"EPIDEMICS"

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the “two-track pandemic” is now taking its toll on some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people and stressed that "vaccines donated next year will be far too late for those who are dying today, or being infected today, or at risk today.” WHO

Current battle to end COVID-19 pandemic must not cost war against HIV/AIDS, speakers warn General Assembly on day three of high-level meeting.

Day 3 of the High-Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV/AIDS to undertake a comprehensive review of the progress on the commitments made in the 2016 Political Declaration towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, and how the response, in its social, economic and political dimensions, continues to contribute to progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the global health goal.

Day 2 of the High-Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV/AIDS to undertake a comprehensive review of the progress on the commitments made in the 2016 Political Declaration towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, and how the response, in its social, economic and political dimensions, continues to contribute to progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the global health goal.

Governments must embrace rights-based focus on those most at risk of HIV/AIDS, General Assembly speakers stress, amid differences over ‘key’ populations.

World leaders in General Assembly adopt political declaration pledging urgent, transformative action to stop global AIDS epidemic by 2030.

World leaders in General Assembly adopt political declaration pledging urgent, transformative action to stop global AIDS epidemic by 2030.

On the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS, UNAIDS released a new report outlining the latest data and trends in the HIV pandemic. Currently, 37.6 million people globally were living with HIV in 2020 and 1.5 million became newly infected with HIV last year. A record 27.4 million people were accessing antiretroviral therapy, but 690,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2020. UNAIDS

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

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