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A Palestinian family stands over the bodies of their twin daughters and their son at a hospital in Rafah on December 12. The children were killed by an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip.
global conflicts

The world is facing a ‘historic confluence’ of humanitarian crises, with children hit first and hardest, warns UNICEF

Gaza, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Pakistan… The list of conflicts and crises has never been longer or more dire. In the Gaza Strip, at least 5,000 children have been killed in just two months, with thousands more left orphaned and over 3,500 women and children still missing under the rubble, according to the U.N.

Dr. Kavita Singh in Oviedo, Spain on October 19, 2023, the day before receiving the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation on behalf of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, which she helps oversee as director of the program’s South Asia office.
Global Health

Dr. Kavita Singh: ‘Climate change is altering patterns for dengue fever and other diseases. Before, we didn’t have as many cases, or as many deaths’

On Friday, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Foundation presented an award to an organization that researches treatments for neglected diseases. The group’s director says that combating these diseases will benefit the entire world, not just the countries that currently suffer from them

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