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Opening the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, “To be clear, COVID-19 is still with us, it still kills, it’s still changing, and it still demands our attention, but it no longer represents a public health emergency of international concern.” WHO

New data indicates declining confidence in childhood vaccines of up to 44 percentage points in some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. UNICEF

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, said “the situation in the Republic of Sudan is deeply concerning.” WHO

A World Health Organization committee has reviewed the evidence for four Marburg vaccines. WHO

Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), said that progress on transboundary water cooperation “is badly off track.” UNIFEED

On the occasion on World TB Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is announcing the expanded scope of the WHO Director-General’s (DG) Flagship Initiative on tuberculosis over the period from 2023 to 2027 to support fast-tracking progress towards ending TB and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. WHO

190 million children in 10 African countries are at the highest risk from a convergence of three water-related threats – inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); related diseases; and climate hazards – according to a new UNICEF analysis. UNICEF

From 5-9 March in Doha, Qatar, world leaders will get together at the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries Conference to agree on partnerships and plans to help the world’s most vulnerable countries get back on track and thrive amid ongoing global challenges. UNIFEED

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General said today that COVID-19 remains a global health emergency, even though, as the world enters the fourth year of the pandemic, “there is no doubt we are in a far better situation now than we were a year ago, when the Omicron wave was at its peak.” WHO