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Clean Cooking Alliance Releases Initial Findings of Systems Strategy Share Article The strategy includes input from numerous partners working to accelerate coordinated action on clean cooking. "The Clean Cooking Alliance has led the development of the Systems Strategy on behalf of the entire clean cooking ecosystem to secure commitment and mobilize collective action in this critical year and beyond.” - Dymphna van der Lans, CEO, Clean Cooking Alliance WASHINGTO...

LONDON — The head of the World Health Organization acknowledged the U.N. health agency’s response to sexual abuse allegations involving employees who worked in Congo during an Ebola outbreak was “slow,” following an Associated Press investigation that found senior WHO management knew of multiple cases of misconduct. As WHO’s highest decision-making body meets this week,…

The head of the World Health Organization has acknowledged the U_N_ health agency’s response to sexual abuse allegations involving employees who worked in Congo during an Ebola outbreak was “slow.”.

WHO Staff Tell Directors They Must Address Systemic Failures Leading to Congo Sex Abuse Charges On 5/28/21 at 10:12 AM EDT An investigation by the Associated Press found that senior WHO management knew about multiple cases of misconduct. "In many ways, were all to blame for what happens in these situations," Dr. Michael Ryan, WHOs emergencies chief, said as WHO leaders meet this week. WHO staff members have demanded upper management take immediate action to address the allegations and reports ...

LONDON (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization acknowledged the U.N. health agency's response to sexual abuse allegations involving employees who worked in Congo during an Ebola outbreak was “slow,” following an Associated Press investigation that found senior WHO management knew of multiple cases of misconduct.

Issuing Presidential Statement, Security Council Expresses Concern about Devastating Impact of COVID-19 on Africa, Urges Greater Cooperation (S/PRST/2021/10) Format Pandemic Feeding Many Drivers of Conflict, Instability Says Secretary-General Despite having suffered some of the COVID-19 pandemic’s worst socioeconomic impacts — including inflated debt burdens, job losses and worsening conflicts — Africa has to date received just 2 per cent of vaccine doses produced globally, the Security C...

Credit: Share Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here. In his speech to the joint session of Congress last night, US President Joe Biden said that “America is rising anew,” while calling for an expansion of federal programs to push the country’s economy beyond the coronavirus pandemic. Restoring the millions of jobs lost to the virus, universal preschool and two years of free community college are a few of the points Biden argu...

Calls for fair global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines By Elana Gordon © Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, March 15, 2021. India said in March it would suspend vaccine exports until the viruss spread inside the country slows. The WHO recently described the supply situation as precarious. "Triple stupid." That i...

It’s World Immunisation Week, which reminds the globe that #VaccinesWork and improve everyone’s health across the planet. Immunisation prevents three million deaths a year and the uptake of new and underused vaccines is on the rise. The World Health Organization has called this week “an unprecedented opportunity” to build public trust in the value of vaccines. For the 10th year, jazz will be celebrated as a force of peace on International Jazz Day on Saturday, 30 April. Why jazz, you as...

Date Time ACT-Accelerator one year on The ACT-Accelerator marks its first anniversary today with a special report on the global alliance’s progress against the COVID-19 pandemic. The “ACT Now, ACT Together: 2021 Impact Report” details the major scientific advances that have been made to confront the new disease, along with the history-making collaboration of global health organizations, governments, foundations, civil society, scientists and the private sector. The report, which was launc...