LDC Insight #1: COVID-19 recovery and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Why LDCs can’t just ‘build back better’
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12 August 2022 / Federica Irene Falomi and Taffere Tesfachew
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WISH Summit: Technology Transfer: Future-proofing Health for All
Innovative health technologies – rapidly developed, equitably accessible, and easily diffused - can help countries sustainably reduce their health vulnerabilities and become resilient to future shocks.
The WISH Summit and the UN Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries will through this session facilitate an exchange of ideas and share experiences on systematic approaches to creating health resilience, using technology transfer for COVID -19 as a starting point.
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Critical COVID-19 protective supplies delivered to frontline workers in Kingdom of Lesotho
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Gebze - A donation of 100,000 facemasks has been handed to frontline workers in the Kingdom of Lesotho in an effort to urgently protect key workers, such as medics, police and boarder control staff from COVID-19. The protective supplies are intended for use whilst local production is being ramped up.
UN agencies launch Tech Access Partnership in joint effort to scale up local production of life-saving health technologies for COVID-19
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New York - The United Nations Technology Bank, together with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Health Organization (WHO), launched the Tech Access Partnership (TAP) on 12 May 2020, as part of a coordinated approach to strengthen developing countries’ responses to COVID-19 and increase access to lifesaving health technologies.