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Amid the pandemic, the World Health Organisation is also urging governments not to forget measures to curb HIV infections.
According to a new report, more than 1,000 nurses have died from the disease worldwide. They account for around 10 per cent of infections.
The 2020 World Environment Day was held on June 5 and authorities insisted on the loss of biodiversity highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic and its lockdown measures. “There is a huge consensus among the scientific community that the destruction of the environment, the loss of biodiversity and the rise of infectious diseases such as Covid-19 are actually closely related”, FRANCE 24’s Valérie Dekimpe says.
Monday marks World Cancer Day, a chance to take stock of progress in the global fight against the disease.Professor David Khayat, of Paris’s Pierre and Marie Curie University says “the progress has been tremendous” in terms of cancer knowledge and how to fight it since he began his own career 45 years ago and since the inception more recently of World Cancer Day.Khayat provides the example of cancer cases in France. In 2000, he tells France 24, there were 280,000 new cases of cancer and 150,000 cancer deaths. Seventeen years later, in 2017, the number of new cases had grown to 400,000, but the number of deaths remained stable at 150,000. “We are curing more and more patients,” Khayat says.There are 18.1 million new cancer cases around the world every year and one in six deaths – about 9.6 million – are a result of the disease, the World Health Organization said in a report released for World Cancer Day.
In Benin, local communities work to restore forests, as FRANCE 24's Emmanuelle Sodji reports.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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