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Governments are being urged to finance a new $50 billion roadmap to end the COVID-19 pandemic and drive a fast recovery, announced on Tuesday by the heads of the world’s predominant global financing, health and trade agencies.

The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is progressing at “two alarmingly different speeds”, UN agency leaders said in a statement on Friday, noting that less than two per cent of adults are fully vaccinated in most low-income countries compared to

With the number of new COVID-19 cases nearly doubling over the past two months, approaching the highest infection rate the world has seen during the pandemic, the unequal distribution of vaccines is not only a moral outrage, but economically and

Early laboratory data on the effectiveness of existing vaccines against the Omicron COVID-19 variant is useful, but it is still unclear how effective these will be in treating severely sick patients, a UN health agency panel said on Thursday.

Although COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline globally for a second consecutive week, the UN health agency chief said on Monday that “a huge disconnect” is mounting between some highly vaccinated countries, which see the pandemic as largely

At the start of World Immunization Week , the United Nations on Tuesday said that while vaccines are protecting more children than ever, more countries need to make immunization a priority, because more than one million children still die every year

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 79, Issue 12, Page 4791-4803, December 2023.

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1176-1185, April 2022.

Journal of Research in Nursing, Volume 28, Issue 5, Page 324-334, August 2023. Background:Intercultural communication is one of the most important competencies of nurses that enhances the health-care process and increases the quality of care in

Nursing homes (NHs) are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 introduction, spread, and resultant morbidity and mortality.1,2 Pandemic policies that restricted visitation meant that NH staff were the likely source for bringing COVID-19 from the