July 18th, 2019

According to the latest data from UNAIDS, the number of people living with HIV has risen at the same time that the number of new HIV infections and the number of AIDS-related deaths have fallen.

September 4th, 2019

Uganda is still lagging behind to the attainment of Universal Health Coverage-UHC despite the 2030 target set by the global health community.

August 5th, 2019

Human-caused climate change drove heatwaves in Europe and the Arctic, with above-average temperatures also seen across Africa and Australia.

September 4th, 2019

To improve health and environment, the WHO recommends that policymakers and the public implement measures to better manage and reduce plastics use.

July 10th, 2019

The 2019 meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) opened on Tuesday, 9 July 2019, at UN Headquarters in New York.

June 10th, 2019

Per the principle of geographical rotation, the president of UNGA 74 was to be elected from the African Group. Muhammad-Bande was the only official candidate for the presidency, and after an informal dialogue on his candidature in May 2019, he was elected

June 8th, 2019

Climate change is no worse than the IPCC says it is, and is amenable to prompt action. Governments manage to cooperate and agree to a new treaty to cut carbon by 2030, and a global structure is set up to ensure compliance.

May 9th, 2019

Hoesung Lee, IPCC Chair, welcomed the expected approval of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 Guidelines on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, noting that this will ensure that the methodology used to determine national inventories is based on the latest s

April 30th, 2019

The hearing is part of the preparatory process for the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on universal health coverage, which will take place on 23 September 2019 in New York, with the overall theme: Universal Health Coverage: Moving Together to Build

April 30th, 2019

UNICEF launched an appeal for USD 122 million to bring humanitarian aid to Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, following a rise in cholera and malaria cases after Cyclone Idai, while WHO unveiled a global influenza strategy to reduce the yearly occurrence of

April 30th, 2019

A Guide to Equitable Water Safety Planning: Ensuring No One is Left Behind

April 30th, 2019

A “more silent crisis” is the gradual but accelerating species extinction, which, in combination with climate change, produces a worldwide “bio-climatic crisis.”

April 23rd, 2019

In recent months, the Trump administration has taken a hard line, refusing to agree to any UN documents that refer to sexual or reproductive health, on grounds that such language implies support for abortions. It has also opposed the use of the word “gend

April 19th, 2019

UN’s Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development (IATF) introduces “integrated national financing frameworks” to help countries align their financing policies with their strategies and priorities.

April 18th, 2019

On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to follow up and comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustaina

April 13th, 2019

As part of the collaboration, IsDB will help leverage new funding through the GPE Multiplier, an innovative funding mechanism that provides low- and lower middle-income countries one dollar from GPE for every three dollars they raise from other sources

April 13th, 2019

Climate change is a threat multiplier. If we don’t act urgently and with more ambition, it will destabilize the global economy, create conflict, displacement and cause incredible suffering for people everywhere. But climate change also provides our single

April 13th, 2019

The grants are prime examples of GPE’s core transformative power: to provide developing countries the essential resources they need to educate all their children,

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