Can Everyone, Everywhere in the World Get Health Insurance? A New UN Report Shows HowUniversal Health Coverage means health insurance for everyone, everywhere on the planet. It is one of the top Sustainable Development...
A Deadly Bacteria Thought to Be Eradicated is Showing Up in Rohingya Refugee CampsDiphtheria was thought to be eradicated in Myanmar several years ago. But the the highly contagious bacterial infection has suddenly...
Global Progress on Malaria Eradication “Stalled” According to a New WHO Report. Here’s WhyIt’s easy to think of malaria as an old-fashioned disease. We know malaria really, really well. It’s the kind of...
A Major Global Report About Nutrition Around World Shows That We Are All Eating the Wrong ThingsThe 2017 Global Nutrition report was released last week. It describes a world where people are eating the wrong things. While it...
Tuberculosis is easily treated. So Why Is It Still The Most Deadly Infectious Disease in the World?The World Health Organization released the 2017 World Tuberculosis (TB) report this week. The conclusions are sobering. On the one hand,...
Map of the Day: The Countries Where Pollution is Most DeadlyPollution is not just a nuisance. It can kill people–and by the millions. It also keeps countries worst affected by...
For the first time, Women Outnumber Men in Senior Posts at a UN AgencySomething looked very different when the Director General of the World Health Organization introduced his senior leadership team this week....
Map of the Day: Where Abortions are Most Dangerous Around the World45% of all abortions are around the world are “unsafe” according to a new study by the World Health Organization...
One year after promising to tackle Anti-Biotic Resistance, the UN assesses its progressTackling future threats is never easy. Last year, the UN launched a new initiative aimed at tackling a growing problem that could...
