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

According to a new report by the International Labour Organization, recovery in youth employment is still lagging, which confirms that the COVID-19 pandemic has hurt young people more than any other age group. ILO

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas met refugee families in Poland who had fled the war in Ukraine and called for more support for refugee children. UNICEF

Security, peace, state-building, and drought were among the issues covered on Sunday by the UN Special Representative for Somalia on his visit to the country’s South West State. UNSOM

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

Los Angeles Lakers Power Forward and former refugee Wenyen Gabriel is in South Sudan this week, visiting his homeland for the first time since being resettled to the US at a young age. UNHCR

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

The monkeypox outbreak which was declared by the Director-General of the World Health’s Organization’s (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on 23 July as a Global Health Emergency, could be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups, according to WHO’s monkeypox expert. UNTV CH

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