Climate Health Pharma

‘Humanity has opened the gates to hell,’ says UN chief Guterres

HQ Team September 21, 2023: An emergence of virulent diseases due to rising temperatures, a mass exodus of people fleeing wildfires and distressing.

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Drugs Health Pharma

Illicit meth from Afghanistan a growing global threat: UN body

HQ Team September 12, 20232: Methamphetamine trafficking is expanding rapidly from the EU to Eastern Africa, changing illicit drug markets traditionally focused on.

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Climate Health Pharma

Severe heat, wildfires, desert dust whirl up air pollution: WMO

HQ Team September 7, 2023: Extreme heat due to climate change, combined with wildfires and desert dust, is having a pernicious effect on.

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Drugs Health Pharma

Refugee crossings through Darien Gap highest ever, says OHCHR

HQ Team September 6, 2023: About 330,000 migrants and refugees continue to cross the dense tropical jungle between Colombia and Panama risking their.

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Climate Health Pharma

Six billion tons of sand, sediments extracted from oceans a year: UN

HQ Team September 6, 2023: The global marine industry is pulling out six billion tons of sand and sediments, a non-renewable resource, from.

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Drugs Health Pharma

WHO alert on Indian firm linked to exports of ‘unsafe’ syrups in Iraq

HQ Team August 7, 2023: The WHO issued a medical product alert, the fifth such on an Indian company’s syrup, terming it “substandard,”.

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Health Medical Pharma

Drowning kills 236,000 people, mostly children, every year globally

HQ Team July 25, 2023: At least 2.5 million people died because of drowning in the last decade and 90% of these deaths.

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Climate Health Pharma

Forest cover, the size of 11 football fields, vanishes every minute: WRI

The world’s tropics lost 4.1 million hectares of forests, the equivalent of 11 soccer fields, every minute in 2022, according to the World.

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Health Medical Pharma

Sexual violence against women, girls in Sudan conflict on the rise: UN agencies

HQ Team July 6, 2023: At least 57 women and girls in Sudan were at the receiving end of sexually-related violence since a.

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Climate Drugs Health Pharma

UN adopts Rabat Declaration on refugee, migrant health

HQ Team June 17, 2023: The UN has adopted a new manifesto, the Rabat Declaration, to strengthen the global commitment to improve the health.

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