🆕 guidance from WHO, @UNICEF, @UNFPA , @UNESCO, and @HRPResearch on designing digital health interventions not only for 👩🏿🧑🏻 young people but with young people at every step of the way
🚭 Quit smoking
🍺 Limit alcohol consumption
🛑 Control high blood pressure and high cholesterol
✅ Manage diabetes
🏋🏾♀️ Watch your waist and weight
🍏 Eat healthy
🏃🏾♂️ Exercise regularly 30 minutes a day
The past week has seen the highest number of new #COVID19 cases reported globally since the start of the pandemic, amounting to over 2M new cases in the past 7 days.
As of 25 October, over 42M cases and 1.1M deaths have been reported, with over 2.8M new cases and nearly 40,000 new deaths reported over the past week.
For the second consecutive week, #Europe accounts for the greatest proportion of new cases, with over 1.3M new cases this past week – a 33% increase compared to the previous week – contributing nearly half of all new cases worldwide this week (46%).
At @UNGeneva, @WHO today briefed on the situation in #Yemen, where 18M people need healthcare, and only half of all health facilities are still functioning.
@UNGeneva For years, #Yemen has suffered from conflict and, increasingly, disease: the worst cholera outbreak in modern times, diphtheria, dengue, measles, malaria, the re-emergence of #polio, and now #COVID19. For people with chronic conditions, treatment is limited.
@UNGeneva Since the first #COVID19 case in April, 2000+ cases and 600+ deaths have been reported in #Yemen. The actual case count could be higher, since testing and reporting remain limited.
25 years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action aimed at #GenderEquality much of the agenda remains unfinished.
Progress in 👩🦰’s health remains fragile & uneven: bit.ly/2TsKe31
While progress was made in↘️maternal mortality & harmful gender practices like Female Genital Mutilation, millions of women have an unmet need for contraception. Sexual & reproductive health conditions represent 1 of the 🔑 causes of disease for 👩🏽 & 👧🏾
↗️ rates of reproductive cancers, mental ill-health, non-communicable diseases & new disease outbreaks incl. Ebola, Zika and #COVID19, are highlighting the need to have a comprehensive approach to women’s health throughout their life-course.