COVID-19 – News Updates
Recent Updates
- Digital technologies for health financing:
- New WHO Global Compact to speed up action to tackle diabetes
- WHO calls for comprehensive, equitable access to healthcare for every Chagas disease patient
- WHO and the International Organisation of the Francophonie (IOF) sign Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen access to health in Francophone countries
- Benefits of continuing to provide life-saving HIV services outweigh the risk of COVID-19 transmission by 100 to 1
- US$ 1.4 trillion lost every year to tobacco use – New tobacco tax manual shows ways to save lives, money and build back better after COVID-19
- Meeting of the Guidelines Development Group (GDG) for the update and consolidation of guidelines for safe abortion care
- Global shortage of innovative antibiotics fuels emergence and spread of drug-resistance
- COVAX reaches over 100 economies, 42 days after first international delivery
- WHO launches Progress Indicators to measure access to assistive technology
- Interim statement of the COVID-19 subcommittee of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety on AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
- Alisson Becker and WHO Foundation launch campaign to raise resources and support treatment for COVID-19 patients starting in the Americas
- WHO urges countries to build a fairer, healthier world post-COVID-19
- Living with the Times: new toolkit helps older adults maintain good mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- New WHO-IUCN Expert Working Group on Biodiversity, Climate, One Health and Nature-based Solutions
- Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister of Sweden, appointed WHO Special Envoy for the ACT-Accelerator
- VSN membership
- WHO calls for further studies, data on origin of SARS-CoV-2 virus, reiterates that all hypotheses remain open
- Global leaders unite in urgent call for international pandemic treaty
- Medical Product Alert N°2/2021: Falsified COVID-19 Vaccine BNT162b2
- Joint Statement on prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination for seafarers and aircrew
- COVAX updates participants on delivery delays for vaccines from Serum Institute of India (SII) and AstraZeneca
- WHO Urban Health Initiative releases report on sustainable transport in Ghana
- WHO validates Cote d’Ivoire for eliminating sleeping sickness as a public health problem
- The Clock is ticking – it’s time to end TB deaths among people with HIV!
- WHO announces updated guidance on the systematic screening for tuberculosis
- Introducing the WHO technical package on quality of care in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings
- Statement on Gender-Based Violence in Tigray region of Ethiopia
- COVID-19 highlights urgent need to reboot global effort to end tuberculosis
- WHO announces 2nd edition Health for All Film Festival shortlist and jury composition
- Campaign launched to make 30 km/h streets the norm for cities worldwide
- Statement of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) COVID-19 subcommittee on safety signals related to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: closing the gap to end neglected tropical diseases
- Reframing child and adolescent health for the SDG era
- WHO statement on AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine safety signals
- WHO publishes new clinical and service delivery recommendations for HIV prevention, treatment and care
- PUBLIC REVIEW of the 6th edition of the WHO laboratory manual for the examination and processing of human semen
- Ageism is a global challenge: UN
- New research highlights risks of separating newborns from mothers during COVID-19 pandemic
- ACT-Accelerator releases prioritised strategy and budget for 2021 to change the course of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic
- WHO adds Janssen vaccine to list of safe and effective emergency tools against COVID-19
- WHO and partners urge countries to fast-track implementation and scale-up of HIV self-testing and other innovative HIV testing approaches in Asia and the Pacific
- WHO signs MoU with Women in Global Health on International Women’s Day
- Medical Product Alert N°1/2021: Falsified Vitamin A
- New brief outlines devastating harms from tobacco use and exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke during pregnancy and throughout childhood – Report calls for protective policies
- Devastatingly pervasive: 1 in 3 women globally experience violence
- GACVS COVID-19 Vaccine Safety subcommittee meeting to review reports on influenza-like illness in individuals vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccines
- New global breast cancer initiative highlights renewed commitment to improve survival
- WHO publishes materials that aim to provide high-quality care to people affected by lymphatic filariasis
- No-fault compensation programme for COVID-19 vaccines is a world first
- WHO Director-General’s statement on Tanzania and COVID-19
- G7 leaders commit US$ 4.3 billion to finance global equitable access to tests, treatments and vaccines in 2021
- World Waking Up To Vaccine Equity
- Statement of the Twenty-Seventh Polio IHR Emergency Committee
- Consultation: Draft Global Strategy on WASH and NTDs 2021−2030
- WHO lists two additional COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use and COVAX roll-out
- Acute malnutrition threatens half of children under five in Yemen in 2021: UN
- WHO Executive Board stresses need for improved response to mental health impact of public health emergencies
- WHO Publishes Quality Criteria for Health National Adaptation Plans
- ILO joins the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All
- In the COVID-19 vaccine race, we either win together or lose together
- COVAX Statement on New Variants of SARS-CoV-2
- France and WHO: a strategic partnership for global health security
- COVAX Announces new agreement, plans for first deliveries
- GACVS COVID-19 Vaccine Safety subcommittee meeting to review reports of deaths of very frail elderly individuals vaccinated with Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, BNT162b2
- WHO Information Notice for IVD Users 2021/01
- Statement to the 148th Executive Board by the Chair of the Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) during the COVID-19 Response
- WHO Guidelines for establishing a poison centre
- Emergency Committee on COVID-19 advises on variants, vaccines
- World Health Assembly endorses the 1st ever resolution on meningitis prevention and control
- WHO developed a global laboratory protocol for measuring trans fat in foods
- Global scientists double down on SARS-CoV-2 variants research at WHO-hosted forum
- Early childhood development in conflict-affected countries is key to life-long health, wellbeing and prosperity, says WHO and partners
- WHO urges governments to promote healthy food in public facilities
- UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile
- COVID-19: One year later – WHO Director-General’s new year message
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- Mobilizing youth to End TB
- New study highlights cost-effectiveness of bans on pesticides as a suicide prevention strategy
- New study highlights cost-effectiveness of bans on pesticides as a suicide prevention strategy
- New study highlights cost-effectiveness of bans on pesticides as a suicide prevention strategy
- New study highlights cost-effectiveness of bans on pesticides as a suicide prevention strategy
