"HEALTH SERVICES"

Unitaid warns that inadequate access keeps cervical cancer prevention out of reach for millions. UNITAID

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

Across Europe and Central Asia, vulnerable populations and health workers face a triple threat — influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and COVID-19. WHO

The number of reported disease outbreaks and climate-related health emergencies in the greater Horn Africa have reached their highest-ever level this century, deepening a health crisis in a region where 47 million people are already facing acute hunger. WHO

United Nations agencies are calling for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable children in the 15 countries hardest hit by an unprecedented food and nutrition crisis. WHO

According to a new UN report, a child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021. UNICEF

Briefing reporters today, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan said that “humanitarian needs are absolutely enormous” and the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan should be “absolutely preserved”. UNIFEED

WHO’s Director-General said that 2022 has been another very challenging year, “the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic; a global outbreak of mpox; an Ebola outbreak in Uganda; wars in Ethiopia and Ukraine; cholera outbreaks in multiple countries; drought and flooding in the greater Horn of Africa and the Sahel; flooding in Pakistan; and numerous other health emergencies.” WHO

Unanimously adopting Resolution 2668 (2022), Security Council highlights importance of mental health services for peace operations personnel.

To help vulnerable farmers get through the worst drought in forty years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has so far supported more than 138 300 households (comprising 691 500 people) in just the Somali region of Ethiopia with life-sustaining supplies and by the end of 2022 will have assisted a total of 1.5 million households in need (7.5 million people) across the entire country. FAO