"HEALTH CARE"

The head of WHO Smallpox Secretariat Dr Rosamund Lewis said, “monkeypox is really a disease of close contact. And so the risk to the general public remains very low. However, direct contact with the person who may be infected or who has a confirmed case of monkeypox means that the risk is obviously higher.” WHO

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) told health ministers on that although reported COVID-19 cases and deaths have declined significantly, it is not time yet for any country to lower its guard. WHO

The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has now crossed the staggering milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts. UNHCR

The President of the General Assembly and the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) urged the international community to not forget to protect migrants in a post-pandemic world. UNIFEED

More than 600,000 Ukrainian refugees arrived in Germany since the war broke out. Among them many people living with HIV, mostly women. UNAIDS estimates that 260,000 Ukrainians live with HIV. Up to 30,000 fled their country since the start of the war and need HIV treatment. UNAIDS

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

A newly opened health center provides essential health services in Abu Gaw, North Darfur, for the first time since the village’s previous health facility was destroyed and the community fled during the war in 2004. WHO

Globally, reported cases and deaths from COVID-19 are continuing to decline, with reported weekly deaths at their lowest since March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday. WHO

In Ukraine on Tuesday, UN humanitarians began to help the first evacuees arriving from Mariupol’s devastated Azovstal steel works, more than two months since Russia’s invasion began, and said that they would do everything possible to assist those still trapped. OCHA

UN humanitarians said on Tuesday that they were standing ready to help receive a group of evacuees from the heavily damaged Azovstal steelworks complex in the embattled Ukrainian city of Mariupol, more than two months since Russia’s invasion of its neighbour. UNTV CH