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WHO: one in six people worldwide affected by loneliness

One in six people worldwide is affected by loneliness

This content was published on Jun 30, 2025 According to the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO), one in six people worldwide is affected by loneliness.

Taiwanese honor guards hold a Taiwan flag at Liberty Square, amid a surge of domestic COVID-19 cases and the rising Taiwan-China tensions, in Taipei, Taiwan, 23 May 2021.

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Fifty years of hurt: Taiwan struggles for Geneva role

This content was published on Jun 6, 2025 Taiwan hasn't been part of the WHO since 1972. One man is trying to change that.

MMR vaccine. Syringe and vial on a counter. This combined vaccine protects infants from three viral diseases: measles, mumps and rubella.

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One paper, 20 years of damage

This content was published on May 30, 2025 Nearly 30 years ago an academic paper wrongly linked autism to a measles vaccine. The impacts are still being felt today.

Patient safety

Global concern over measles is rising. Should Switzerland worry?

This content was published on May 30, 2025 Measles is making a global comeback. In Switzerland, a crisis is unlikely – but authorities warn a strong vaccination rate remains crucial.

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From pandemics to climate change, can we work together?

This content was published on May 27, 2025 Inside Geneva looks at what collaboration can look like as US pulls out of WHO and climate talks.

A young patient is fitted with an exoskeleton.

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Rare diseases take centre stage at global health summit

This content was published on May 27, 2025 Rare diseases have been recognised as a global health priority for the first time. How could this impact access to life-saving treatment?

Dolores Reyes Fernández, 61, hugs her father, José Reyes Lozano, 87, for the first time in nearly four months as visits resume at the nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 22, 2020.

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Pandemic treaty comes as welcome sign of multilateralism

This content was published on May 16, 2025 Can the pandemic treaty withstand the withdrawal of the United States from the WHO?

Outdoor apparel companies have long relied on PFAS, so-called forever chemicals, to make products water-resistant.

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PFAS regulation: ‘forever chemical’ banned under global treaty

This content was published on May 8, 2025 International negotiations in Geneva have led to a major breakthrough: the addition of a new "forever chemical" to the Stockholm Convention's blacklist

An Ethiopian man carries a USAID donated sack of wheat on his shoulders to be distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, in May 2021.

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Trump’s aid cuts plunge humanitarian sector into existential crisis

This content was published on May 8, 2025 US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has come with sweeping cuts to humanitarian aid.

Information wars

International public media face uncertain future in democracies

This content was published on Apr 25, 2025 More and more Western governments are paring down their funding for international public media, even as authoritarian regimes beef theirs up.

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