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.

Renewed international commitment to combat the global threat posed from mercury pollution

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 3 October 2014

High-level Special Event - “The Minamata Convention on Mercury: Towards its early entry into force and effective implementation” N ew York, 24 September 2014 – Twenty-two countries have taken major steps to address the emissions and releases of one of the most notorious heavy metals – mercury. A...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Living Planet Report 2014

Emilie Van der Henst uploaded a new Document | 30 September 2014

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A continuously rising demand for natural resources and increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere by a growing population are putting tremendous pressures on our planet’s biodiversity, and are threatening our future security, health and well-being, reveals the 2014 edition of WWF’s Living Planet...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Few Women In War-Torn Lands Have Access To Contraceptives

Sarah Simpson updated the Document | 30 September 2014

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This article from the ‘ Medical News Today’, 21 Jul 2011 quotes a new study on the alarming gap between the desire of women in war-torn areas to limit their childbearing and the availability of resources and knowledge to enable them to do so. The study from Dr. McGinn and her co-authors from the...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Fever Pitch: The Fight Against the Long-Term Effects of Child Hunger

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 26 September 2014

Eric Turyasingura chases after a ball made from plastic bags outside his mud-brick home in the mountains of southern Uganda. Yelling in his tribal tongue, Nkore, “Arsenal with the ball! Arsenal with the ball!” he jostles with his younger brothers for possession. The fame of the English soccer club...

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Renewed international commitment to combat the global threat posed from mercury pollution

Alexa Froger posted Information | 26 September 2014

High-level Special Event - “The Minamata Convention on Mercury: Towards its early entry into force and effective implementation” N ew York, 24 September 2014 – Twenty-two countries have taken major steps to address the emissions and releases of one of the most notorious heavy metals – mercury. A...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Video: EU Mobile Lab in action against Ebola in Guinea

Vincent Chasteloux created a new WIKI page | 24 September 2014

This video produced in August 2014 looks at the coordinated response of WHO and partners to the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Guinea and neighbouring countries. In this case, WHO resorted to the EU Mobile Lab in Guinea - financed by EuropeAid - to perform diagnostics on blood samples to know...

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Project: EU Mobile Labs
Video: Ebola Outbreak - EC response

Vincent Chasteloux created a new WIKI page | 24 September 2014

An outbreak of the Ebola virus has claimed hundreds of human lives since February 2014. In this video Adriaan van der Meer, the Head of Unit B5 (Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace, Nuclear Safety) , describes what steps the European Commission is taking in the short and medium term to...

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Project: EU Mobile Labs
ODI report on climate finance

Michael Schneider posted Information | 23 September 2014

Rich countries have in fact done too little to put in place at sufficient scale either the financing or the delivery mechanisms needed to strengthen the resilience and enhance the adaptation capabilities of vulnerable people... read more: http://www.odi.org/publications/8517-fair-share-climate-...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
REPORT: IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report – What’s in it for Small Island Developing States?

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 5 September 2014

CDKN Report IPCC SIDS From CDKN website: " Elizabeth Carabine of Overseas Development Institute and Mairi Dupar of CDKN introduce the latest in the series of guides to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, which looks at the findings for Small Island Developing States. The Intergovernmental Panel on...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
IPCC-AR5-Whats-in-it-for-SIDS

Laura Giappichelli uploaded a new Document | 5 September 2014

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

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