Global cancer burden growing, amidst mounting need for services

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Ahead of World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), released the latest estimates of the global burden of cancer. WHO also published survey results from 115 countries, showing a majority of countries do not adequately finance priority cancer and […]

Parliamentarians Empowering Global Health: IPU-WHO collaboration

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The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) reach a milestone, completing a five-year Memorandum of Understanding which has enabled important successes. The Memorandum, signed in October 2018, started with a grant of US$ 330 000, funding aimed at supporting parliaments to influence and support global health in countries […]

What is Disease X? WHO virus study provides roadmap to stop pandemic

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A hypothetical virus dubbed Disease X has world leaders convening at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week to discuss how to prevent the threat of another cataclysmic pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, planned to host a seminar Wednesday alongside other health officials in Davos […]