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Dr. Kate OBrien, Immunization Director at the World Health Organization, takes us on a historical tour from the development of the first modern vaccine in the late 18th Century, to the new vaccines that are combatting todays COVID pandemic. The 51勛圖, and its partners in the COVAX facility, are ensuring that vaccines reach every low-income country in the world.
, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the collective action needed and to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Find out more about these life-saving medicines.
Its early morning and mothers and their children are arriving at the Family and Child Support Centre for young children from vulnerable families. Waiting inside are social workers who are getting ready to welcome the children. The centre in Istaravshan is one of four converted residential childcare institutions, known as Baby Homes in Tajikistan. With s support, the spaces have been transformed into family centres where vulnerable children can access community and family-based support without being institutionalized.
Champion footballer Didier Drogba, the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health, joined senior leaders of , the State of Qatar and FIFA in supporting the . This unique global partnership protects and encourages health; and will take lessons learned from the first tournament in the Middle East and Arab world to share with future mega sporting events.
Almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds air quality limits, and threatens their health. A record number of over 6000 cities in 117 countries are now monitoring air quality, but the people living in them are still breathing unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, with people in low and middle-income countries suffering the highest exposures. The findings have prompted the World Health Organization to highlight the importance of curbing fossil fuel use and taking other tangible steps to reduce air pollution levels.
30 March 2022 - A third of the worlds population has yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, including a shocking 83 per cent of all Africans, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday.
When COVID-19 hit, the closure of Cabo Verdes borders to prevent the virus from spreading took a toll on peoples lives and livelihoods. Tourism suddenly stopped and many Cabo Verdeans lost their job. Thanks to a strong health system and a sound supply strategy, Cabo Verde became a model for COVID-19 response, with a lot to teach its neighbours on how to carry out vaccination campaigns. The responded to the crisis through several operations, at the beginning of the pandemic for $10 million, including credit line and social inclusion programmes.
today launched its first ever the first six weeks after birth. This is a critical time for ensuring newborn and maternal survival and for supporting healthy development of the baby as well as the mothers overall mental and physical recovery and wellbeing. Worldwide, more than 3 in 10 women and babies do not currently receive postnatal care in the first days after birth - the period when most maternal and infant deaths occur.
has operated programmes in Ukraine since 1997 and in the Republic of Moldova since 1995. In addition to providing technical and programme advisory services to the neighbouring countries to the Ukraine that are receiving refugees, the agency is working to bring reproductive health equipment and supplies and mobile health teams providing sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services to Ukraine. It continues to operate 10 shelters, eight crisis rooms and a support hotline for gender-based violence survivors.
Tuberculosis remains one of the deadliest infectious killers. Each day, over 4100 people lose their lives to TB and close to 28,000 fall ill with this preventable and curable disease. Global efforts to combat TB have saved an estimated 66 million lives since the year 2000. However, in the context of COVID-19, for the first time in over a decade, TB deaths increased in 2020. For this years , WHO calls to Invest to End TB. Save Lives. There is still an urgent need to invest resources to ramp up the fight against TB and achieve the commitments to end TB made by global leaders.
is releasing on abortion care, in a bid to protect the health of women and girls and help prevent over 25 million unsafe abortions that currently occur each year.
Although pandemics are a fact of life, the world was blindsided by the impact and devastation of COVID-19. As the pandemic played out in real time, it showed that we were woefully unprepared. Experts underscore the importance of truly understanding how the health of people, animals, and the planet interconnect. Health security plans cannot be piecemeal. Responses must be bolstered with social protection, especially during lockdowns. We need to act more quickly, and with greater fairness. explains that what we do now could make this pandemic the last of its kind.
World Hearing Day, 3 March, with the theme To hear for life, listen with care, focuses on the importance and means of hearing loss prevention through safe listening.
The formula milk industry - worth a colossal US$ 55 billion annually - spends billions every year on marketing their products. This is despite an international agreement to restrict marketing, on the basis that formula promotion can have profound and lifelong impacts on childrens health and development. informs how marketing targets women and families during vulnerable moments, including with misleading tactics like industry-sponsored chats and helplines.