UN Health News

New partnership to boost maternal and newborn health in East and Southern Africa

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 11:03 AM

Some 10,000 health workers will be trained to support mothers and newborns in Africa through a partnership between the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and Laerdal Global Health, the non-profit arm of a Norwegian company that provides innovative training

UN-backed fund to address crisis in global sanitation and hygiene

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 8:55 AM

A UN-backed fund, launched on Tuesday, is set to take on the centuries-old crisis centred around sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health, which now impacts more than four billion people across the world.