One of the world’s largest social programs greatly reduced tuberculosis among the most vulnerable
Brazil's Bolsa Família Program (BFP) is one of the largest conditional cash transfer programmes implemented worldwide. Since 2004, the BFP ...
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Yemen bears world’s highest cholera burden, deepening humanitarian crisis
November saw a sharp increase in cholera cases and deaths compared to the same period in 2023, with suspected cases ...
World’s most common heart valve disease linked to insulin resistance in large national study
A large new population study of men over 45 indicates insulin resistance may be an important risk factor for the ...
World’s oldest lizard wins fossil fight
A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed. The ...
Preparing for climate chaos in Timor-Leste, one of the world’s most vulnerable nations
In April 2021, catastrophic flash floods ravaged Timor-Leste, claiming the lives of more than 30 people and destroying over 4,000 ...
Chemists create world’s thinnest ‘spaghetti’
The world's thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team. ...
Nearly half the world’s 1.1 billion poor live in conflict settings
The finding comes in the latest update to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), jointly published by the UN Development ...
SOUTH SUDAN: Refugees fleeing world’s worst humanitarian crisis in Sudan confronted with lack of food across the border
… The looming threat of malnutrition from food shortages brings more risk … further precarity and exposure to malnutrition, disease ...
Sudan – New Data Shows World’s Largest Displacement Crisis Has Also Become World’s Largest Hunger Crisis (ForTheMedia)
Sudan’s war has set off the world’s largest hunger crisis, as the fighting continues to devastate lives and livelihoods. More ...
‘Giving help and giving hope’, an aerial lifeline to the world’s most isolated
The WFP’s Executive Director Cindy McCain said the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), which is managed by the UN’s food ...
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