"ADOLESCENTS"

Almost 75 percent of Cubans voted yesterday in a referendum to decide on changes which address the diversity and plurality of the Cuban families, promote affection and solidarity as key social values and strengthen the protection of rights for children, adolescents, victims of violence, the elderly, people with disabilities, LGTBQI +, and other vulnerable groups, a United Nations spokesperson said. UNIFEED

Speaking at the Transforming Education Summit, Executive Director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell said, “it's absolutely clear that children, especially the most marginalized children, that’s girls, that’s children with disabilities, children living in humanitarian crises, are facing a true crisis in education.” UNIFEED

Launching the Education Cannot Wait’s (ECW) new Annual Results Report, Director Yasmine Sherif told journalists in New York that there are 78.2 million children in conflict affected areas “that don’t even go to school,” while another 190 million receive some education “but can’t read and write, they can’t do math.” UNIFEED

Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, briefs reporters on ECW’s new Annual Results Report, which highlights results achieved for crisis-affected girls and boys, and ECW’s #222MillionDreams campaign.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

To reduce the spread of HIV, a drop-in clinic in Dakar offers free opioid substitution to people who inject drugs. UNAIDS

A new agreement will allow for generic production of first and only long-acting injectable HIV prevention in 90 countries where the majority of new HIV infections occur. UNITAID

A new report, In Danger, is being launched ahead of the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada. The report shows that globally the number of new infections dropped only 3.6 percent between 2020 and 2021, the smallest annual decline in new HIV infections since 2016. UNAIDS

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

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