The General Assembly today adopted the Political Declaration of last month’s high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance, recognizing it is one of the most urgent global health threats, and demanding immediate action to safeguard the ability to treat diseases, enhance food security and advance the Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
New estimates indicate that nearly 67 million people in Eastern Africa are now in need of humanitarian assistance, accounting for more than 20 per cent of the total number of people in need globally. Humanitarians continue to provide assistance to millions of people.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for World Mental Health Day: “It’s Time to Prioritize Mental Health in the Workplace”, observed on 10 October:
Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message on the occasion of the High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, in New York today:
Acknowledging that antimicrobial resistance is an urgent threat to global human and animal health, food security, the environment and development, Member States approved a political declaration on the menace this morning.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message, as prepared for delivery, on the occasion of the third gathering of the Global Group of Heads of State and Government for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, in New York today:
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) today issued its latest report on Myanmar, detailing a range of serious human rights violations that continue to underscore the deepening crisis and lack of rule of law throughout the country.
The World Health Organization (WHO) just announced the first prequalification approval of a vaccine against mpox, stating that the MVA-BN vaccine is an important step to fight the disease in both current and future outbreaks. Now, urgent scale-up of procurement, donations and rollout are needed.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today that they are stepping up their support to the Government to protect the lives of children under 15, who account for about 60 per cent of the suspected cases of mpox and 80 per cent of the deaths in the country this year.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that hundreds of thousands of people in Nigeria have been impacted by flash floods after a dam collapsed in Maiduguri in Borno State. The Office says that immediate humanitarian needs include food, include shelter and clean water.
