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As World AIDS Day approaches, UNAIDS urges governments to empower grassroots communities worldwide to lead the fight to end AIDS. A new report by UNAIDS, Let Communities Lead, shows that AIDS can be ended as a public health threat by 2030, but only if communities on the frontlines get the full support they need from governments and donors. UNAIDS

The World Health Organization (WHO) senior official Michael Ryan told reporters, “we are seeing a complete collapse of the higher-level infrastructure of the Gaza health system,” adding that it is very hard to maintain good data of the injured and deaths in a situation where health systems are collapsing. UNIFEED

A second WHO-led joint UN mission, working in collaboration with the Palestine Red Crescent Society, earlier Sunday evacuated 31 babies from Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to a hospital in southern Gaza. WHO

“I visited the Gaza Strip to meet with children, their families and UNICEF staff. What I saw and heard was devastating. They have endured repeated bombardment, loss and displacement. Inside the Strip, there is nowhere safe for Gaza’s one million children to turn,” the Executive Director of UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Catherine Russell said. UNICEF

Amid the growing and disastrous health situation in Gaza, where more patients, including premature babies, have reportedly died in Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, and where first winter rains have brought flooding into Gaza, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated its urgent call for a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave. UNTV CH

Since 7 October 2023, the escalating crisis in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory has caused large numbers of civilian deaths and injuries. In the Gaza Strip, airstrikes and a lack of medical supplies, food, water and fuel have virtually depleted an already under-resourced health system. WHO

Since 7 October 2023, the escalating crisis in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory has caused large numbers of civilian deaths and injuries. In the Gaza Strip, airstrikes and a lack of medical supplies, food, water and fuel have virtually depleted an already under-resourced health system. WHO

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening. Fuel, food, water and electricity are running out, and the health system is in a state of total collapse. An estimated 50,000 pregnant women are caught up in the conflict, with around 5,500 due to give birth within the next 30 days - around 160 deliveries a day. UNFPA

The World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said that without fuel, the babies in incubators who need that life support “will simply die”, reiterating “safe and sustained access” is needed, or “there will be more suffering and more death” in Gaza. UNIFEED / FILE

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that “where wars rage, women suffer,” and said, “twenty-three years after this Council adopted resolution 1325, women’s participation should be a default, not an afterthought. But that is not the case.” UNIFEED