At inspiring #SDGMoment in the #UNGA Hall, #UNSG @antonioguterres highlights SDG progress in response to #HIV 👏🏽🙏🏽

It is with profound sadness that we confirm that Sergeant Morgan Wong, Private Shaun Farrell, Private Aidan Goulding, and Private Hayden Lykkemark lost their lives during an incident at CFB Wainwright yesterday. 39 additional members sustained injuries. canada.ca/en/department-nati…

Every Pacific island country brings experience, priorities and perspectives that deserve a strong voice in WHO. At #RC77 in Manila, I presented my manifesto to health leaders from the Cook Islands 🇨🇰, Fiji 🇫🇯, the Federated States of Micronesia 🇫🇲, Samoa 🇼🇸and Solomon Islands 🇸🇧. Population size, geography and distance from global decision-making centres should never limit a country’s influence within WHO or its access to the Organization’s support. To put this principle into practice, if elected WHO Director-General, I will appoint a Special Envoy on Small and Island Developing States. The Envoy will help ensure that all small countries and island states are treated equally in all WHO services and processes. This commitment is central to my vision of a country-first WHO: one in which every Member State participates as an equal partner and receives support according to its needs.

Breaking: CNN legend Christiane @Amanpour, the network's chief international anchor, is departing the network next June. cnn.com/2026/10/19/media/chr…

Starting my visit to the Philippines at #RC77 @WHOWPRO in Manila. Great to reconnect with longstanding @UNAIDS friends and partners from Fiji 🇫🇯—Health Minister @AtonioDr and Permanent Secretary Dr Aalisha Sahukhan. Strong partnerships are vital to advancing health for all, including ending AIDS!

Live from @WHOWPRO in Manila - it’s the 77th session of the @WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific Region - our governing body in the most populous WHO Region of all, with 2.2 billion people, over a quarter of the world population. We have an urgent and ambitious agenda - from longstanding priorities to emerging issues impacting health and wellbeing across the life course. Immunization. Hypertension control. Tobacco control. Artificial intelligence. We are also discussing healthy ageing in a region that is graying quickly - as well as exploring new, more efficient ways to ensure an essential health stockpile through pooled procurement, to support countries all the more. Join the proceedings online at who.int/westernpacific or via our @WHOWPRO @X, @YouTube, @facebook and @LinkedIn platforms. My thanks to all our Member States for their attendance and collaboration - and to all our health partners from civil society to donors and philanthropies. Gratitude as well to outgoing Regional Committee Chair the Hon. @AtonioDr, Minister of Health of Fiji, and Vice Chair, the Hon. Satoshi Ezoe, Senior Asst. Minister for Global Health at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of @japan, for their guidance over the past year. And, not least, my thanks to our esteemed WHO Director-General, my brother @DrTedros for gracing us with his presence on what is his last RC with us before he steps down at the end of his tenure next year. A bittersweet, poignant moment for all of us. WHO’s mandate and vision of Health for All has never been more vital. So, join us at #RC77 - we look forward to having you be part of our most important gathering of the year. 🙏

À l’ONU à New York, un message fort du Président de l’Assemblée générale : « Que la COP31 soit jugée non pas à l’aune des promesses que nous répétons, mais à celle des populations que nous protégeons. » L’avenir de nos enfants exige des actes, pas des promesses. #UNGA81

Health sovereignty does not mean countries working alone. It means countries leading and partners aligning behind national priorities. That is the idea behind the Accra Reset, and it ran through my exchange with partners in Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮: the Ordre National des Médecins, Institut Pasteur, the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, @UNICEF_CIV, @UNFPA and @UNAIDS. It also has a practical side. As external assistance declines, countries need sustainable domestic financing without losing the national capacity they have built. Partners asked how @WHO can best support this transition. Health sovereignty also requires greater capacity to produce medicines locally and regionally. This can help reduce inequities, supported by strong regional institutions such as Africa CDC and the African Medicines Agency. On universal health coverage, the path remains the one set out in the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, which will mark its 50th anniversary in 2028: health for all through primary health care (PHC) rooted in communities. That is why PHC is the signature initiative of my manifesto. My thanks to partners for an open and thoughtful exchange.

@AlGlobalKyiv has established LGBTIQ+ friendly shelters. These are safe spaces for people who need temporary accommodation and support due to war, displacement, violence, or other difficult circumstances. What do we offer? Learn more: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #Kyiv @Dnipro #Lviv

Reconstruire l’OMS, c’est renforcer à la fois l’Organisation et les pays qu’elle sert – grâce à un financement durable, une souveraineté pharmaceutique accrue et une coopération qui tisse des liens entre les régions et les différentes perspectives. J’ai été encouragé d’entendre la ministre d’État, ministre des Affaires étrangères de la Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮, Mme Nialé Kaba, souligner que ces priorités constituent des points forts de mon programme, lors de notre rencontre à Abidjan. Pour la Côte d’Ivoire, la souveraineté pharmaceutique est un enjeu immédiat et concret : comme l’a souligné la ministre, seuls 10 % des médicaments utilisés dans le pays sont produits localement. Combler de tels écarts exige de la coopération. La ministre Kaba et moi-même avons examiné comment les pays de la Francophonie peuvent partager leur expertise, renforcer leurs partenariats et faire progresser des priorités communes en matière de santé. @NialeKaba_Off | @CI_Diplomatie | @Pierre_DIMBA | @Santeci | @CotedivoireOnu | @belgiumabidjan | @BelgiumMFA | @BelgiumUNGeneva

This week’s ‘epicenter’ of volunteering is Yerevan 🇦🇲 where 350 UN Volunteers are supporting the world’s main conference on biodiversity unv.org/news/more-350-un-vol… @UNBiodiversity @SchomakerAstrid

UNAIDS helps keep the HIV response accountable: tracking progress against global targets, reporting annually on the data, and supporting countries to turn commitments to the 2026 Political Declaration into action. Douglas Bosire, CEO of @nsdcc_kenya, reflects on how UNAIDS brings data, communities and political leadership together to sustain progress.

Nearly 40 years ago, Amb. Mark Green was teaching in a Kenyan village. Today, he leads ONE. Five months into his role, he reflects on Africa’s progress, its growing global influence and why he’s optimistic about its future. Read his reflections in ONE Stubborn Thing: bit.ly/3TKzYWB

The HIV response has unfinished business. @UNAIDS 2026: 5.0 million people didn’t know their status in 2025. 32.1 million were on treatment. 74% were virally suppressed. It isn’t finished until everyone diagnosed can stay well. #PLHIVLeadersNow @floriako @SboNkosiZA

Communities, young people and partners came together in Mokhotlong, Lesotho, to strengthen efforts to address HIV, gender-based violence and unintended pregnancy among adolescent girls and young women. Through collective action, we can help every girl grow up healthy, safe and empowered to shape her future. #TripleThreatLesotho #AGYW #EndAIDS

Today would have been Michel Foucault's birthday. A victim of France's legal and social prejudice against homosexuality, Foucault was a French philosopher who addressed topics such as power, sexuality and truth. His story is remembered today through #AIDSQuilt panels like these.

Two-thirds of Americans now say they favor Medicare for All, according to a new @KFF poll. That's the highest level KFF has recorded since it started polling the idea in 2016, up from 53 percent in 2020. This tells me two things: Americans are fed up with rising health care costs, and no one is offering up a more realistic, more effective alternative. You can't beat something with nothing, and right now Medicare for All is close to the only something on the table. Health policy experts need to offer something else. What are your best ideas? (Mine are coming)

#UequalsU is a medical fact of a working #ARV and a successful #HIV treatment. A miracle of modern medicine, optimizing health and removing differences. Spread the science, not stigma. Promote freedom, not fear.

Africa’s health security is our health security. @AmbassadorGreen joined @NTI_WMD to discuss how better data, stronger domestic health financing and co-investment can help countries prepare for outbreaks and attract investment. nti.org/news/leaders-urge-ta…

Keith Haring: Art, AIDS, and Activism riseuptohiv.com/keith-haring

Our latest issue is here! 🙌 This Canadian 10 yr longitudinal study showed that among predominantly male adults with well-controlled HIV, cognitive decline progressed slowly primarily driven by - modifiable - vascular risk factors. 🔗👉ow.ly/FcAj50ZY4j5