The growing gap between the number of vaccines being given in rich countries and those administered through COVAX is becoming “more grotesque every day”, the head of the UN health agency said on Monday.

Notwithstanding that women make up 70 per cent of healthcare workers globally, and have been most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, they are also being “systematically excluded” from decision-making processes aimed at ending the pandemic, including government-run task forces around the world.

An estimated 1.4 million fewer people received necessary care for tuberculosis (TB) during 2020 compared with the previous year, because of COVID-19, the UN health agency said on Monday.

This age group are smart and savvy and require health care services and support in different ways than adults do, and the Foundation will work to ensure that services are accessible on the platforms that are best suited to young people.

Climate change has hit the world’s oceans hard, UN weather experts said on Monday, in a call for lifesaving monitoring and early warning services that were interrupted by COVID-19 to be ramped up again, to protect shipping and coastal communities at risk.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the company has been selected as a 5G network solution provider for NTT DOCOMO, INC., a leading mobile operator in Japan.

Business leaders have long known that they must invest in developing their people in order to thrive in an environment of technological acceleration.

It’s been a long time since developers have hand-coded everything from scratch.

Against the backdrop of an increasingly foggy and fast-paced business operating environment, the difference between captains of industry who have wired their enterprises up to latest-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) and those who have not is becoming progressively stark.

The UN is marking World Water Day on Monday with a global conversation on how people value the lifegiving resource in different parts of the world.