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Statement from the first ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council meeting

We acknowledge the urgency of catalysing a step-change in political support and financing for the ACT- Accelerator in order to enable it to deliver on its mission of accelerating the discovery and deployment of new COVID-19 tools to all people, everywhere.

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Regions: Norway , South Africa

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health
Coronavirus Global Response: Access to COVID-19 Tools-Accelerator Facilitation Council holds inaugural meeting

Today Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, and Dr Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, co-hosted the inaugural meeting of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation Council.

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Regions: Canada , China, France , Italy , Norway , Rwanda , South Africa , United Kingdom , Uzbekistan

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health
More than 3 billion people protected from harmful trans fat in their food

Two years into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ambitious effort to eliminate industrially produced trans fats from the global food supply, the Organization reports that 58 countries so far have introduced laws that will protect 3.2 billion people from the harmful substance by the end of 2021. But more than 100 countries still need to take actions to remove these harmful substances from their food supplies.
Consumption of industrially produced trans fats are estimated to cause arou

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Regions: Canada , Iran , Nigeria , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health
COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn

With the number of under-five deaths at an all-time recorded low of 5.2 million in 2019, disruptions in child and maternal health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at stake
The number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record in 2019 – down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990,
World Mental Health Day: an opportunity to kick-start a massive scale-up in investment in mental health

Joint release by the World Health Organization, United for Global Mental Health and the World Federation for Mental Health

Mental health is one of the most neglected areas of public health. Close to 1 billion people are living with a mental disorder, 3 million people die every year from the harmful use of alcohol and one person dies every 40 seconds by suicide. And now, billions of people around the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is having a furth

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Regions: Argentina, Peru , United Kingdom , United States

Topics: Combating Drugs and Crime, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

172 countries and multiple candidate vaccines engaged in COVID-19 vaccine Global Access Facility

Nine CEPI-supported candidate vaccines are part of the COVAX initiative, with a further nine candidates under evaluation, and procurement conversations on-going with additional producers not currently receiving research and development (R&D) funding through COVAX – giving COVAX the largest and most diverse COVID-19 vaccine portfolio in the world
80 potentially self-financing countries have submitted non-binding expressions of interest to the Gavi-coor

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Regions: Afghanistan, Argentina, Canada , Chile, China, France , Ireland , Norway , Tonga , United Kingdom , United States , West Bank , Zambia

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

2 in 5 schools around the world lacked basic handwashing facilities prior to COVID-19 pandemic — UNICEF, WHO

As schools worldwide struggle with reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43 per cent of schools around the world lacked access to basic handwashing with soap and water in 2019 – a key condition for schools to be able to operate safely in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Global school closures since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have presented an unprecedented challenge to children’s education and

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Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

Framework for the evaluation of new tests for tuberculosis infection

WHO and the Stop TB Partnership’s New Diagnostics Working Group (NDWG) launched today a framework for the evaluation of new tests for tuberculosis infection. The document provides details on study design, populations, reference standards, sample size calculation and data analysis to guide the future development of these tests.
Approximately a quarter of th

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Regions: Italy

Topics: Global Health

New COVID-19 Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for the global COVID-19 response

Launching today, the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic. The goal is to ensure that laws protect the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities and that they adhere to international human rights standards.
The new Lab (at www.COVIDLawLab.org) is a joint project of United Nations D

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Regions: United Kingdom

Topics: Climate and Environment, Combating Drugs and Crime, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation

Eleven New Psychoactive Substances to be considered for international control by 43rd ECDD

Eleven New Psychoactive Substances to be considered for international control by 43rd ECDD

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Topics: Combating Drugs and Crime

WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19

WHO and UNICEF call for immediate efforts to vaccinate all children as new data shows that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine coverage stalled at 85 per cent for nearly a decade, with 14 million unvaccinated infants yearly

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Regions: Ethiopia , Haiti , Nepal

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health

#EndTB Webinar: From Policy to Practice: Rolling out new WHO guidelines on rapid diagnostics and drug-resistant TB treatment

A special #EndTB Webinar organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide key updates on recently released new WHO guidance on rapid diagnostics and drug-resistant TB treatment. The aim of the webinar is to facilitate better understanding of the guidance to enable its rapid uptake in countries by national programmes and other key stakeholders. This will translate to earlier access to quality diagnosis and treatment, and better outcomes for the millions affected by TB and drug-resistant TB.

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Regions: United Kingdom

Topics: Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

First UN solidarity flight departs Addis Ababa carrying vital COVID-19 medical supplies to all African nations

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Regions: United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom

Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

WHO and Global Citizen announce: 'One World: Together at home' Global Special to support healthcare workers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

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Regions: Canada , United Kingdom

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

WHO and UNICEF to partner on pandemic response through COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

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Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

IPA, WHO and UNICEF launch Read the World on International Children’s Book Day to support children and young people in isolation

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Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy

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