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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas travelled to northern Kenya this week to meet children suffering from severe acute malnutrition as a result of prolonged drought across the Horn of Africa. During the two-day visit, Chopra...

Four individuals in a clinic in the northwest Tucuman province died on Saturday, according to Argentine health officials. Legionnaires’ disease is a relatively uncommon bacterial infection of the lungs. The four, who also experienced high fevers,...

The bacteria causing a rare but serious disease was identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the first time in the continental United States on Wednesday, leading to the release of health...

The largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years has been recorded in official data published by WHO and UNICEF. The percentage of children who received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus...

Lata Mangeshkar, a time-honored Indian vocalist, was admitted to Breach Candy Hospital on Tuesday (January 12th). The 92-year-old singer, who suffered from corona, is now in the ICU. Although he was responding to treatment, doctors said...

Despite the world community’s accomplishments in combating the new coronavirus pandemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Tuesday that it is now in a very dangerous stage. “While we are making progress in managing the...

UNICEF continues its emergency support to India’s COVID-19 pandemic response by providing additional lifesaving supplies. The first nine of 26 oxygen plants are being installed, and over 4,500 oxygen concentrators and 200 RT-PCR testing machines have...

Facebook has reversed its policy banning posts suggesting Covid-19 emerged from a laboratory amid renewed debate over the origins of the virus, raising fresh questions about social media’s role in policing misinformation. The latest move by...

UNICEF urgently requires US$164 million to procure oxygen and testing supplies, medical equipment, personal protective equipment and infection prevention and control material to help save lives amid a deadly wave of COVID-19 across South Asia. The...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been vaccinated against the coronavirus, he announced on Twitter, urging everyone to get vaccinated against COVID-19, if there is a vaccine available in the country. “Today it...