"HEALTH PROGRAMMES"

The World Health Organization (WHO) Special Report on Climate Change and Health, launched today, in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, spells out the global health community’s prescription for climate action based on a growing body of research that establishes the many and inseparable links between climate and health. WHO

This event takes stock of the socio-economic and development impact of COVID-19 in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS) and identify opportunities to accelerate progress toward resilient recovery in the most fragile settings.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said Lebanon risks losing the health gains it made over the last decade and stressed that unless urgent action is taken, “Afghanistan faces an imminent humanitarian catastrophe.” WHO

UNICEF Representative Herve Ludovic de Lys, chief of Health Programme, Dick Chamla, and Health Specialist, Mohammad Nafi Kakar, visited malnutrition and pre-term wards at the Ataturk children’s hospital in Kabul on Sunday. UNICEF

Press Conference: Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the US to the UN on the US delegation's priorities and engagements during UN General Assembly High-Level Week.

The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO)Tedros Ghebreyesus said, "last week, the 200 millionth case of COVID-19 was reported to WHO, just six months after the world passed 100 million reported cases.” WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, said there is a tendency for “mixing and matching” vaccine doses and warned that “it will be chaotic in countries if citizens start deciding when and who should be taking a second, third or a fourth dose." WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern about the COVID-19 Delta variant, “the most transmissible of the variants identified so far,” which “has been identified in at least 85 countries and is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations.” WHO

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

Citing COVID-19’s global impact on peace, speakers say Security Council must overcome divisions, address current realities, as General Assembly considers its 2020 report. People living with HIV must be at heart of global efforts to stamp out epidemic by 2030, governments stress, as General Assembly high-level meeting continues.