To best respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls on world leaders to come together and offer an urgent and coordinated response to this global crisis. The three-part action plan includes first tackling the health emergency. Second, placing focus on the social impact and the economic response and recovery. Third, and finally, prioritizing the responsibility to "recover better." In this unprecedented situation the normal rules no longer apply and the magnitude of the response must match its scale. The world faces a common enemy. We are at war with a virus.
Health Interventions
With the coronavirus crisis spreading to more countries with broader social and economic implications, the United Nations is mobilizing its global workforce to help affected Governments to contain or slow the onslaught of this deadly disease. While the continues to lead the global fight against the spread of COVID-19, around the world, UN teams are also working with authorities to support national preparedness and response plans, including immediate health priorities and broader social and economic impacts.
What if students could shape solutions to help people forced to flee their homes? , the UN Refugee Agency, is challenging Model United Nations delegates worldwide to debate the major issues related to forced displacement.
Women health workers are critical in the effort to contain COVID-19 in Iran. Listen as they speak about their courage, sacrifice and gender-equal role as frontline responders to the public health crisis.
Pregnant women should take routine preventative actions to avoid infection with the coronavirus, . Preventative measures, recommended (WHO), include diligent hand-washing, avoiding close contact with people exhibiting symptoms of infection, covering sneezes and coughs, and thoroughly cooking meat and eggs. In general, pregnancy-related physical changes may increase some pregnant women's susceptibility to viral respiratory infections. UNFPA urges health officials to treat pregnant women with respiratory illnesses as an “utmost priority.â€
Epidemics can be reversed, but only with the highest level of political commitment. has asked the international community for . Â鶹´«Ã½ has such as monitoring the spread of the virus, investigating cases and supporting national laboratories. A United Nations Crisis Management Team has been established with WHO in the lead. is playing a key role in the wider UN response.
If ever we needed reminding that we live in an interconnected world, the novel coronavirus has brought that home. No country can tackle this alone, no part of our societies can be disregarded if we are to effectively rise to this global challenge. The coming weeks and months will challenge national crisis planning and civil protection systems, and will certainly expose shortcomings in sanitation, housing and other factors that shape health outcomes. Our response to this epidemic must encompass, and in fact, focus on, those whom society often neglects or relegates to a lesser status. Otherwise, it will fail.
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused unprecedented disruption in many areas of our lives, and that’s true of a key UN forum as well: the .
is working with and the Ministry of Public Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which remains in the grip of the world’s Ebola epidemic on record, to strengthen infection prevention and control measures in reproductive health facilities in the affected areas.
Whoopi Goldberg knows how it feels to have pneumonia - and she never wants another baby to suffer that same struggle to breathe.
From hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, to the elimination of malaria in Argentina and rabies transmitted by dogs in Mexico, in public health in the Americas.
Access to health is a basic right, one that is central to a life of dignity. Maternal health is still one of the biggest concerns worldwide. In a three-part series, explores the trials, triumphs and hopes of a community that live in Turkana, one of Kenya’s poorest counties.
Peter Koopmans, who has been working for for 10 years, began the on World AIDS Day, 1 December, to raise money for a South African charity working to support sexually abused children and to increase awareness around HIV in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Mr. Koopmans has raised US$ 21,000 for the South African charity Bobbi Bear, which was supplemented by funds from UNAIDS World AIDS Day fundraising activities, bringing the total to well over US$ 25,000.
The , , and others are partnering for research on the use of the nuclear sterile insect technique in the fight against diseases carried by mosquitoes, such as dengue and the
WHO scales up response to worldwide surge in dengue