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Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 25 May 2023

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Progress and challenges in women’s, children’s and adolescent health The World Health Assembly delegates in Committee A discussed progress against the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent Health (2016-2030). During the discussion, which took place over two days, drawing comments from a high number of Member States, the delegates strongly reiterated their commitment to the Strategy as a priority for… Read More
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Guterres: ‘We can turn the tide’ towards ending colonialism

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“Our shared goal is to give greater priority to the decolonization agenda and spur accelerated action,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Special Committee on Decolonization, or C-24, regional seminar. Established by the General Assembly in 1961, the Committee is mandated to examine the application of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Since the… Read More
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World must be ready to respond to next pandemic: WHO chief

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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was delivering his report to the 76th World Health Assembly, the UN agency’s decision-making body, which is meeting this week.  Threat still remains  “The end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency is not the end of COVID-19 as a global health threat,” Tedros told Member States.  “The threat of another variant emerging that causes… Read More
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G7 nations, ‘central to climate action’ says Guterres, calling for global reset

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The G7, which consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, together with the European Union, is meeting in the city where the first atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, a place which Secretary-General António Guterres described, as a “testament to the human spirit”. “Whenever I visit, I am inspired by the courage and resilience of the… Read More
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Progress on human health ‘in peril’, warns UN chief

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Secretary-General António Guterres was addressing the annual opening of the World Health Assembly, the decision making body of the WHO, and said that the agency was born out of a spirit of cooperation, leading to dramatic improvements in human health. “Global life expectancy – up over 50 percent; Infant mortality – down sixty percent in 30 years; smallpox – eradicated;… Read More
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WHO Director-General announces Global Health Leaders Awards

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WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will present two lifetime achievement awards to recognize outstanding contributions to advancing global health during the high-level opening session of the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly. The Director-General’s Global Leaders Awards, which were established in 2019, will go to Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum and Peter Piot. Both recipients are distinguished scientists and public health leaders who were… Read More
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Urgent action needed to tackle stalled progress on health-related Sustainable Development Goals

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WHO is releasing the 2023 edition of its annual World Health Statistics report with new figures on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and the latest statistics on progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report with data up to 2022 underscores a stagnation of health progress on key health indicators in recent years compared with trends seen during… Read More
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Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly to focus on “saving lives, driving health for all” as WHO turns 75

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As the world faces ongoing health and humanitarian emergencies, the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly will focus on driving forward health for all. This year’s session of the World Health Assembly will determine the immediate and longer-term future of WHO, starting with the program budget for the next two years, key decisions about the sustainable financing of the Organization and changes… Read More
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WHO launches global network to detect and prevent infectious disease threats

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WHO and partners are launching a global network to help protect people from infectious disease threats through the power of pathogen genomics. The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) will provide a platform to connect countries and regions, improving systems for collecting and analyzing samples, using these data to drive public health decision-making, and sharing that information more broadly. Pathogen genomics… Read More
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One billion people in 43 countries face cholera risk, amid ‘bleak’ outlook

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In a new alert, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that more countries now face outbreaks, increasing numbers of cases are being reported and the outcome for patients is worse than 10 years ago. Killing the poor in plain sight “The pandemic is killing the poor right in front of us,” said Jérôme Pfaffmann Zambruni, Head of… Read More
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