The Population Data Sheet, published annually by ESCAP, features a range of key indicators on population and development. The focus is on population size, structure and growth rates, as well as...
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The Population Data Sheet, published annually by ESCAP, features a range of key indicators on population and development. The focus is on population size, structure and growth rates, as well as...
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A disaster emergency is underway in Asia and the Pacific as risks outpace resilience, warns new UN study The Asia-Pacific region has a narrow window to increase its resilience and protect its...
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Executive Summary The UNDP RBAP Strategic Foresight "Anticipating Risks and Uncertainties for Asia and the Pacific: A Hybrid Horizon Scanning Report" (December 2022) is an analysis report of over 400...
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ADB Operations Reach $20.5 Billion in 2022, Addressing Crises, Building Resilience MANILA, PHILIPPINES (24 April 2023) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) committed $20.5 billion from its own...
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Overview In this edition of the COVID-19 Monthly Operational Update, highlights of country-level actions and WHO support to countries include: EMRO reflects on genomic sequencing and its future...
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Summary for policymakers Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2022 for ESCAP Subregions: Summary for Policymakers builds on ESCAP’s Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2021, Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report...
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Opinion-Editorial: As the International Confederation of Midwives celebrates its 100th anniversary, the Regional Director for the United Nations Population Fund for the Asia and Pacific region, Björn...
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Introduction This report, released two years after COVID-19 began spreading around the world, considers how countries have been responding to this complex and still evolving pandemic, and highlights...
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FOREWORD Inspired by the more than 1,250 voluntary commitments made to address the unfinished business of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development,...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since the signing of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, countries around the world have committed to equitable and inclusive development for girls...
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Between 1 January – 14 October 2021, the ERCC has received 60 requests through the UCPM for personal protective or medical equipment, diagnostic tests, medical teams, medicines and vaccines. 52 of...
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Building off of last week’s announcement of additional actions that we are taking to stop the spread of the Delta variant and get more people vaccinated in the United States, President Biden will...
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These doses are the remaining part of the 80 million President Biden pledged to allocate by the end of June Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing the distribution list for 55 million...
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INTRODUCTION More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed across at least 176 countries, with over 1.7 billion doses administered worldwide. Combatting the...
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Situation In Numbers 34,202,886 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases 475,579 COVID-19 Deaths Source: WHO, 19 May 2021 Regional Situation The trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic took an acute turn in late March...
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E-2020 initiative: a brief overview The WHO Global technical strategy for malaria 2016–2030, endorsed by the World Health Assembly in May 2015, is designed to guide and support all malaria-affected...
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OVERVIEW BACKGROUND Today’s generation of young people is the largest in human history: globally, 1.8 billion people are aged between 10-24 years, accounting for a quarter of the world’s population...
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Regional Situation With over 10.5 million confirmed cases, India continues to have the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the region and the second highest globally. Whereas transmission has reduced...
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Regional Situation With over 8 million confirmed cases, India continues to have the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the region and second globally. The pandemic continues to spread across Asia...
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan News Number: G/45/2020 As countries grapple with the serious impacts to public health systems and socio-economic development caused by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, innovation...