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Update from the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly – 28 May 2021

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New resolutions on the health and care workforce and strategic directions for nursing and midwifery Decisions on patient safety; health, environment and climate change; chemicals management; coordination of work on noncommunicable diseases Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Wellbeing for All Prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment Protect, safeguard and invest in the health and care workforce The… Read More
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Update from the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly – 29 May 2021

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New resolutions on: Local production of medicines Ending violence against children Addressing social determinants of health   Strengthening local production of medicines and other health technologies to improve access Member State requests for WHO’s support in strengthening local production have been increasing in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic has only served to highlight even more the urgent need for enhancing… Read More
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The Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly closes

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More than 30 resolutions and decisions were adopted at this year’s World Health Assembly in different areas of public health: decisions on diabetes, disabilities, ending violence against children, eye care, HIV, hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, local production of medicines, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, noncommunicable diseases, nursing and midwifery, oral health, social determinants of health and strategic directions for the… Read More
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New US$50 billion health, trade and finance roadmap to end the pandemic and secure a global recovery

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Heads of International Monetary Fund (IMT), World Bank Group (WB), World Health Organization (WHO) and World Trade Organization (WTO) issue extraordinary call for financing actions by government leaders to accelerate end to COVID-19 pandemic. IMF, WB, WHO and WTO principals call for US$50 billion investment to generate US$9 trillion in global economic returns by 2025 and boost manufacturing capacity, supply,… Read More
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WHO warns of ‘two-track pandemic’ as cases decline but vaccine inequity persists

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said unequal distribution of vaccines has allowed the virus to continue spreading, thus increasing odds of a variant emerging that could render these treatments ineffective.  Increasingly, we see a two-track #COVID19 pandemic: many countries still face an extremely dangerous situation, while some of those with the highest vaccination rates… Read More
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Global push needed to ensure ‘clean, affordable and sustainable electricity’ for all

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The seventh Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), SDG7, aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.   However, those nations which remain most off the grid, are set to enter 2030 without meeting this goal unless efforts are significantly scaled up, warns the new study entitled Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report, published by the International… Read More
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UN health agency urges nations to donate 250 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

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“This week, we’ll probably pass the two billion doses – if we have not already passed it…in terms of number of doses of these vaccines, these new COVID vaccines that have actually been developed. And these have been distributed now in over 212 countries,” said Dr Bruce Aylward, Head of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) Hub. Dr. Aylward,… Read More
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Vaccine equity at heart of new $50 billion plan to end pandemic, drive recovery

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The plan seeks to scale-up supplies of vaccines, tests and treatments, thus reducing the “equity gap” in developing countries, the leaders of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group (WBG), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in a joint statement.  Vaccine access key  They warned that unless governments act now, continued waves… Read More
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The COVID-19 pandemic motivates millions of tobacco users to quit, but they need support

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According to the UN health agency, the finding that smokers were more likely to develop severe disease with COVID-19 compared to non-smokers, triggered millions of people to want to quit tobacco. But without adequate support, quitting can be incredibly challenging. On World No Tobacco Day 2021, the agency reminded that the nicotine found in tobacco is highly addictive and creates… Read More
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COVID danger has not passed, States must support pandemic treaty: Tedros

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In closing comments to the WHO’s annual week-long high-level assembly, Tedros said that a potential international treaty will be discussed in a special session of WHO members in November. Although COVID cases and deaths are declining globally, Tedros insisted that the “way out” was through “tailored and consistent” public health measures in combination with equitable vaccination. Vaccination call The WHO… Read More
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