State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
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WHO to allocate 38 mln USD to contain cholera outbreak in Idai-hit Mozambique
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that 38 million U.S. dollars will be allocated to contain and minimize the extent of cholera outbreak in central Mozambique in the next three months.
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WHO: Congo Ebola Outbreak Spreading Faster Than Ever
Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at its fastest rate yet, eight months after it was first detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Each of the past two
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Toxic air tears apart families in Mongolia
In the world's coldest capital, many burn coal and plastic just to survive temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees—but warmth comes at a price: deadly pollution makes Ulaanbataar's air too toxic for children
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Cholera cases increase to 271 in Mozambique's cyclone-hit Beira
The number of confirmed cases of cholera in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit port city of Beira has nearly doubled to 271 in the last 48 hours, the southern African nation’s government said on Saturday. Government
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Africa: Diseases Cost Africa U.S.$2.4 Trillion a Year- WHO
Praia — The World Health Organisation has launched a new report titled "A Heavy Burden - An Indirect Course of Illness in Africa" at the second Africa Health Forum in Praia, Cape Verde. "This report
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Lok Sabha polls: Campaign in UP to get environment-related issues included in parties' manifesto
LUCKNOW: Organizations working for the cause of environment in Uttar Pradesh want political parties to include environment-related issues in their manifesto. The clean air crisis has become severe in
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Kids suffer most in one of Earth's most polluted cities
Coal is everywhere in Mongolia’s frigid capital. It sits beneath the towering smokestacks of power plants in piles as big as football fields. Drivers haul it through town in the open beds of pickup trucks.
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Asia's Coal Addiction Puts Chokehold on Its Air-polluted Cities
Over the past year, the number of patients treated each day in the hospital unit where cardiologist Ade Imasanti Sapardan works in Indonesia's capital has almost doubled to about 100. Sapardan, who
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This poll season, parties need to wake up to air pollution
Nagpur: During the last general elections, the city’s air was much cleaner. Environmental apathy was neither a major concern, nor an influencing factor in the election discourse. The local political ‘atmosphere’
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Keeping phase III tuberculosis trials relevant: Adapting to a rapidly changing landscape
<p>One of the first multicenter randomized trials was the British Medical Research Council (MRC) streptomycin trial. From the first meeting of the special committee to “plan trials of streptomycin