• Health workers in Namibia provide services to children of the nomadic Ovahimba community. The project has been launched by the government of Namibia and UNICEF as part of the efforts to reduce the number of children who die before their fifth birthday. Thirty four health workers have been trained to reach out to [...]
Efforts are under way in the Kunene region of Namibia to reduce the number of children who die before reaching the age of five. The government of Namibia is working with the UN Children's Fund to ensure that the nomadic Ovahimba community in the region have access to health services. To achieve this, 34 health [...]
Over the past week, Hurricane Sandy tore a deadly and destructive path through the Caribbean and the eastern part of the United States. The full extent of the damage is still being tallied but in Haiti, as many as 20,000 people have had their homes destroyed, damaged or flooded. Dianne Penn spoke on the line [...]
Haiti is facing a threat of food insecurity as a result of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, according to a senior United Nations humanitarian official in the country. Johan Peleman the head of the Office of the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) in Haiti says his agency is still consolidating data of the destruction [...]
Governments of countries in Asia and the Pacific on Thursday launched a new 10-year strategy to promote the rights and wellbeing of persons with disabilities. The strategy was launched at a meeting in Incheon, South Korea attended by ministers, government representatives as well as members of civil society from 37 nations in the region. Charles [...]
A group of United Nations independent human rights experts have called on the Iranian authorities to immediately release two prominent human rights activists. The detained Iranians are Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer, and Jafar Panahi, an internationally acclaimed film-maker. Donn Bobb reports. Nasrin Sotoudeh and Jafar Panahi were recently awarded the prestigious [...]
Polio will not be eradicated in Pakistan unless the national programme reaches out to parents from high risk groups such as low income Pashtun communities. That's the conclusion of a study published this month in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Charles Appel reports. The study surveyed just over 1,000 parents of children under five [...]
Concerted efforts are underway in Uganda to control the outbreak of Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever. The first case of the deadly viral disease was reported on October 19 in Kabale district in southwestern Uganda. To date at least 20 cases have been reported in at least five districts including the capital, Kampala. Dr. Joachim Saweka, WHO representative [...]
Eleven people have so far died as a result of the outbreak of Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever in Uganda, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Twenty cases of the deadly viral disease have been reported in at least five districts including the capital, Kampala. The disease outbreak was declared on 19 October with the district [...]
