Outside the WHO and UNAids headquarters in Geneva, 22 May 2019. (Keystone/AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)

🚪UNAids is set to close in 2026 – four years early. Are experts right to be alarmed? The sunsetting of the UN agency comes at a time when international aid for low-income countries is disappearing, throwing the global HIV response into disarray.

🧮New global nonprofit accounting standard aims to save NGOs millions. The International Nonprofit Accounting Standards, or INPAS, launching in Geneva this week, will help the sector save millions in administrative costs by creating a unified framework for financial reporting that is globally recognised by donors and regulators alike.

✂️ICRC to cut 240 jobs at its Geneva headquarters. The news comes after the humanitarian organisation announced in July its decision to slash its 2026 budget by 17 per cent to CHF1.8 billion as part of efforts to adapt to declining donor support.

💰New leaders’ initiative aims to drive investment in health. The Health Works Leaders Coalition, an initiative launched Friday by the World Health Organization, the World Bank and Japan, aims to help shore up more financial support for health systems as shrinking international development assistance threatens to unravel years of hard-won gains.

⛓️UN says international staff held by Yemen's Houthis 'free to move' in compound. Rebels raided a United Nations building in Sanaa on Saturday, holding 20 of its employees. All five national staff have been released while the 15 international employees are allowed to move inside the compound, the organisation said.