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Health Uganda

23. January 2023

Group Effort Pays Off: Ebola Came and Went, in Just Four Months

In September 2022, Ebola broke out in Uganda. Only four months later, the Ugandan government officially declared an end to the Ebola outbreak in the country.

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Health The World

18. October 2022

COVID-19 Pandemic: the Light at the End of the Tunnel

Should the strong policies and measures proposed by the World Health Organization be taken by governments around the world, the coronavirus pandemic could soon be eradicated, as could future pathogens with pandemic potential.

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Health Switzerland

12. April 2022

Autistic Children’s Caregivers Get the (Online!) Training They Need

The World Health Organization, in collaboration with the nongovernmental organization Autism Speaks, is launching an online version of its training program for caregivers of children with developmental delays and disabilities, including autism.

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Health Saudi Arabia

18. March 2022

Public Health Problem No More: This Country Has Eliminated Trachoma

As officially recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO), Saudi Arabia has now eliminated trachoma — the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide — as a public health problem.

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Health USA

19. January 2022

Record Number of Vaccines Delivered to Developing Countries

The U.N.-backed dose-sharing initiative, Covax, delivered a record number of coronavirus vaccine doses in the last month of 2021: over 309 million doses were delivered to over 70 countries in December, roughly a third of all deliveries last year in a single month.

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Health Congo

15. November 2021

Vaccine Rollout Aims to (Re-)Eradicate Polio

A recent Polio type 2 outbreak in Africa led to the authorization of a novel polio vaccine, which has to date vaccinated over 80 million children across six African countries: Nigeria, Benin, Congo, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone.

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Health Myanmar

16. October 2020

One More Country Beats Disease that Turns People Blind

The World Health Organization announced that Myanmar is the latest country to eliminate trachoma, a preventable disease that causes irreversible blindness.

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Health Germany

25. July 2020

Germany Gives Record 561 Million Dollars to the World Health Organization

Germany is promising over half a billion euros – around $561 million – in funding this year for the World Health Organization (WHO), marking the highest amount the country has ever contributed to the WHO in a single year.

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Health USA

13. June 2020

Corona: Social Distancing Cut Flu Season Down by Six Weeks!

This year’s influenza season was predicted to be the most severe in decades – but thanks to the coronavirus lockdowns and social distancing measures, it has instead ended six weeks earlier than expected.

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17. October 2019