"HEALTH AID"

Premature babies can now be supported in Ukraine with new oxygen machines that work without electricity. The development of the devices was financed by Unitaid, a Geneva based global health aid agency which is committed to supplying poorer countries with medicines and other health products. The devices are currently being manufactured in Kenya. UNTV CH

As part of Serbia’s COVID-19 response, 101 containers were procured and delivered to health facilities around the country for triage and testing, thus keeping people who may be sick with COVID-19 outside of hospitals and other health facilities in order to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading to health workers and within health facilities. WHO

Nearly one hundred UN peacekeepers in Lebanon – military as well as civilians – donated blood for the victims of the horrific 4 August explosions that devastated a part of Beirut, left hundreds dead and thousands injured. UNIFIL

Nearly USD 825 million are needed for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to assist the world’s most vulnerable communities to face the new coronavirus, according to a revised emergency appeal for the pandemic launched in Geneva today. UNTV CH

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

After declaring the organization's highest grade to emergency, WHO is scaling up its response in Nigeria to assist hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need of health services. More than half of the health facilities in Borno State, the area most severely affected, are not functioning. WHO

Accelerating Iraq Government Programme, National Reconciliation Efforts Critical to Defeating Terrorists, Special Representative Tells Security Council 7443rd Meeting (AM)

Syrian refugees in the Za’atari camp  in neighbouring Jordan now number more than 28 thousand, a number that is climbing daily the UN Refugee Agency  (UNHCR) reported today (20 September). UNHCR

AIDS + MDGs: Delivering results towards our shared commitments

The impact of a major earthquake on the small island of Haiti was devastating. Initial local and international efforts consisted of search and rescue, food and health aid to survivors, and early recovery operations. Many hope the disaster may offer the troubled nation, one of the world’s poorest, a chance for renewal.