The Internet of Things can help achieve the SDGs
The Internet of Things already promises to transform daily life in rich countries. And a new generation of farming and healthcare techniques is improving the quality of life of the world's poorest...
View ArticleCommission earmarks €10 million for Zika virus research
In order to combat the Zika virus, which is spreading rapidly throughout Latin America, the executive wants to allocate €10 million from the EU budget.
View ArticleMSF chief: The way Europe treats refugees is ‘a disgrace’
Joanne Liu, the energetic president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), says that the response to refugees in Greece is "indecent". She contends that refugees should be offered a...
View ArticleScientists prepare for potential Zika virus outbreak in Southern Europe
Researchers from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) are developing tools to monitor the Zika virus, as it is highly likely that it will reach Southern...
View ArticleEU sets up medical corps after Ebola, Zika outbreaks
The EU wants to quickly respond to health emergencies, such as the Ebola and Zika virus outbreaks in the future with a new medical corps, the European Commission said on Monday (15 February).
View ArticleEbola refuses to let go of West Africa
Nine people die have died in West Africa since Guinea was declared free of the Ebola virus and a thousand people are under still under surveillance. EurActiv’s partner El País - Planeta Futuro reports.
View ArticleEU sends new medical corps team to Angola yellow fever outbreak
The EU is to send its new European Medical Corps on its first ever mission – to help tackle the outbreak of yellow fever in the West African state of Angola.
View ArticleEU should lead the final push to eradicate polio
A polio-free world is within reach. With continued support and funding, the EU can help wipe out this devastating disease, writes Stefan Rebmann.
View ArticleProfessor: What the EU got right – and wrong – about the 2015 ebola epidemic
The 2014-15 ebola outbreak in the west African states of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia left 11,000 dead, caused global panic, and saw the EU and member states put up nearly €2bn in financial aid.
View ArticleEU overtakes UK on medical research for developing world
Bill Gates, the US businessman turned philanthropist, is in Brussels on Thursday (16 February) to unveil a new report into medical research and development for the developing world that shows the EU...
View ArticleEU scales up aid to tackle Ebola outbreak in West Africa
The European Commission has pledged an additional €2 million to tackle the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, amid fears that the virus will spread to other parts of the world.
View ArticleEU concerned over Ebola outbreak
EU ministers expressed on Friday (15 August) their concern about the outbreak of Ebola virus disease affecting several countries in West Africa among which are Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.
View ArticleEbola outbreak: First Briton with disease arrives in UK
A plane carrying a British healthcare worker who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone has landed in the UK, the country's Ministry of Defence said Sunday. He was evacuated from the west Africa country on a...
View ArticleEbola spreads ‘exponentially’, economies threatened
Liberia, the country worst hit by West Africa's Ebola epidemic, should see thousands of new cases in coming weeks as the virus spreads exponentially, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday...
View ArticleEU calls for wider response to the Ebola epidemic
The EU will intensify its financial assistance to Western Africa, in order to contribute to the efforts in the fight against the Ebola outbreak. At a special meeting held yesterday (15 September) in...
View ArticleObama sends troops to West Africa to contain Ebola
US President Barack Obama yesterday (16 September) called West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the US role in trying to halt its...
View ArticleEconomic impact of Ebola shrouded in mystery
There is not yet any macroeconomic analysis of Ebola's impact on West Africa, with IMF figures only indicating a modest decrease in growth for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. But NGOs on the ground...
View ArticleStylianides exits confirmation hearing a star
Cypriot Commissioner-designate Christostos Stylianides, assigned the portfolio of Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management by President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker, made an excellent impression at his...
View ArticleStylianides: “Each euro invested in resilience saves €7 in emergency aid”...
In his confirmation hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, Cypriot Commissioner-designate for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christostos Stylianides said on that “investing...
View ArticleScientists predict Ebola will hit Europe in coming weeks
Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75% chance the virus could be imported to France by October 24, and a 50% chance it could hit Britain by that date.
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