Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced at the 38th Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit on Oct. 26 that Singapore will contribute S$7.9 million ($5.9 million) worth of medical supplies to an ASEAN stockpile. The ASEAN Regional Reserve of Medical Supplies …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has started shipping much-needed COVID-19 medical supplies into North Korea, a country that has not declared any COVID-19 infections. Edwin Salvador, WHO’s representative to North Korea, said that supplies such as emergency health kits and …
An independent commission said that 83 aid workers, along with some World Health Organization (WHO) staff, were involved in sexual exploitation cases during an Ebola breakout in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, September 28. The commission discovered that …
The White House said that the United States would start to ship more than two million Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine doses to Kenya and Ghana on Thursday. It said that the delivery was through the COVAX global distribution program. The doses …
A senior regional World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday, August 24, that the organization only has enough supplies in Afghanistan to last for a week after medical equipment deliveries were blocked by Kabul airport restrictions. The United Nations …
Australia has taken 500,000 Pfizer vaccine doses from a scheme to ensure that poorer countries have fair and equal access to vaccines, even though vaccines are still in short supply in low and middle-income countries. In June, the Australian government …
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has permanently closed its hospital in the Martissant Neighborhood at Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince due to rampant gang violence. “Unable to guarantee the safety of its staff and patients, and wanting to draw attention to the unbearable …
The Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended its operations in El Salvador following an attack by an armed group on one of its teams, over the weekend. The organization said, “MSF activities will be suspended until the causes of this …