Important, Yet Overlooked: Maternity Waiting Homes in Eritrea

Maternity Waiting Homes are residential facilities where women living remotely stays before giving birth at health facilities. BY FIKREJESUS AMHAZION (Ph.D) | SHABAIT Eritrea is one of the few countries that entered the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) period having achieved most of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to health. Since the […]

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Eritrea, UN Launch New $720m Development Cooperation Framework

A new era of partnership has been forged between Eritrea and the UN with the launch of a new $720m UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for the 2022 – 2026 period. BY TESFANEWS The Government of Eritrea and the United Nations launched a new $720m Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (SDCF) for the period between 2022 […]

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UN Regional Directors Visiting Eritrea

A delegation of UN Regional Directors on a five-day mission to Eritrea as the government and UN set to launch the new UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2022 – 2026) BY UN ERITREA (PRESS RELEASE) The high-level mission to Eritrea, led by the UN Development Coordination Office’s Regional Directors for Africa, includes five other Regional […]

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Child Mortality: Great Progress, Yet Much Left to Be Done

BY FIKREJESUS AMHAZION (PH.D) Last week, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), which includes members from UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division, released an important new study on levels and trends in child mortality around the world.

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HIV/AIDS: Threat to Society and Security

“HIV/AIDS is “an insidious and relentless foe, more destructive than any army, any conflict, and any weapon of mass destruction” – Colin Powel BY SIMON WELDEMICHAEL Throughout history, there have been many devastating pandemics and disasters around the globe. While humanity has experienced great mortality through wars and pandemics, few things have inflicted death and […]

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