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The World Health Organization’s Chief said, “With the weather conditions and ongoing aftershocks, we’re in a race against time to save lives. People need shelter, food, clean water and medical care, for injuries resulting from the earthquake, but also for other health needs.” WHO

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Chief said, "we're all shocked and saddened by the images and reports coming from Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic,” and announced that the “WHO is dispatching three charter flights to both countries with medical supplies including major surgical trauma kits from our logistics hub in Dubai.” WHO

UN Health agency launches the Global Breast Cancer Initiative to tackle the most common cancer with some of the greatest inequities. UNTV CH

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new Global Breast Cancer Initiative Framework providing a roadmap to attain the targets to save 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040. WHO

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

A spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office told reporters, “Two years after the Myanmar military launched a coup against the democratically elected government, the country has sunk deeper than ever into crisis and has undergone a wholesale regression in human rights.” UNTV CH

Five billion people globally remain unprotected from harmful trans fat, a new status report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has found, increasing their risk of heart disease and death. WHO

Under the Rapid Rural Transformation (RRT) initiative, WFP and partners establish solar-powered hubs to provide essential services to the communities in Madagascar, in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner. UNTV CH / WFP

Close to 1 billion people in low- and lower-middle income countries - 1 in 8 of the world’s population –are served by health-care facilities that lack a reliable electricity supply, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll). WHO

Speaking to reporters today in New York, Japan’s Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa said, “The Security Council needs to be enlarged in both the permanent and non-permanent seats. And this is especially true for Africa.” UNIFEED