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Every day, safe blood helps save the lives of women experiencing childbirth complications, accident victims, cancer patients and people living with chronic diseases. Yet despite decades of progress, access to lifesaving blood remains deeply unequal, ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (IPS) - In Yemen, increasing funding constraints on humanitarian operations have put millions of civilians in dire need of life-saving assistance amid overlapping crises. Acute food insecurity is a persistent issue, as recent ...

NEW YORK, June 10 (IPS) - Martin Luther King Jr. , when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, reminded us of "The fact that most of the time human beings put the truth about the nature and risks of the nuclear war out of their minds because it is too .. ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (IPS) - Over the past few years, the humanitarian crisis in Africa's Sahel region has expanded considerably, largely driven by a surge of violence--particularly in the Central Sahel. Although the crisis has been described by . ...

WASHINGTON DC, June 9 (IPS) - When the world learned that Ebola was spreading across parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, one fact stood out above all others: there was no approved vaccine for the virus responsible.

BRATISLAVA, June 9 (IPS) - As South Africa officially launches the rollout of a groundbreaking HIV prevention drug, civic groups in the country have slammed the plan, saying it will not reach anywhere near enough people.

In Ebola-stricken eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a massive push for early testing and contact tracing is helping to contain the virus, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

The top UN aid official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is in Ituri province - the epicentre of the country's Ebola outbreak - for a three-day assessment visit, as the confirmed case count reaches 515 across three eastern provinces.

CIVICUS discusses the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla on its mission to bring humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza with Musa Roshdy, a humanitarian activist who took part in the flotilla.

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, June 5 (IPS) - "While pressures on public budgets are growing and geopolitical tensions rising, it can be tempting to see environmental finance as optional. It is not," GEF Interim CEO and Chair Claude Gascon told the closing . ...