Never too late to fight back against pandemic
“While we await further breakthroughs, we have seen that the virus can be effectively contained through the application of tried and tested public health measures.”
WHO
Covid-19 cases escalating rapidly in Libya
WHO has requested US$ 22.3 million to respond to COVID-19 in Libya. Thus far, it has received just over US$ 2.3 million in signed contributions.
Push for stronger health systems as Africa battles COVID-19
Since Africa confirmed its first COVID-19 cases in February the continent has recorded more than 1.1 million cases.
Momentous achievement: Africa becomes polio free
The last case of wild poliovirus in the region was detected in 2016 in Nigeria. Since 1996, polio eradication efforts have prevented up to 1.8 million children from crippling life-long paralysis and saved approximately 180,000 lives.
172 Countries engaged in Covid-19 Vaccine global access facility
COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, is the only global initiative that is working with governments and manufacturers to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are available worldwide to both higher-income and lower-income countries.
Children have ‘nowhere to turn’, reports UNICEF
Disruptions to services for preventing and responding to violence in the home , due to the global pandemic, has left children in more than 100 countries vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, a UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) survey has found.
Libya: UN human right chief appoints independent investigators to probe abuses it
UN-led efforts to address serious rights violations in Libya, received a boost on Wednesday with the appointment of three independent investigators to document abuses in the war-torn country.
Covid-19 pandemic creating largest disruption in education, UN warns
The UN estimates that the pandemic has affected more than one billion students worldwide.
Governments should promote breast feeding: WHO & UNICEF
By IAR Desk UNICEF and WHO, in line with the policy actions advocated by the
Mideast at ‘critical threshold’ in virus numbers: WHO
Over 80 percent of all deaths in the region were reported in five countries — Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia — according to WHO