Gaza health system ‘catastrophic’ with hospitals overwhelmed and medicines running out, WHO warns

This article is published in association with United Nations. Public health conditions in Gaza are “catastrophic”, with hospitals operating far beyond capacity. Some life-saving medicines are totally out of stock, while deaths from malnutrition and disease are on the rise, the UN health agency warned on Tuesday. Fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals and under 38 […]

Funding cuts jeopardize global fight against tuberculosis, WHO warns

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that severe funding cuts – particularly in the United States – are threatening decades of progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), still the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The health agency highlighted that essential prevention, testing and treatment […]

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