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The WHO Executive Board Special Session #EBSpecial on the #COVID19 response will start today at 12h00 CEST.

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The WHO Executive Board is composed of 34 technically qualified members elected for 3-year terms.
The main functions of the Board are to implement the decisions & policies of the Health Assembly, advise & generally to facilitate its work bit.ly/3ngx9r8

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Director-General @DrTedros following consultation with the Board Chair, has called for an #EBSpecial session on #COVID19 response to follow up on the World Health Assembly resolution approved by Member States earlier in May bit.ly/33t7raO

In #EBSpecial Member States will discuss and seek guidance on developments around efforts to implement the strategic preparedness & response plan, as well as the actions taken to initiate the review by an independent panel.

#COVID19

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At the #EBSpecial, @DrTedros will submit an interim report of a brief summary of WHO’s activities since Jan 2020 in response to the #COVID19 pandemic & will set out the steps taken to ensure that appropriate lessons are learned & best practices implemented as the pandemic evolves

WHO works across the world with >7000 staff, 150 country offices, 6 regional offices directing, coordinating & strengthening health systems, health through the life-course; non- & communicable diseases; preparedness, surveillance & response.

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Timeline: WHO's #COVID19 response
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The Access to #COVID19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator is a ground-breaking global collaboration to accelerate the development, production, and equitable access to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.
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#ACTogether
 
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"No #COVID19 vaccine is going to be mass-deployed before regulators, governments & WHO are confident that it has met the minimum standards of efficacy & safety."
-@doctorsoumya

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WHO is only able to protect health, humanity’s most precious resource, because of the generosity and collaboration of our Member States, the private sector, foundations, academic institutions, civil society and other partners.

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WHO strives to be a good partner in global health by showing the results of our work - people's health improving, unnecessary death from diseases reduced, and overall quality of life elevated for people everywhere.

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Investing in WHO is not about investing in an organization. It’s about investing in a healthier, safer, fairer world.

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While health has often been viewed as a cost, #COVID19 pandemic shows how critical health investment is to national security. It has pushed health systems, both weak & strong, to the limits. No country has been left untouched.

It's time for #HealthForAll

Canada, WHO & @WFP deliver 25 tons of personal protective equipment to #Honduras🇭🇳 through #COVID19 supply chain, a global commitment to accelerate the procurement of PPE and basic health supplies.

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Thanks to support from New Zealand, WHO boosted efforts in controlling and preventing #COVID19 transmission in #Ecuador & #Galapagos through:

✅enhanced health sector response
✅multi-level coordination
✅epidemiological surveillance

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.@pahowho Strategic Fund for Public Health Supplies helps provide 🔟 million #COVID19 tests and protection equipment across the Americas.

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WHO sent logistics, infection prevention, control & management experts to help strengthen hospitals & health workers’ capacity to fight #COVID19 in #GuineaBissau 🇬🇼.

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WHO built a newly equipped public health laboratory in #Sudan 🇸🇩 to provide faster #COVID19 response to all Darfur states, covering 13 million people, including refugees and internally displaced persons.

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WHO & @EU_Commission delivered personal protective equipment, medical supplies & laboratory devices to support health care workers, patients & vulnerable people in #Moldova🇲🇩.

More info 👉bit.ly/2GCooqq #WHOImpact

Kuwait, WHO & @eu_echo launched 'Your Health Is Important' campaign with health promotion and awareness messages to limit transmission of #COVID19 in 🔟 heavily populated and COVID-19-affected districts in #Iraq 🇮🇶.

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WHO helped #LaoPDR 🇱🇦 provide trainings to community health workers to learn how to identify and report signals of possible #COVID19 outbreaks immediately on a daily basis

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Thanks to support from Japan, WHO is able to sustain the mental health care system in #Yemen 🇾🇪, ensuring capacity-building, strengthening mental health governance and human resources development.

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With support from WHO & @AfricaCDC, #Ghana🇬🇭 has expanded #COVID19 testing centers, easing the load on the country’s only facility able to test for the virus.

More details👉bit.ly/3jwHYmt #WHOImpact

WHO & partners work together to reach and support healthcare facilities and the most vulnerable in #Syria 🇸🇾, delivering essential medicines, health kits, ventilators & testing supplies.

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