Famous Minions sending multi-lingual COVID-19 health messages
The World Health Organization (WHO) teamed up with the United Nations Foundation and Illumination to ...
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Global fundraising for COVID-19 vaccine, drugs exceeds $10 bn, EU says
A global campaign to fund the development of vaccines and therapies against COVID-19 has so ...
UNCHR to get $ 10 m for backing millions of displaced people
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNCHR) will get a $10 million contribution from the Solidarity ...
WFP needs $300 m to save 10 million children of acute malnutrition
The World Food Program (WFP) set out a new call of urgent need for $300 ...
Researchers seek tracking COVID-19 via wastewater
Researchers in the UK are developing new techniques to enable use of wastewater in detecting ...
USAID earmarks $ 23.4m additional aid for anti-Ebloa efforts
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) decided to provide about $23.4 million in additional ...
Oxford Univ. gets £65.5 m for developing COVID-19 vaccine
Oxford University will get £65.5 million finance from the UK government as efforts to produce ...
UN’s TAP to help developing states access lifesaving tech
United Nations agencies engaged in a partnership to launch the Tech Access Partnership (TAP) to ...
Reebok launches initiative for kids’ fitness under COVID-19 lockdown
The Reebok Foundation launched an initiative for getting children to be engaged in physical activities ...
WHO mobile apps for supporting health workers, informing people about COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to launch two mobile phone applications which are ...
Sydney Univ. launches $4m platform for real-time data on COVID-19
The Sydney University has launched a 4-million-dollar digital health platform to provide real-time information on ...
20-minute daily walk boosts immunity – study
Harvard University researchers found out that a 20-minute walk on daily basis can help boost ...
Johnson & Johnson targets 1 bn coronavirus vaccines next year
A Johnson & Johnson executive said Sunday that the company’s goal is to deliver 1 ...
AfDB water, sanitation project in Malawi wins Price Talal award
An African Development Bank (AfDB) -financed and supervised water and sanitation project, in Malawi, has ...
Egypt’s SWF, Concord sign MoU to create healthcare fund with $300 mln in first phase
Egypt’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) and the American Concord International Investment Group have inked on ...
$ 8bn global donations for responding to COVID-19
World leaders donated $8 billion during the Coronavirus Global Response pledging event organized by the ...
WHO, EIB join forces to back health systems of African states
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) joined forces to support ...
UNICEF: 4.5 m S.Asian children at risk over vaccine disruption
UNICEF cautioned that about 4.5 million children in South Asia are at risk over vaccination ...
SUTD expects Egypt to be free from COVID-19 in August
The Data-Driven Innovation Lab of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) expected that ...
WHO warns malaria deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa can double over treatment disruption
The World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned that the disruption in malaria prevention and treatment services ...
Japan extends $1m to address malnutrition in Sudan’s Darfur
Japan extended $ 1 million to address the acute malnutrition of 127,000 infants, mothers and ...