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| No images? Click here Friday 07.01.22 | Issue 162 Subscribe to receive this weekly updateWHO / NOOR / Sanne De Wilde Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) updates A virtual press briefing with simultaneous translation in all UN languages with the participation of the WHO Director-General is expected for next week. However we will update if this changes. Media advisories with Zoom links/dial-in details will be emailed in advance. 4-5 July Next Monday and Tuesday, Switzerland jointly with Ukraine will host the international Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC 2022) in Lugano, Switzerland. WHO will participate. More info for media is here. Wednesday, 6 July 11th ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council The 11th ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council meeting will take place next Wednesday, 12:30-15:00 (CEST). The meeting will orient Council Members on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic, build political momentum to accelerate the uptake of COVID-19 tools, and harvest the Members' views on ACT-A’s work in the transition to long-term COVID-19 control. It will be livestreamed here.
This UN Report will present updates on the food security and nutrition situation around the world, including the latest estimates of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet. The report also looks at ways in which governments can repurpose their current support to agriculture to reduce the cost of healthy diets, mindful of the limited public resources available in many parts of the world. The report will be jointly published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and WHO. Now until 31 July Online public consultation on draft guideline on policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing Children continue to be exposed to powerful food marketing in settings where they gather (e.g. schools, sports clubs), during children’s typical television viewing times or on children’s television channels, on digital spaces popular with young people, and in magazines targeting children and adolescents. Such food marketing predominantly promotes less healthy options, such as sugar-sweetened beverages, chocolate and confectionery, and uses a wide variety of marketing strategies that are likely to appeal to children, including celebrity/sports endorsements, promotional characters, product claims, gifts/incentives, tie-ins, competitions and games. Such marketing negatively shapes food preferences and values. To address this challenge, and to support Member States in developing an enabling food environment to promote healthy diets and improve nutrition, WHO has developed evidence-informed guidelines on policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing. A public consultation on WHO's draft guideline is now happening until 31 July. More info here. Sign up for our newsletters here. Check out the WHO series, Science in 5. See more upcoming WHO events here. Latest WHO Disease Outbreak News (DONs) here. Listen to Global Health Matters. WHO Media contacts: You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list.
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