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The European Union and United States appear to have entered a full-blown trade war, with Trump and Brussels exchanging tariffs. The EU's former trade commissioner thinks there will be no winners.
Published on: March 13, 2025 | Source:WHO and Switzerland have announced the renewal of their cooperation strategy for the period 2024-2028. In 2013, Switzerland became the first high-income country in the WHO European Region to pilot a cooperation strategy with WHO (hereafter referred to as the WHO-Switzerland Cooperation Strategy). In 2022, WHO and Switzerland jointly decided to update and renew this cooperation strategy, which was done on 4 March 2025...
Published on: March 07, 2025 | Source:The recent surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has led to significant loss of life, trauma, displacement, and the destruction of critical health infrastructure, exacerbating an already dire situation for millions of people.The situation remains tense and volatile, and the health needs are immense. WHO remains on the ground, and has continued to respond to the health needs by providing...
Published on: February 07, 2025 | Source:In a global first, Ugandaβs Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first-ever clinical efficacy trial for a vaccine from Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at an unprecedented speed for a randomized vaccine trial, in an emergency. This is the first trial to assess the clinical efficacy of a vaccine against Ebola Sudan virus disease. IAVI, the provider of...
Published on: February 03, 2025 | Source:WHO and partners have immediately boosted their support to the Ugandan governmentβs response to an outbreak of Sudan virus disease outbreak (SVD, part of the Ebola family), including by facilitating access to a candidate vaccine and candidate treatments. The first 2160 doses of the vaccine candidate and the treatments are already in Kampala, Uganda, as they were prepositioned as part of outbreak preparedness. The...
Published on: January 31, 2025 | Source:Exit taxes are popular, and counter-productive
Published on: January 23, 2025 | Source:Exit taxes are popular, and counter-productive
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