"WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO"

UNICEF, WFP and WHO are extremely concerned about the situation in Tigray region where the risk of famine is imminent, unless food, livelihood assistance and other life-saving intervention continue to be scaled, unimpeded access is guaranteed, and hostilities cease. UNTV CH

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said high-income countries have administered almost 44 percent of the world’s COVID-19 vaccine doses, while Low-income countries have administered just 0.4 percent and stressed that “inequitable vaccination is a threat to all nations, not just those with the fewest vaccines." WHO

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Some two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed globally but only 0.5 per cent have reached low-income countries where frontline health workers and the elderly have yet to receive a shot, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday. UNTV CH

The heads of the world’s predominant global financing, health and trade agencies have united to urge government leaders to urgently finance a new $50 billion roadmap to accelerate the equitable distribution of health tools to help end the pandemic that has devastated lives and livelihoods for 18 months and also set the foundations for a truly global recovery, as well as enhanced health security. WHO

WHO’s Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “at the World Health Assembly this week, there has been broad consensus that ensuring equitable access to vaccines is essential for ending the COVID-19 pandemic." WHO

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

If Syria's key players remain 'more invested in conflict management than conflict resolution', fighting could last generations, envoy tells Security Council.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned of “the dangers of a two-speed global response” to COVID-19 and stressed that the pandemic “cannot be beaten one country at a time.” UNIFEED

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the World Health Assembly today (24 May), "Almost 18 months into the defining health crisis of our age, the world remains in a very dangerous situation,” and described the ongoing vaccine crisis as a “scandalous inequity.” WHO