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Africa: Countries Must Urgently Step Up to Transform their HIV Responses Amid An International Funding Crisis That Risks Millions of Lives

eriinfo.com1 year ago09 mins

GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG – UNAIDS today launched its 2025 Global AIDS Update, AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform, which shows that a historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress unless countries can make radical shifts to HIV programming and funding. The report highlights the impact that the sudden, large-scale funding cuts from international donors are…

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Africa: HIV/Aids Funding Crisis Risks Reversing Decades of Global Progress

eriinfo.com1 year ago010 mins

United Nations — UNAIDS called the funding crisis a ticking time bomb, saying the impact of the US cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could result in 4 million unnecessary AIDS-related deaths by 2029. A historic withdrawal of global HIV/AIDS funding threatens to derail decades of hard-won progress in the fight…

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Africa: AU Urges Action to Tackle Africa’s Employment Crisis

eriinfo.com1 year ago03 mins

ADDIS ABABA The African Union (AU) has sounded the alarm over the continent’s persistent youth unemployment crisis and is calling for urgent, bold action to address the challenge through industrialization, innovation, and regional integration. The Third African Job Creation Forum, jointly organized by the African Union, the Government of Ethiopia and the African Continental Free…

Turkiye’s Izmir, Hatay and Syria’s Latakia regions affected by wildfires | Climate Crisis News

eriinfo.com1 year ago07 mins

A forestry worker injured in a wildfire in the western Turkish province of Izmir has died from his injuries, raising the death toll in recent days from the fires to three, as emergency crews also continued to battle a blaze in a province bordering Syria. Turkiye sent two firefighting aircraft to help battle wildfires in…

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Africa: Experts Call for Greener Cities As Climate Change Fuels Health Crisis in Africa

eriinfo.com1 year ago05 mins

As climate change continues to exacerbate health inequalities across Africa, experts are now calling for cities to integrate more green infrastructure to cushion urban populations from its dire consequences. Speaking during a cross-border media café on the climate-health crisis in Africa, health and environmental experts emphasised that increasing urban temperatures, fuelled by unsustainable development, are…

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Africa: When Life-Saving Treatment Disappears – the Coming Crisis in Child Malnutrition

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New York — On July 1st, USAID officially shuts down and transfers operations to the U.S. State Department. Amid growing uncertainty about the future of U.S. foreign assistance structures and funding, supply chains that deliver life-saving treatment to malnourished children worldwide have broken down, triggering a global nutrition crisis. We are witnessing the dismantling of…

Africa: UN Drug Office Warns That Global Drug Crisis Will Intensify

eriinfo.com1 year ago09 mins

United Nations — Since 1989, the United Nations (UN) has recognized June 26 as the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in an effort to raise awareness around the global drug problem and foster a more compassionate world, free of drug abuse. Through this year’s campaign, “Break the Cycle. #StopOrganizedCrime”, the UN underscores…

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Africa: New UN Report Charts Path Out of Debt Crisis Threatening Global Development

eriinfo.com1 year ago04 mins

A decade after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development is facing serious headwinds – including what UN officials describe as a “silent crisis” of surging debt service payments in low-income countries. On Friday, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed launched a new report, Confronting the Debt Crisis: 11 Actions to Unlock Sustainable Financing. She…

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Southern Africa: Report Exposes Hidden Crisis in Southern Africa’s Public Health Sector

eriinfo.com1 year ago04 mins

A new report released by WomenLift Health lays bare a critical but often overlooked barrier to resilient health systems in Southern Africa: a persistent leadership gap for women in the public health sector, despite decades of progressive gender equality policies. Based on a comprehensive stakeholder analysis across ten countries including Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi,…

Africa: Donkey Skin Demand Fuels Theft, Livelihood Crisis in Kenya, Africa – Report

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Nairobi — The rise in global demand for donkey skin used to manufacture ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine made from donkey skin, has led to widespread donkey theft and sharp drops in household income across the African continent, a new report by The Donkey Sanctuary has revealed. Titled ‘Stolen Donkeys, Stolen Futures’, the study indicates…