Health

This topic covers a wide range of issues related to the EU commitment to protect and promote health as a human right for all in the frame of the EC external cooperation. Support to the building of competent health systems, accessibility to basic health services, equity and solidarity values are just some of the principles guiding this cooperation. Maternal and child mortality, the crisis of human resources in the health sector, poverty related diseases and other issues may be addresssed under this topic.

SPHIP bimonthly newsletter October 2017

Jaap Koot uploaded a new Document | 9 October 2017

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This newsletter of the programme Supporting Public Health Institutes is a compilation of the recent news from four projects in the programme. It has been produced at the occasion of the ECTMIH conference in Antwerp and the European Public Health Conference in Stockholm. Normally, the newsletter is...

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Group: Supporting Public Health Institutes Programme - SPHIP
Historic Milestone Reached in Global Fight Against Mercury Pollution

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 6 October 2017

In a landmark display of international cooperation, more than 160 countries committed to tackling one of the world's greatest chemical health threats at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury. The world's first environmental and health treaty in a...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Factsheet on the Third United Nations Environment Assembly (Nairobi, 4-6 December 2017)

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 3 October 2017

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For the full brochure on the UN Environment Assembly click here .

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Recovering from Surgery in Birao: Awa's Story

Clara Long updated the Information | 29 September 2017

The landlocked Central African Republic (CAR) boasts of natural beauty and is home to some of the most vibrant wildlife in the world. However, years of unrest and armed conflict has taken its toll. In 2012, a previously unstable situation plummeted into civil war. Due to the security situation,...

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Factsheet on the Third United Nations Environment Assembly (Nairobi, 4-6 December 2017)

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 29 September 2017

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For the full brochure on the UN Environment Assembly click here .

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Yemen's cholera epidemic

Ephraim Zagelbaum updated the Information | 19 September 2017

Thousands of people have died from cholera as war-torn Yemen navigates peak season for the spread of the disease. More on this from Aljazeera . http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/09/fuelling-yemen-cholera...

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Group: Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Factsheet on the Third United Nations Environment Assembly (Nairobi, 4-6 December 2017)

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 18 September 2017

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For the full brochure on the UN Environment Assembly click here .

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Factsheet on the Third United Nations Environment Assembly (Nairobi, 4-6 December 2017)

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 15 September 2017

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For the full brochure on the UN Environment Assembly click here .

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Global Report on the Status of Legal Limits on Lead in Paint

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Document | 13 September 2017

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Exposure to lead paint poses significant harmful effects to human health, especially among children. The health effects, which are generally irreversible, can have a lifelong impact. Many countries have enacted controls to address these adverse impacts, but decorative paints containing lead are...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
UN Environment Assembly

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the event | 7 September 2017

04 Dec

From 4 December 2017 to 6 December 2017
in Nairobi (Kenya)

Organised by UN Environment

Third session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) under the overarching theme pollution. Link to the website here . Link to the Background Information Sheet here . About UNEA III The Environment Assembly aims to deliver a number tangible commitments to end the pollution of our air, land,...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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