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ViiV Healthcare, majority owned by GSK, has signed a pact with the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to enable generic access to its HIV treatment in 133 countries.
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ViiV to grant generic access to its HIV medicine to benefit 133 nations

HQ Team July 15, 2025: ViiV Healthcare, majority owned by GSK, has signed a pact with the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to.

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A sponge-like material with long, microscopic air pockets that uses sunlight and a simple plastic cover can turn saltwater into freshwater, according to Chinese researchers.
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Chinese researchers use aerogels, sunlight to desalinate seawater

HQ Team July 6, 2025: A sponge-like material with long, microscopic air pockets that uses sunlight and a simple plastic cover can turn.

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UN relief chief Tom Fletcher has told the Security Council that the ambassadors must finally act decisively "to prevent genocide" and ensure respect for international law in Gaza, where it has been 10 weeks since humanitarian aid has been delivered.
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Security Council must act to prevent ‘genocide’ in Gaza: UN relief chief says

HQ Team May 14, 2025: UN relief chief Tom Fletcher has told the Security Council that the ambassadors must finally act decisively “to.

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UN for new equity-based, resilient model for Asia-Pacific megacities 

HQ Team April 27, 2025: As the climate crisis pushes many of Asia’s sprawling megacities to their limits, a UN body has called.

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Escalating hostilities and limited access to medical supplies are exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza depriving civilians of shelter, food and medicine, the UN warns.
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Dire humanitarian crisis engulfs Gaza Strip, displaced people swell: UN 

HQ Team April 17, 2025: Escalating hostilities and limited access to medical supplies are exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza depriving.

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The United Nations has warned that “unprecedented” global aid cuts could derail a three-year trend of a 40% decline in maternal deaths as one maternal death occurred every two minutes worldwide in 2023.
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Maternal mortality rates may fail UN goal, global aid cuts the main culprit 

HQ Team April 9, 2025: The United Nations has warned that “unprecedented” global aid cuts could derail a three-year trend of a 40%.

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Sudan’s humanitarian crisis and security situation remain “dire and worsening,” with a famine looming on the horizon, according to a UN official.
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Sudan heading for famine as fighting ravages Darfur, UN warns

HQ Team April 2, 2025: Sudan’s humanitarian crisis and security situation remain “dire and worsening,” with a famine looming on the horizon, according.

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Progress in slowing child mortality and stillbirth deaths has received a severe blow due to funding cuts and shortages, with 1.9 million children dying in 2023 on account of stillbirths.
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Funding cuts ‘severely’ bleeding UN’s child survival, stillbirth programs

HQ Team March 25, 2025: Progress in slowing child mortality and stillbirth deaths has received a severe blow due to global funding cuts.

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Forty-nine bodies, likely of migrants, were found in two mass graves in Libya, according to the UN agency, the International Office of Migration.
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UN says 49 bodies of possible migrants found in two Libyan mass graves

Forty-nine bodies, likely of migrants, were found in two mass graves in Libya, according to the UN agency, the International Office of Migration.

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Negotiators at a global climate conference signed a $300 billion-a-year deal to finance emissions reduction — that developing nations say falls way short of their expectations.
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Global warming on backburner; vexed financing deal sees light at COP29 

Global representatives at a climate conference signed a $300 billion-a-year deal to finance emissions reductions — a move developing nations say falls way.

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