WHO launches plan to tackle neglected diseases as COVID-19 strains healthcare
Thomson Reuters Foundation The World Health Organization will on Thursday launch a plan to combat 20 diseases that affect the world’s poorest people, seeking to prevent recent progress being erased by the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare systems. Many of the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which range from leprosy to rabies, have been eradicated […]
Global initiative aims to end human rabies deaths by 2030
Thomson Reuters Foundation Human deaths from rabies can be ended by 2030 through the mass immunisation of dogs, along with better healthcare and education, the United Nations said on Thursday at the launch of the world’s largest anti-rabies initiative. Rabies kills about 59,000 people a year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), […]