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Despite progress in recent years, population groups in Bulgaria who are most vulnerable to HIV infection are not aware of their HIV status and are reluctant to seek testing at health institutions due to fear of potential stigma. WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are working with a South African consortium comprising Biovac, Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, a network of universities and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish its first COVID mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub. 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

Effective and binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide whose health is jeopardized by the informal processing of discarded electrical or electronic devices according to a new report from the World Health Organization named "Children and Digital Dumpsites." UNIFEED

WHO’s Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, "Globally, the number of new cases of COVID-19 reported to WHO has now declined for seven weeks in a row, which is the longest sequence of weekly declines during the pandemic so far. While weekly cases are at their lowest since February, deaths are not falling as quickly.” WHO

UNICEF, WFP and WHO are extremely concerned about the situation in Tigray region where the risk of famine is imminent, unless food, livelihood assistance and other life-saving intervention continue to be scaled, unimpeded access is guaranteed, and hostilities cease. UNTV CH

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said high-income countries have administered almost 44 percent of the world’s COVID-19 vaccine doses, while Low-income countries have administered just 0.4 percent and stressed that “inequitable vaccination is a threat to all nations, not just those with the fewest vaccines." WHO

Some two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed globally but only 0.5 per cent have reached low-income countries where frontline health workers and the elderly have yet to receive a shot, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday. UNTV CH

The heads of the world’s predominant global financing, health and trade agencies have united to urge government leaders to urgently finance a new $50 billion roadmap to accelerate the equitable distribution of health tools to help end the pandemic that has devastated lives and livelihoods for 18 months and also set the foundations for a truly global recovery, as well as enhanced health security. WHO

WHO’s Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “at the World Health Assembly this week, there has been broad consensus that ensuring equitable access to vaccines is essential for ending the COVID-19 pandemic." WHO