia-Pacific region and ongoing conflicts in Syria and elsewhere are all stark reminders that health and stronger health system capacities must be central to the new framework for managing disaster risk currently being discussed in Sendai, Japan, senior United Nations health agency officials emphasized today.