In September, we handed the grim milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19 globally and numbers proceed to rise in a disaster that feels as if there’s no finish. nonetheless the World well being group and its companions proceed to work tirelessly to handle the pandemic and forge a approach out for all. simply seven months in the past, the UN basis joined forces with the Swiss Philanthropy basis and the World well being group […]

The Americas have made important progress in reaching the milestone of eliminating malaria all by the area and concurrently strengthening well being methods. nonetheless, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to undo this progress till collective movement is taken. final week, we marked Malaria Day inside the Americas, a day that promotes consciousness of the illness and acknowledges the notable efforts to sort out malaria inside the area. The Americas have made important progress in reaching the

The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund helps the world’s most susceptible all by the pandemic by companions simply like the UN Refugee agency. in a single South Sudan refugee camp, youths compose songs to enhance consciousness about COVID-19 prevention. The pulsating sound of drumbeats pierces the air in Doro refugee camp, located in northeastern South Sudan. women, males, and youngsters dance inside the Jamhuri important school, in sync with the rhythm. As visitors enter the gate, they’re serenaded with

ladies’s and ladies’ inclusion, and daring management are vital better than ever as we search to attain the Sustainable enchancment goals by 2030. Nothing about us with out us. That was the prevailing theme of a current dialog all by the UN basis’s worldwide Dialogue on strategies on how to scale ladies’s management as a end result of the world seeks to advance our worldwide goals and pursue a better and fairer world for all.

Even earlier than the worldwide unfold of a lethal virus that has shuttered companies, faculties, and full economies, scientists had already sounded the alarm about one other doubtlessly catastrophic worldwide public well being disaster: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR is now a shut to and current hazard to well being packages and the people they serve. well being care packages, collectively with fully different sectors of society, are beneath risk from what are generally usually acknowledged

worldwide firms are taking larger, bolder movement as we enter a decisive decade to fight local climate change and search to cease irreparable damage to our shared planet and humanity. extra should observe their event. larger than ever, we now want to work ambitiously collectively throughout industries and sectors, governments and civil society, to discover our shared local climate targets, as UN Secretary-regular António Guterres has outlined: by investing in inexperienced jobs, refusing to bail

Worldwide, of us on the frontlines have been working throughout the clock to comprise the COVID-19 pandemic. With the usa passing 12 million whole circumstances this journey season, nurses, physicians, and completely different well being professionals might have their fingers full – that is their story. Inequitable entry to well being care has prolonged been a problem inside the usa. Even earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the system was affected by exorbitant prices, lack

It’s value repeating that the latest predictions of multilateralism’s demise have a generational part to them. youthful individuals are, by and massive, reasonably hopeful for the future and think about strongly inside the value of worldwide institutions simply like the United Nations. the factors they care about — local climate change, human rights, financial alternative — have worldwide dimensions that require multilateral options. picture: Parker LaCourse, UNA-USA Forty p.c of the world’s inhabitants is aged

The World well being group is drawing from Pakistan’s polio eradication infrastructure to inform its COVID-19 prevention and remedy efforts inside the nation. so far, Pakistan has fared pretty effectively in its battle in direction of COVID-19. In a rustic with over 212 million inhabitants, fewer than 4 hundred,000 circumstances have been recorded so far. For a creating nation going by means of utterly different well being challenges, collectively with transmission of untamed polio and