Make a difference and declare your support for #VaccinEquity. Sign the WHO declaration calling for #COVID19 vaccines to reach health workers in every country in the first 100 days of 2021: who.int/vaccinequity
#HealthWorkers have been at the forefront of the #COVID19 response: often under-protected and over-exposed. Sign the #VaccinEquity declaration to accelerate the rollout of life-saving vaccines to health workers everywhere: who.int/vaccinequity
If we protect #healthworkers with early #COVID19 vaccination, they in turn can vaccinate, treat and care for people at risk in all countries and ensure that essential health services are maintained. #VaccinEquity who.int/vaccinequity
Let’s make this the greatest mass mobilization in history 👉 who.int/vaccinequity
We call on global, national and local leaders to accelerate #VaccinEquity in every country, starting with #healthworkers and those at highest risk for #COVID19. This includes scaling up vaccine manufacturing and rejecting vaccine nationalism at every turn who.int/vaccinequity
We call on world leaders to increase contributions to the COVAX facility and to share doses with COVAX in parallel with national #COVID19 vaccine rollout. #VaccinEquity who.int/vaccinequity
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"Just over a year ago, WHO launched its 1st Strategic Preparedness & Response Plan (SPRP) for #COVID19. The SPRP outlined the comprehensive response needed & which many countries have followed successfully to suppress transmission, protect the vulnerable & save lives"-@DrTedros
"With an ask of $1.7B, the 1st SPRP saw an unprecedented response. With the support of Member States & donors, we raised $1.58B, over 90% of which was allocated to countries & regions, getting vital funding to those at the frontline of the #COVID19 pandemic ..."-@DrTedros
🆕WHO & @iascch partners launch a guide 'Actions for Heroes' for parents, caregivers & teachers, providing advice on how to have conversations about #COVID19 with children 👦👧.
Actions for Heroes guide 📖 provides tips for answering children 👦👧’s questions about the #COVID19 pandemic and how to talk with understanding and compassion about issues such as loneliness, stress and the loss of loved ones.
🆕 WHO‘s new easy-to-navigate online platform 💻 (MAGICapp) brings together its most up-to-date recommendations for #malaria to help countries reduce & #EndMalaria🦟.
📃all official WHO recommendations for #malaria🦟 prevention & case management
📃links to other resources such as guidance, operational manuals, handbooks & many more.
The recommendations on this 🆕 platform 💻 will be reviewed & updated as new evidence becomes available, using WHO’s transparent and rigorous guideline review process.
Quality agriculture land is ↗️ used for tobacco growing in low-& middle-income countries,↘️the amount of land that can be used for crops to feed people. In Africa 🌍 tobacco crop yields ↗️ 10% from 2012 to 2018
Today, 2 versions of the AstraZeneca/Oxford #COVID19 vaccine are listed for emergency use, giving the green light for these vaccines to be rolled out globally through #COVAX. The vaccines are produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio 🇰🇷 & the Serum Institute of 🇮🇳
As part of the Emergency Use Listing, WHO assessed the quality, safety and efficacy data, risk management plans and programmatic suitability, such as cold chain requirements of the AstraZeneca/Oxford #COVID19 vaccine.
The vaccine was reviewed by WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE), which makes recommendations for vaccines’ use in populations. The SAGE recommended the AstraZeneca/Oxford #COVID19 vaccine for all age groups 18 & above.
"The number of reported cases of #COVID19 globally has now declined for the fifth consecutive week. Last week saw the lowest number of reported weekly cases since October"-@DrTedros
"So far this year, the number of weekly reported #COVID19 cases has fallen by almost half, from more than 5 million cases in the week of January 4 to 2.6 million cases in the week starting February 8 – just five weeks"-@DrTedros