A sweeping collaboration among 12 major global health organizations launched today at the United Nations General Assembly, promising to elevate and speed up work to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good Health and Well-Being, by 2030. The event featured remarks by the leaders of Germany, Norway and Ghana, the original initiators of the project. […] Continue reading ->
[WHO/UNICEF] Despite progress, a pregnant woman or newborn dies somewhere in the world every 11 seconds More women and their children are surviving today than ever before, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released today by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). Since the year 2000, child deaths have reduced by nearly half […] Continue reading ->
An estimated 820 million people went hungry in 2018, the third continuous year in a worldwide trend of rising hunger. And over one-quarter of the world’s population, or 2 billion people in all, experienced moderate or severe food insecurity, according to the The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report for 2019. […] Continue reading ->