Hunger, Food Not Bombs and COVID-19

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The coronavirus pandemic is making access to food even more difficult for people everywhere. The UN World Food Program estimates the number of people being pushed to the brink of starvation will double to 265 million. As UN Secretary-General…

Stop the Spread of Neglect

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As the COVID-19 worldwide death toll breaks 250,000, it obscures the even larger number of lives claimed by another virus: HIV. Since the beginning of the year, over 500,000 people have died from HIV/AIDS. One thing the two viruses have in…

WHO cares about your health?

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The Trump administration’s decision to halt US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic has met complete rejection from all experts and organizations working to protect public health and human rights. Obviously,…

Thank You, Translators!

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Our impact is only as strong as our partnerships. Fortunately, our enthusiastic and dedicated network of translation partners help bring our health information to people we otherwise would not reach. When we sent out our English COVID-19…

The Heroes of the COVID-19 Response

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Every year, the World Health Organization selects a specific theme to spread health awareness on World Health Day, April 7. Today, WHO is recognizing the selfless contributions of the nurses and midwives working day and night to protect…

More Trusted Sources of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information

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In addition to Hesperian’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) Fact Sheet, now available in 20 languages, we want to share these COVID-19 resources which also provide easy to use, trustworthy information. We will be updating this blog with more materials,…