The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, highlighted WHO’s commitment to the final push to eradicate polio on a four-day visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He also commended the governments of both countries for their efforts to provide universal access to health services.
Independent humanitarian agencies remain largely blocked from accessing vulnerable communities in northern Rakhine, raising major concerns about unmet medical and humanitarian needs.
Provisions in the Trade Bill let ministers change laws like the Equality Act without parliamentary scrutiny, in order to implement international trade agreements.
New research by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute has found that millions of people with mental health problems are left unable to effectively use essential services due to difficulties with tasks like making telephone calls, opening the post or navigating complex online forms.
The United Nations and partners reached the Syrian city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta on 9 March 2018 to complete the distribution of food aid after intense shelling cut short deliveries to the war-torn enclave earlier in the week.
After multiple attempts in recent weeks to gain humanitarian access to Eastern Ghouta, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reached the town of Douma as part of a joint aid convoy with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the United Nations.