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Are you sure you want to share that? Sorting online fact from fiction

Date
Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 4:25 AM
Description
Since the creation of the World Wide Web, we have had access to more information than ever before. However, we are also bombarded with dangerous disinformation. The UN’s Verified campaign has launched an online course to help us decide which is which

Africa faces 470 million COVID-19 vaccine shortfall this year

Date
Thursday, September 16, 2021 - 10:48 AM
Description
Africa needs around 470 million doses to accomplish the global of fully vaccinating 40 per cent of its population by the end of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

African countries commit to ending all forms of polio

Date
Thursday, August 26, 2021 - 9:25 AM
Description
Although the African Region was certified free of wild poliovirus one year ago, after four years without a case, outbreaks of a vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) is spreading throughout communities where too few children have received the polio

A third of Haiti’s children in urgent need of emergency aid: UNICEF

Date
Friday, July 09, 2021 - 11:03 AM
Description
Nearly a third of all children in Haiti – numbering around 1.5 million - are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising violence, insufficient access to clean water, health and nutrition, said the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF on Friday.