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Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria in young children and pregnant women, more people were getting sick with malaria, according to a new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO

Children in Kenya get vaccinated with the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S vaccine, one of the three pilot countries that participated in the Malaria vaccine implementation programme. UNICEF

In the run-up to COP28, the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the global health community, is raising its voice to ensure that the impact of climate change on health takes centre stage in the negotiations. WHO

Shipments of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331,200 doses landing in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previously involved in the malaria vaccine pilot programme and signals that scale-up of vaccination against malaria across the highest-risk areas on the African continent will begin shortly. UNICEF

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the Organization has verified 237 attacks on health care, including 218 in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and 19 in Israel. He reiterated, “attacks on health care are a violation of international humanitarian law.” WHO

With more frequent extreme weather events and the world warming up faster than at any point in recorded history, human health – particularly in the most vulnerable communities - is increasingly threatened, stated a new multi-agency report coordinated by the UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) which focused its 2023 annual report “State of Climate Series” on health. UNTV CH

The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said, “We call for the immediate and safe release of hostages seized and taken into Gaza by Hamas and other armed groups, among them children, older people and those who need urgent medical care. We continue to appeal to Israel and Hamas to abide by their obligations under international law to protect civilians and health care.” WHO

The humanitarian crisis in Chad that’s been driven by a deadly combination of food insecurity, forced displacement, health emergencies and climate change shocks prompted an urgent UN request on Monday for funding to assist seven million people out of at total population of 18 million. UNTV CH

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, for the prevention of malaria in children. WHO

Ongoing conflict in Sudan has overwhelmed health facilities in the country due to shortages of staff, lifesaving medicine and critical equipment, exacerbating current outbreaks and causing unnecessary deaths. UNHCR