WHO and @UNESCO urge countries to make every school a health-promoting school, following the Global Standards for Health-promoting Schools that aim to ensure all schools promote life skills, cognitive & socioemotional skills & healthy lifestyles. who.int/news/item/22-0…
@UNESCO Every school 🏫 should be a health-promoting school:
✅ Fostering health and learning
✅ Providing a healthy environment, health education, and health services
✅ Making sure policies and practices respect students’ wellbeing and dignity
Children should have access to quality school health services. For many children, these services are their first introduction to the health ⚕️ system and positive and respectful experiences will lead to strong health-seeking behaviors.
Countries should invest in health-promoting education systems and reinforce partnerships between education, health, and other sectors to support health promoting schools.
Today, WHO, @UNICEF & Ministry of Healthcare of #Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 co-host a high-level dialogue & call on political leaders to reinforce their commitment to #PrimaryHealthCare as we respond to #COVID19 & health emergencies & build forward better.
This international collaboration between WHO & a South African consortium comprising @biovac_inst, Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines, a network of universities & @AfricaCDC marks a significant step towards achieving #VaccinEquity.
Establishing this COVID mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub will help scale up production and access to #COVID19 vaccines, particularly in the African region 🌍.
@DrTedros "Globally, newly-reported cases of #COVID19 have now declined for 8 weeks in a row, and deaths have declined for the 7th straight week. This is good news, but new infections and deaths remain high globally"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "Last week more than 2.5 million #COVID19 cases and almost 64,000 deaths were reported – that’s 250 cases and 6 deaths every minute, that we know of"-@DrTedros
"Tomorrow, we expect the government of #Guinea to announce the end of its #Ebola outbreak. I would like to offer my congratulations to 🇬🇳 and the #healthworkers who helped to contain the outbreak at very high personal risk"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "Thank you also to our partners who provided financial and technical support.
As you know, #Guinea was one of three countries that was affected by the devastating West African #Ebola outbreak in 2014 and 2015"-@DrTedros
In 2019, among young people aged 15-29, suicide was the 4th leading cause of death after road injury, tuberculosis and interpersonal violence bit.ly/3qb106g
C-sections are absolutely critical to save lives in situations where vaginal deliveries would pose risks. But not all those carried out at the moment are needed for medical reasons.
Unnecessary surgical procedures can be harmful, both for a 👩🏻and her👶🏻 bit.ly/2TFMK9a
Caesarean sections can be essential in situations such as
✅ prolonged or obstructed labour
✅ fetal distress
✅ when the baby is presenting in an abnormal position bit.ly/2TFMK9a