"MEDICAL SCIENCES"

The Directors-General of UNESCO and WHO and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued a joint appeal reaffirming the fundamental right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, and advocating for open, inclusive and collaborative science. UNIFEED

Thirty countries and multiple international partners and institutions have signed up to support the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) an initiative aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other health technologies to fight COVID-19 accessible to all. WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) is holding the first meeting of its Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing. WHO

Promoting Innovation and Access to Health Technologies in the Context of Agenda 2030 - The World Health Organization (WHO)

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) officers organised a blood donation drive in support of victims of the recent terror attack in Mogadishu. AMISOM

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that “civilians continue to bear the brunt of conflict around the world” and that “suffering is pushed to unbearable limits when civilians are deprived of food and healthcare in sieges that can last months, or in some cases, years.” UNIFEED

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

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

New guidance from the World Health Organization aims to help countries better prevent and control cervical cancer. The disease is one of the world’s deadliest – but most easily preventable – forms of cancer for women, responsible for more than 270,000 deaths annually, 85 percent of which occur in developing countries. WHO / FILE

A UN Spokesperson said the Secretary-General is concerned by the recent restrictions put in place in several countries and localities applying to people who have traveled to the main Ebola-affected countries, adding in Ban Ki-moon “believes that these restrictions have put particular pressure on health care workers and those who have been on the front-line of the Ebola response.” UNIFEED-UNTV