We must all accept hard choices if we’re to beat COVID-19, urges WHO
Governments everywhere should adopt a much more focused approach to stopping coronavirus transmission if they want to avoid having to impose sweeping lockdowns once again.
COVID-19 means development setbacks for Mongolia: a UN Resident Coordinator’s blog
Child in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19
The World Health Organization and UNICEF warned of an alarming decline in the number of children receiving life-saving vaccines around the world on July 15, 2020. This is due to disruptions in the delivery and uptake of immunization services caused by...
‘Country-driven’ approach needed to limit COVID-19 damage to food security
Traditional Hadong Tea Agrosystem in Hwagae-myeon, Korea, cultivate indigenous tea trees...
Illegal trade in fake or faulty COVID-19 products booming, new UN research reveals
Health workers in Madagascar test citizens for COVID-19.
WHO to issue new brief on airborne transmission, following ‘active engagement’ with scientists
Vendors in a bakery in Constantine, Algeria, during the COVID-19 crisis.
Move away from outdated ‘mad or bad’ approach to mental illness, urges independent UN expert
Patients at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in Delhi, India.
Terrorist groups must not be allowed to exploit ‘fragilities’ caused by global health pandemic
Many countries continue to face terrorism threats during the global pandemic.
COVID-19 pandemic ‘not even close to being over’, WHO chief warns
A woman in Gujarat, India, is educated on the benefits of handwashing during the COVID-19...
UNICEF comment on malnutrition in Afghanistan at the Geneva Palais briefing
A baby is screened for malnutrition at a hospital in the Kishim district of Badakhshan Province in...
