Liz Cookman
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More than £540m pledged for reproductive healthcare â with UK a key donor (opens the original)
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. More than £540 million has been pledged for reproductive healthcare that could help prevent millions of unintended pregnancies and tens of thousands of maternal deaths, with almost half coming from the UK. Announced at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the funding comes as cuts to international aid threaten access to contraception and lifesaving medicines in s
Thousands flee Yemen as war escalates â leaving Djibouti âoverwhelmedâ (opens the original)
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Thousands of Yemenis displaced by intensified fighting have fled across the Red Sea to Djibouti, with aid agencies âmore than overwhelmedâ by new arrivals amid the fallout from abrupt cuts to international aid. More than 120,000 people have been displaced by a surge in fighting along Yemen's coast in recent weeks, according to the United Nations, with more than 3,200 arri
UN warns DR Congoâs Ebola outbreak still âmassiveâ â and will take months to fight (opens the original)
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The worldâs fastest-growing Ebola outbreak is showing signs of slowing in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but United Nations health officials have warned it is too early to say the epidemic has passed its peak. Julien Harneis, the UNâs special Ebola coordinator, said there had been âareas of progressâ but described the epidemic as still âdeadly and massiveâ. âItâs such a vast epidemic that itâs difficult to talk about one epidemic, but rather many different loc
UK to almost triple funding to tackle DR Congoâs deadly Ebola outbreak (opens the original)
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The UK is almost tripling its funding to tackle the deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), announcing a further £51.8 million as the virus continues to spread rapidly. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCD) minister Kirsty McNeill told MPs on Tuesday that the additional funding would take the UKâs total commitment to the response to £78.7 million. The announcement comes as the outbreak continues to outpace the response, killing 2,950 people since the epide
Deaths of pregnant women double during DR Congo’s fast-growing Ebola outbreak (opens the original)
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Maternal deaths in Ituri province, the epicentre of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s deadliest Ebola epidemic, are surging as the fastest-growing outbreak in history outpaces the health response. In just over three months since the outbreak was declared, deaths among pregnant women have roughly doubled, the United Nations reproductive health agency, or UNFPA, told The Independent, with 63,700 pregnant women still at risk in affected areas. Overall, more than 2,600 people have died during the o
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