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WHO and Costa Rica preview technology pooling initiative to ensure access to COVID-19 health products for all

Geneva, 15 May 2020 – Presidents Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica and Sebastián Piñera of Chile joined WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today to announce progress on a technology platform that aims to lift access barriers to effective vaccines, medicines and other health products against COVID-19. Costa Rica proposed the idea at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and several countries are now backing the proposal. “Our proposal relies on solidarity,” said President Alvarado of Costa Rica. “It’s a Solidarity call to action to Member States, to academia, to companies,

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The Netherlands affirms its position as a leading flexible contributor to WHO

On 22 November 2021 Paul Bekkers, ambassador and permanent representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Ms Jane Ellison, executive director, external relations and governance, met to sign an amendment increasing the Netherlands’s core voluntary contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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First joint WHO-World Health Summit strengthens engagement with a diverse range of partners

October 2022 - Geneva, WHO signed new agreements with a variety of civil society, political and community stakeholders in October at the World Health Summit in Berlin, a three-day hybrid event that reached some 60 000 participants worldwide. For the first time, WHO co-hosted the Summit, which drew 4,100 in-person participants from 141 countries to more than to more 60 sessions with a common goal: improving health for everyone, everywhere. At the event, WHO expanded partnerships with civil society and advocates, and formalized strategic engagements with non-traditional stakeholders - relationsh

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OCHA and WHO annual consultation

Geneva, 21 June - Representatives of WHO and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) focused their annual financial and management review meeting on strengthening their 18-year partnership to prevent and respond to humanitarian crises. Both agencies provided updates: WHO on its emergency operations and the WHO Global Health Appeal, and OCHA on its funding mechanisms for emergencies and strategic priorities. Discussions also touched on the urgency of early data sharing in disease outbreaks and the role of innovation in emergency prevention and response – bo

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France signs agreements to support WHO's work

©WHO/Chris B. Geneva – His Excellency Jérôme Bonnafont, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in Geneva, and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, today signed several funding agreements totaling € 25.5 million to support critical health priorities. The agreements include € 4.5 million of funding for the Core Voluntary Contribution Account (CVCA) of WHO; these are fully flexible funds which allow WHO to allocate resources to key priorities outlined in its General Programme of Work. An additional € 15 million will be used to deliver on specific key priorities,

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Paris des Arts: Special edition in Geneva

This week Paris des Arts decamps to Geneva, the cosmopolitan Swiss city nestled between the lake and the Jura mountains. Valérie Fayolle is there to meet two artists who have made it their home. Young chef Danny Khezzar heads up the team at the Michelin-starred Bayview restaurant. A "Top Chef" finalist in 2014, Khezzar has two passions: music and cooking.

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'UN unable to bring peace to conflicts: We haven’t seen this level of violence in decades’

Rochelle Ferguson Bouyahi is pleased to welcome Fanny Badache, Researcher at Sciences Po and Lecturer at the University of Geneva. The UN mandate is international peace and security, yet its ability to fulfill that mandate ultimately depends on the cooperation of sovereign states, namely the five powerful permanent members of the Security Council. As the UN is confronted with an increasingly fragmented, volatile and unpredictable international order, Badache argues that when those powers are divided, the mechanisms designed to enable collective security can instead produce paralysis.

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Governments agree to continue their steady progress on proposed pandemic agreement ahead of the World Health Assembly

Governments of the world today agreed to continue working on a proposed pandemic agreement, and to further refine the draft, ahead of the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly that starts 27 May 2024. Governments meeting at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva agreed to resume hybrid and in-person discussions over coming weeks to advance work on critical issues, including around a proposed new global system for pathogen access and benefits sharing (i.e. life-saving vaccines, treatments and diagnostics); pandemic prevention and One Health; and the financial coordination needed t

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Frank, in-depth discussion as Belgium and WHO map ahead priorities for collaboration

In a three-day strategic dialogue, Belgium and WHO reviewed progress in their longstanding partnership, and agreed to further boost their collaboration on universal health coverage, health-systems strengthening and equitable access to essential vaccines, medicines and health technologies. The Belgian delegation – headed by H.E. Christophe Payot, Ambassador of Belgium to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva – discussed issues of strategic importance, exchanged views on how to smoothly align WHO strategic directions and Belgium's development cooperation priorities i