UN poverty goals on health out of reach, WHO says
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The world is likely to fail to meet the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals related to health, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday at a global forum on health research for poor nations.
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LONDON -- Wealthy countries are falling billions of dollars short of their promises to help fund reproductive health care and efforts to improve the status of women around the world, the United Nations said yesterday.
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The world is meeting targets on improving access to clean drinking water, but falling behind on sanitation goals fixed at a summit four years ago, the United Nations said Thursday.
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Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year, more than any other cause, and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
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After a trying year punctuated by calls for his resignation by U.S. lawmakers, Secretary General Kofi Annan said the United States and the United Nations have to find a way to the put their disputes behind them and move ahead with plans to reform the world body and meet poverty reduction goals.
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One billion people will die of tobacco-related diseases this century unless governments in rich and poor countries alike get serious about preventing smoking, top World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Monday.
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THE HAGUE, Jul 5 (IPS) - A "new partnership" between rich and poor  countries is required if the United Nations goals of reducing  extreme poverty by 2015 are to be realised, according to an  official who helped devise those objectives.
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Despite significant gains in medical science, disparities in public health persist between rich and poor countries, the World Health Organization said in a report released here on Wednesday.
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&quot;While under-nutrition continues to be a key concern, particularly in developing countries, many children in all regions of the world have poor eating habits and are not getting enough exercise,&quot; she added.
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MEXICO CITY -- African countries are facing a health crisis because they lack enough medical personnel to attend to the sick, a top international health official told a summit of government ministers and researchers Thursday.
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The annual report by UNAIDS - the United Nations organization dealing with AIDS â-nd the World Health Organization (WHO), released ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, shows a troubling rise in the prevalence of AIDS around the world.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told African leaders Sunday they were failing to meet targets for reducing poverty and combating killer diseases five years after agreeing to global development goals.
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Goals set a decade ago to cut world population growth and ensure women&#39;s rights could be missed without greater resources and political will, a UN report said on Wednesday.
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Thursday for a stepped up fight against "neglected" diseases afflicting 1 billion people, mainly in poor countries.
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The health of about 2 billion of the world's poor is being damaged because they lack access to clean energy, like electricity, and face exposure to smoke from open fires, scientists said on Thursday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) called on here Tuesday African governments to provide more resources and show political commitment in the fight against maternal and neonatal mortality.
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The gap between rich and poor remains huge, but a survey of global health finds that significantly fewer people in poorer countries say they have had to go without food or health care because they lacked the money to pay for it.