TEST MODULE 02 | Test Module 2

Leprosy: countries should step-up prevention initiatives to stimulate sluggish decline in new cases

New cases of leprosy are decreasing, but not at the anticipated rate. In order to accelerate the annual decline, countries should screen contacts and treat eligible contacts with single-dose rifampicin, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its guidelines.

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Regions: India , Indonesia , Sri Lanka

Topics: Energy, Global Health, Global Women's Issues
Letter to malaria partners (September 2020)

This letter will focus largely on WHO’s efforts to address the double challenge of malaria & COVID-19. Our work in recent months has been carried out in close collaboration with country-based experts and global partners. We are very grateful to all of our partners for their ongoing commitment and contributions.

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Regions: Chad , China, France , Italy , Rwanda , Sierra Leone , United Kingdom

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health
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
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Test Module 2

Leprosy: countries should step-up prevention initiatives to stimulate sluggish decline in new cases

Letter to malaria partners (September 2020)

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

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

New Ebola case confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Statement on the 5th meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee for Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 14 April 2020

WHO Director-General’s Statement on IHR Emergency Committee on Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Medical Product Alert N°4/2020

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Statement of the Twenty-Fourth IHR Emergency Committee

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

COVID-19: Multisectoral measures should be evidence-based: WHO Regional Director for the African Region

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

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