Local Govt Forum

First Person: Hawaii’s ‘silver tsunami’: the challenge of caring for kupuna elders UN News/Daniel Dickinson Diane Paloma is the CEO of Lunalilo Home in Honolulu, Hawaii.         28 March 2020 Health The 17 goals agreed by the global community to reduce poverty and create a sustainable planet are the responsibility of all people, wherever they are in the world, according to the United Nations. The Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs represent a boundary-pushing blueprint for the future of the Earth and it’s anticipated they will be realized by 2030. UN News joined the International Labour Organization on a visit to Hawaii where many people are already living aspects of the goals in their everyday work.  Diane Paloma is the CEO of Lunalilo Home and the King William Charles Lunalilo Trust which cares for elderly people in Honolulu, the capital of the US state of Hawaii.  Some 80 residents and ...

Amidst pandemic, now is the time for action to also beat tuberculosis, urges WHO UNDP/Aurélia Rusek A Somali refugee who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2017 holds her chest x-ray in a camp in Djibouti where she lives with her family.         24 March 2020 Health As countries across the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Health agency reminded everyone on Tuesday, World Tuberculosis Day 2020, that TB remains the world’s most deadly infectious disease. According to the World Health Organization ( WHO ), a quarter of the global population is estimated to be infected with TB bacteria. And even if there are no signs of sickness, those infected with TB already are at greater risk of developing the disease, especially those with weakened immune systems.  World Health Organization (WHO) ✔  ·  21 h Replying to @WHO Affordable and quick diagnosis is the first ste...

COVID-19: Lockdown across India, in line with WHO guidance UN India Normally bustling streets in cities across India were mostly deserted as the country observed the shutdown.         24 March 2020 Health India’s decision to impose a 21-day lockdown, which was announced on Tuesday, comes after a call from the UN health agency, WHO, for the country to take “aggressive action”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s order for the country’s 1.3 billion people to stay home, is an escalation of the 07:00 – 21:00 “Janata curfew” introduced on March 22, and it comes a day after the government grounded all domestic flights. Mr. Modi reportedly declared that the lockdown applies to “every district, every lane, every village”, and warned that “If you can’t handle these 21 days, this country will go back 21 years”. The future of this pandemic will be determined by what happens to densely-populated countries  Mike Ryan, ...