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Global infant vaccination rates were up marginally last year, but shortfalls in funding, instability, and rising misinformation threaten to block further progress, the UNICEF stated.
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Funding shortage, conflicts hinder infant vaccination progress: UNICEF

HQ Team July 15, 2025: Global infant vaccination rates were up marginally last year, but shortfalls in funding, instability, and rising misinformation threaten.

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Gilead Sciences Inc. and the Global Fund have signed a pact to supply an HIV prevention drug at no profit to benefit two million people in low-income nations.
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Gilead, Global Fund to supply HIV prevention drug to two million people

HQ Team July 10, 2025: Gilead Sciences Inc. and the Global Fund have signed a pact to supply an HIV prevention drug at.

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The World Health Organization has unveiled a '3 by 35 initiative,’ urging governments to impose a health tax of about 50% on alcohol, sugary drinks and tobacco that are fuelling a noncommunicable disease (NCD) epidemic globally.
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Slap 50% tax on alcohol, sugary drinks, tobacco to curb NCDs: WHO

HQ Team July 3, 2025: The World Health Organization has unveiled a ‘3 by 35 initiative,’ urging governments to impose a health tax.

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The two hypothetical origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, namely the animal-to-human transmission and a laboratory leak, remain on the table as more information is needed to fully evaluate both, according to the World Health Organization.
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WHO says more information needed to track SARS-CoV-2 origins

HQ Team June 30, 2025: The two hypothetical origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, namely the animal-to-human transmission and a laboratory leak, remain on.

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Mpox cases continue to surge and meet the criteria of a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization stated.
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WHO maintains mpox as a public health emergency of global concern

HQ Team June 10, 2025: Mpox cases continue to surge and meet the criteria of a public health emergency of international concern, the.

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The World Health Organization has called on governments to ban all flavours in tobacco and nicotine products, including cigarettes, pouches, hookahs and e-cigarettes, to protect youth from addiction and disease.
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WHO urges governments to ban all tobacco flavours, nicotine products

HQ Team June 2, 2025: The World Health Organization has called on governments to ban all flavours in tobacco and nicotine products, including.

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The Food and Drug Administration has cleared GSK Plc’s drug for treating patients with inadequately controlled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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GSK Plc’s drug to treat COPD gets clearance from US drug regulator

HQ Team May 24, 2025: The Food and Drug Administration has cleared GSK Plc’s drug for treating patients with inadequately controlled chronic obstructive.

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Long-standing allies and new contributors have stepped up funding to the cash-strapped World Health Organization with a total of $170 million.
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Governments, philanthropic partners pledge $170 million to WHO

HQ Team May 21, 2025: Long-standing allies and new contributors have stepped up funding to the cash-strapped World Health Organization with a total.

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The World Health Organization’s members have approved a resolution for the adoption of a historic global agreement to make the world safer from future pandemics.
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WHO members adopt Pandemic Agreement with 124 voting in favour

HQ Team May 20, 2025: The World Health Organization members have formally adopted the world’s first Pandemic Agreement to make the world safer from.

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At least 78% of the world’s nurses are concentrated in countries representing 49% of the population, according to a global nursing report published by the World Health Organization and the International Council of Nurses.
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Global health goals face risks due to inequities in nursing profession: WHO

HQ Team May 12, 2025: At least 78% of the world’s nurses are concentrated in countries representing 49% of the population, according to.

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