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UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security
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A world of news from the world organization.
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For World Cancer Day, UN stresses early diagnosis to reduce mounting deaths
Early diagnosis is the key to reducing the nearly eight million deaths caused by cancer across the globe annually, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, stressing the importance of screening programmes for healthy people to detect the disease promptly for easier treatment.
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UN backs vaccination campaign after yellow fever outbreaks hit Cameroon and Ghana
The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people.
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UN says Somali famine over, but warns action needed to forestall new crisis
The UN declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help people resume normal lives.
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Small Indian hill state aims to improve agricultural livelihoods with UN loan
India is receiving a loan of nearly $90 million from the United Nations to improve agricultural livelihoods in the small north-western state of Uttarakhand, one of the poorest areas in the country.
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New UN initiative aims to harness power of social media to fight global hunger
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching a week-long campaign in which users of the popular online trivia game Freerice can recruit their friends to help bring food to the world's most vulnerable populations.
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Sri Lanka: UN agency funds irrigation improvement projects
The United Nations fund tasked with promoting rural development will provide a $22-million loan to Sri Lanka to finance the improvement of the South Asian country's irrigation infrastructure and crop diversification, as well as projects to expand market opportunities for smallholder farmers.
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UN scales up food assistance for more than 80,000 people in South Sudan
The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it will scale up its assistance to reach 80,000 people affected by the recent escalation of ethnic violence in South Sudan's Jonglei state.
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