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New York, Oct 10 (JEN) Declaring that the world has never seen anything like current Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa, senior United Nations officials on Friday warned that the virus is “far ahead” of the global response as it is morphing from a local to an international crisis requiring all countries to scale up efforts and financial commitments to bring an end to the scourge. more
On World Mental Health Day, Ban calls for improved care for schizophrenia

New York, Oct 10 (JEN) Suffering from schizophrenia should not have to mean enduring “a life sentence of isolation and poor physical health,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday ...

Ebola crisis ‘permeates every aspect of people’s lives’ in Guinea, UN warns

New York, Oct 10 (JEN) Urgent support is needed to avert an “economic meltdown” in Guinea, where the Ebola crisis is destroying lives, jobs and essential services, leaving exports of fru ...

Ban urges international community to escalate Ebola response amid worsening outbreak

New York, Oct 10 (JEN) The international community must “step up” its response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa before it gets much worse, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moo ...

India's first ever Mental Health Policy unveiled

New Delhi, Oct 10 (JEN) Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday launched India’s first Mental Health Policy, saying that universal access to mental health care is a specific goal of ...

Ebola: UN agency launches initiative to tackle growing food security threat in West Africa

New York, Oct 9 (JEN) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday is launching a programme that will assist 90,000 vulnerable households in Guinea, Liberia and S ...

UN budget committee approves funding for UN Ebola response mission

New York, Oct 8 (JEN) The United Nations committee that deals with administrative and budgetary issues on Tuesday adopted a resolution allocating funding for the newly established UN Missi ...

Wreckage found near Haiti too recent to be Columbus's Santa Maria-UN

New York, Oct 7 (JEN): A shipwreck found off northern Haiti could not be the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus's first crossing of the Atlantic, the United Nations cultural a ...

Ebola outbreak 'running' ahead of world's response, UN warns as funding lags

New York, Oct 4 (JEN) As the head of the United Nations mission working to stop the Ebola outbreak continued his visit to hard-hit countries in West Africa on Friday, the world body’s huma ...

Ebola: UN mission readies to start work as virus death toll surpasses 3,000

New York, Sept 27 (JEN) The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said it is intensifying its cooperation with a wide range of partners trying to accelerate work on experi ...