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The Regeneron antibody-drug cocktail – casirivimab and imdevimab – has been added to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of treatments for people with COVID-19, the UN agency said on Friday, before underscoring the need for lower prices and equitable distribution. UNTV CH

On World Hepatitis Day, global health agency Unitaid celebrates progress made against hepatitis C and looks towards 2030 elimination targets. UNITAID / FILE

As G7 leaders meet from 11-13 June in the United Kingdom to discuss the recovery from the pandemic, global health agency Unitaid is calling for increased investment in research and development for treatments for COVID-19. UNITAID

Unitaid’s Executive Director Philippe Duneton warned about the critical need for investment in oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries, which have quadrupled in recent months. UNITAID

Transmitted by the blood-sucking triatomine bug called Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), Chagas disease, a neglected disease, currently affects between 6 and 7 million people worldwide and kills an estimated 10,000 people annually. UNITAID

Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the World TB Day (24 Mar) marks the occasion for the international community to call for more action to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) as a public health burden by 2030. UNITAID

A price reduction of 70 per cent, a much shorter treatment and three times fewer weekly pills are the advantages of a new preventive treatment for latent Tuberculosis (TB) that UNITAID and its partners have started to roll out a few days ahead of World Tuberculosis Day. UNTV CH

COVID-19 has accelerated the global demand for medical oxygen and made the delivery of oxygen supplies more urgent. In Hargeisa General Hospital in Somaliland, oxygen concentrators donated by WHO are making a difference not only for COVID-19 patients but also children with pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses. WHO

With more than half a million COVID-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries estimated to require oxygen treatment every day, an emergency taskforce was launched today in Geneva to secure oxygen supplies and technical support for the worst-affected countries. UNTV CH

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that it has reach an agreement with its partners to make some 120 million COVID-19 rapid tests available to low and middle-income countries.WHO