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Following the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and against the challenge of preventing premature deaths caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) took part in a dialogue organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) Monday on how to strengthen international cooperation on the prevention and control of NCDs.
“The UN, through the UN Office for South-South Cooperation plays an important role in facilitating, strengthening ...
Continue ReadingDuring her meeting with UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé on 8 September, President Michelle Bachelet of Chile reaffirmed her commitment to ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the country.
Mr Sidibé, who visited Chile from 7 to 8 September, congratulated the President for the decisive steps the country has taken to improve the quality of maternal and child health services and to expand HIV testing, treatment and follow-up. Chile has put in place pre-natal care policies aiming to scale up servi...
Continue ReadingChristophe Harerimana, a school teacher for more than 20 years in Rwanda, became worried in recent years. Many of his students were coming to class ill and were having trouble concentrating. “The children were having abdominal pain, diarrhoea and nausea. This made it difficult for them to follow the lessons,” says Harerimana, who teaches science and Kinyarwanda, the local language of his village, in the Musanze District.
Harerimana later discovered that many of the children had soil-transmitted helminth infections, wh...
Continue ReadingA joint event organized by UNAIDS and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held during the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York, United States of America, has shined the spotlight on the health, social and legal services available to women and girls in eastern and southern Africa.
Participants attending the session heard Sheila Tlou, UNAIDS Director for the Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, highlight the progress made and cha...
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