Ahead of World AIDS Day, the latest HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report 2024, released by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), shows that since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s, over 2.6 million people have been diagnosed with HIV in the WHO European Region, […]
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Higher life expectancy at birth for women in all EU regions
In 2022, life expectancy at birth in the EU for women (83.3 years) was 5.4 years higher than for men (77.9 years). This gender gap in favour of women persisted in all of the regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2) for which data are available. Life expectancy at birth for women peaked in […]
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EU signs first HERA-Invest agreement to boost innovation in health and health emergency preparedness
The Commission, through its Health Emergency Response and Preparedness Authority (HERA) and the European Investment Bank, has today signed a €20 million agreement with the French biopharmaceutical company Fabentech. The agreement will allow the company to develop and deploy its broad-spectrum medicines to combat biological threats to public health. The threat analysis conducted by HERA […]
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Commission recommends stronger measures on smoke-free environments to better protect public health
Today, the Commission has recommended to better protect people from the effects of second-hand smoke and aerosols through the revision of the Council Recommendation on smoke-free environments. The new initiative recommends that Member States extend smoke-free environment policies to key outdoor areas, to better protect people in the EU, particularly children and young people. These areas include outdoor recreational areas where children are likely […]
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EU and Canada launch Health Policy Dialogue to advance Health Priorities
Today, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, and Canada’s Minister of Health, the Honourable Mark Holland, held a virtual meeting to launch the EU-Canada Health Policy Dialogue under the EU-Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement. The Health Policy Dialogue, focused on cooperation across three priority areas: antimicrobial resistance, health security (including climate-related health risks), and non-communicable diseases (including […]
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La primera entrega de dosis de vacunas contra la mpox por parte de la Comisión llega hoy a la República Democrática del Congo
Hoy llegarán a la República Democrática del Congo (RDC) casi 100 000 dosis de vacunas contra la mpox (antes conocida como viruela del mono). Se trata de la primera entrega de la vacuna al país, y se espera una segunda entrega de unas 100 000 vacunas en los próximos días. Estas vacunas forman parte de las 215 000 dosis de la vacuna MVA-BN® que la […]
Read MoreThe Commission’s first delivery of mpox vaccine doses arrives today in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Nearly 100 000 doses of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) vaccine will arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) today. This is the first delivery of the vaccine to the country, and a second delivery of about 100,000 vaccines is expected in the coming days. These vaccines are part of the 215,000 doses of […]
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Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza
The EU urges immediate humanitarian pauses to enable the vaccination of all children in Gaza against the poliovirus. The Gaza Strip has been polio-free for the last 25 years. It is alarming that poliovirus was detected and that the first case was confirmed there again in July affecting children. An epidemic among a population already […]
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Eurostat: Almost 1 out of 10 in the EU could not afford proper meal
In 2023, 9.5% of the EU population were unable to afford a meal containing meat, fish or a vegetarian equivalent every second day, 1.2 percentage points (pp) higher compared with 2022 (8.3%). Moreover, focusing on people at risk of poverty in 2023 the share at the EU level was 22.3%, indicating a 2.6 pp […]
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