Month: July 2022

MONTREAL/GENEVA, 30 July 2022 — Global AIDS leaders have joined forces in issuing a strong warning that derailing of progress to end AIDS is putting millions of people in danger. They came together to launch UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022, ahead of t…

Global AIDS leaders raise alarm on the danger of millions of preventable deaths stating that only bold action to tackle inequalities can end the AIDS pandemic Read More

Executive SummaryThe Breaking Down Barriers initiative of the Global Fund provides financial and technical support to 20 countries to remove human rights-related and gender-related barriers to HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria services. Midterm assess…

Mid-term Assessment Summary Report – Global Fund Breaking Down Barriers Initiative, July 2022 Read More

Spain reported its first monkeypox-related death on Friday, in what is thought to be Europe’s first death from the disease and only the second outside Africa in the current outbreak.Brazil reported earlier on Friday the first monkeypox-related death ou…

Spain and Brazil report first monkeypox-related deaths outside Africa Read More

Two of the hardest-hit U.S. regions have raised the alert level over the monkeypox outbreak.San Francisco declared a public health emergency Thursday. The city accounts for 281 of California’s nearly 800 cases. The declaration gives health officials ac…

Action on Monkeypox Accelerates in US as Outbreak Expands Read More

GENEVA – Protection services are severely lacking for refugees and migrants making perilous journeys from the Sahel and Horn of Africa towards North Africa and Europe, including survivors of human trafficking, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warned today….

To support trafficking victims, UNHCR urges more protection services in Africa Read More

“Tragically, it is also a problem that is growing worse – especially for women and girls, who represent the majority of detected trafficked persons globally”.Separated and vulnerableConflicts, forced displacement, climate change, inequality and poverty…

Human trafficking: ‘All-out assault’ on rights, safety and dignity, says UN chief Read More