A new agreement between WHO and the UN Refugee Agency will strengthen and advancepublic health services for the millions of forcibly displaced people around the world.
It adds to the agreement signed in 2019 with The International Organization for Migration and is the latest in a series of efforts to prevent public health emergencies and address health needs in refugee and migrant populations.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, have signed a new agreement to strengthen and advance public health services for the millions of forcibly displaced people around the world.
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今年的一个主要目的是支持正在开展的活动,以保护大约7000万流离失所者免受COVID-19感染。
A key aim this year is to support ongoing efforts to protect some 70 million displaced people from COVID-19 infection.
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约有2600万难民,其中80%被卫生系统薄弱的低收入和中等收入国家收容。
Around 26 million are refugees, 80% of whom are sheltered in low and middle-income countries with weak health systems.
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世卫组织总干事谭德塞博士说:“团结原则和为弱势群体服务的目标是我们这两个组织的工作基础。
"The principle of solidarity and the goal of serving vulnerable people underpin the work of both our organizations," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
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我们相互支持,致力于保护所有背井离乡者的健康,并确保他们随时随地获得所需的卫生服务。
"We stand side by side in our commitment to protect the health of all people who have been forced to leave their homes and to ensure that they can obtain health services when and where they need them.