New advocacy brief highlights serious consequences of social isolation and loneliness on the health of older people, calls for greater political priority to the issue
NTDs: sustainably financed, standardized global monitoring and evaluation – critical to achieve 2030 road map targets
HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Rt Hon. Helen Clark brief Member States at the United Nations General Assembly on pandemic response
Elevating political leadership for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Meeting with the UN General Assembly
INFOSAN Quarterly Summary, 2021 #2
“Hepatitis can’t wait” - WHO commemorates World Hepatitis Day 2021
Raising awareness of misinformation among children in Poland
Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems
WHO reports progress in the fight against tobacco epidemic
WHO launches updated manual to ensure high quality testing of human semen in clinical and research settings
The WHO and Angry Birds Friends encourage communities to stay active during COVID-19
Statement of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) COVID-19 subcommittee on reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) following adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccines
Governments commit to accelerate action to improve access to eye care services
First World #DrowningPrevention Day calls for accelerated action to prevent drowning, offers strategies to save lives
Together to #ENDviolence: Leaders' Statement. Six game-changing actions to End Violence Against Children
Vaccine inequity undermining global economic recovery
International Paralympic Committee, World Health Organization sign memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the promotion of diversity and equity in health and sports
New report reveals stark inequalities in access to HIV prevention and treatment services for children—partners call for urgent action
Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and deaths of caregivers: a modelling study
Persons with disabilities tell their stories
Opportunities to help safeguard sexual and reproductive health and rights in emergencies
Putting people at the heart of PRSEAH work
UN human rights experts urge countries to increase efforts to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, and end inappropriate marketing of breast-milk substitutes
World leaders and experts call for significant reduction in the use of antimicrobial drugs in global food systems
More than 700 million people with untreated hypertension
Working with religious leaders to eliminate cervical cancer in Nigeria
Call for experts to join Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens
Statement of the Twenty-Ninth Polio IHR Emergency Committee
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) on Afghanistan
What’s needed to improve safety and quality of abortion care?
Bucharest, Cairo, Córdoba, Dublin, Greater Manchester, and Warsaw Join Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Partnership for Healthy Cities
Social Listening: Finding the Signal Through the Noise
New WHO Publication: Infodemic Signal Detection During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joint Statement from Unitaid and the World Health Organization (on behalf of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator) regarding availability of tocilizumab
Cote d’Ivoire starts Ebola vaccination of frontline workers
Documentary: Yellow fever preventive mass vaccination campaign, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2021
ACT-Accelerator launches urgent US$ 7.7 billion appeal to stem surge of dangerous variants and save lives everywhere
Medical Product Alert N°5/2021: Falsified COVISHIELD vaccine (Update)
Post COVID-19 condition: WHO supports standardization of clinical data collection and reporting
Neglected tropical diseases: enhancing safe treatment for more than 1 billion people annually
