"NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES"

Football legend Didier Drogba was today announced as the World Health Organization's Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Drogba, from Côte d’Ivoire, will support WHO to promote the Organization’s guidance on the benefits of physical activity and other healthy lifestyles, and highlight the value of sports, particularly for youth. WHO

Young people in Tonga are learning the traditional craft of canoe making to create jobs, tackle obesity and protect their local fishing ecosystems. IFAD

Work-related diseases and injuries were responsible for the deaths of 1.9 million people in 2016, according to the first joint estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour Organization (ILO). WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO)’s Logistics Hub in Dubai has completed its single largest shipment yet, airlifting 85 metric tonnes of life-saving health supplies to Ethiopia on Friday. WHO

Resolutions concerning multidimensional impact of COVID-19 on African countries, pushing back session closing date, among texts adopted by General Assembly.

The imminent closure of the last cross-border aid lifeline to north-west Syria must be postponed beyond the 10 July deadline, UN humanitarians said on Friday, noting that no crossline supplies had reached Idlib from Damascus in nearly a year. UNTV CH

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the winners of the 2nd edition of the Health for All Film Festival at a press conference Thursday. WHO

The UN’s humanitarian coordination wing, OCHA, said on Friday that the Organization is doing its utmost to secure aid access to Ethiopia’s Tigray region, after a deal was struck to reach displaced civilians, following weeks of fighting between federal and regional forces.UNTV CH

The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros said that COVID-19 has preyed on people with non-communicable diseases, and their risk factors are “increasing vulnerability to COVID-19 infection and the likelihood of worse outcomes, including in younger people." WHO

In much of the world, “hunger remains deeply entrenched and is rising”, Secretary-General António Guterres said at the launch of this year’s major UN food security update, which highlights that over the past five years, tens of millions of people have joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished. UNIFEED