COVID-19 threatens progress made in global heath UN
Mr. Mogens Lykketoft, President of the seventieth session of the General Assembly.
Ms. Catherine Pollard, Under Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management
Published 17 December 2020
The United Nations says the novel coronavirus pandemic is threatening the progress made in global health over the past two decades.
The Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Winnie Byanyima, stated this recently when the UN team held a half-day strategic brainstorming retreat with the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 amid indications of a second wave of the pandemic
Byanyima said, “COVID-19 is threatening the progress that the world has made in health and development over the past 20 years, including the gains we have made against HIV. Only global solidarity and shared responsibility will help us beat the coronavirus, end the AIDS epidemic and guarantee the right to health for all.”
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As humanitarian crises have become more and more complex, UNHCR has expanded both the number and type of organizations it works with. We work closely with sister UN agencies, whose work complements or converges with ours.
Most important among these are the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Children s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
UNHCR is also committed to working closer with other agencies through the Delivering as One initiative, which aims at improving cooperative UN action in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment. Additionally, we have embraced the so-called cluster approach to IDP (internally displaced people) emergencies, whereby different agencies take the lead in their area of expertise while working together to help t
Research Article
HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes assessment among women of child-bearing age in South Sudan: Findings from a Household Survey
William Mude , Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft
Affiliations College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, School of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia ⨯
Edward K. Ameyaw, Roles Writing – original draft
Affiliation The Australian Centre for Public and Population Health Research (ACPPHR), School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Namibia: New Study Shows Decline in Funding for HIV-Related Human Rights Work
14 December 2020
By Moses Magadza
As the world marked International Human Rights Day on 10 December under the Covid-19 related theme Recover Better - Stand Up for Human Rights , a study by the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) showed a steady decline in funding for social enablers.
Social enablers include activities that address barriers such as stigma and discrimination, violence, gender inequality and problematic laws and policies, which increase the vulnerability of people to HIV and also impede their access to and retention in services. At the United Nations General Assembly in 2016, world leaders committed to invest at least 6% of all global AIDS resources for social enablers and to ensure that 30% of all service delivery by 2030 is community-led.