WHO reveals 4β£0β£ countries currently implement best-practice trans fat elimination policies, protecting 1.4 billion people around the πππ from this deadly food compound.
Food manufacturers also have a responsibility to nourish their consumers by turning commitments they made to eliminate industrially produced trans fat from their products into action.
@DrTedros "The Omicron variant has now been reported in 57 countries and we expect that number to continue growing. Certain features of Omicron, including its global spread and large number of mutations, suggest it could have a major impact on the course of the #COVID19 pandemic"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "Exactly what that impact will be is still difficult to know. We are now starting to see a consistent picture of rapid increase in transmission, although for now the exact rate of increase relative to other variants remains difficult to quantify"-@DrTedros
LIVE with @DrTedros at the Nutrition for Growth Summit β¬οΈ #N4G2021
@DrTedros "Malnutrition in all its forms is one of the worldβs leading causes of death and illness. Even before the #COVID19 pandemic, the world was off track to achieve the global nutrition targets for 2025 set by the World Health Assembly"-@DrTedros#N4G2021
"The Nutrition for Growth Summit is a global call to action to achieve those commitments. I welcome the three areas of focus of the Nutrition for Growth Summit: health, food and resilience"-@DrTedros#N4G2021
Convalescent plasma is a transfusion of blood plasma from someone who has recovered from #COVID19, and is used as a treatment for COVID19 bit.ly/3DvUNXm
WHO convened an independent panel of experts - the guidelines development group - to look at data from 16 randomized controlled trials using convalescent plasma, incl. 16,236 patients with non-severe, severe & critical #COVID19 infection bit.ly/3DvUNXm
Based on current evidence, convalescent plasma should not be used to treat #COVID19 for non-severe patients.
It does not improve survival or reduce the need for mechanical ventilation in these patients, while it has significant costs bit.ly/3DvUNXm
"This Wednesday marks 1 year since the 1st #COVID19 vaccines were administered. A year ago, we all hoped that by now vaccines would be helping us all emerge from the long, dark tunnel of the pandemic. As the Omicron variant demonstrates, the pandemic is from far over"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "Persistent vaccine inequity has allowed this to happen. More than 8 billion doses have now been administered π β the largest vaccination campaign in history. But we all know that this incredible achievement has been marred by horrific inequity"-@DrTedros
"When we established the @ACTAccelerator and #COVAX last year, it was because we knew from our experience with many other diseases that market forces alone wouldn't lead to equitable access"-@DrTedros
#COVID19 pandemic has disrupted #malaria services, leading to a marked increase in cases and deaths: 14 million more cases in 2020 compared to 2019, and 69,000 more deaths - new report.
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Approximately 2 in 3 of these additional deaths were linked to disruptions in the provision of #malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment during the pandemic bit.ly/3IlXxu9#EndMalaria
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to carry the heaviest #malaria burden, accounting for about 95% of all malaria cases and 96% of all deaths in 2020.
About 80% of deaths in the region are among children under 5 years of age bit.ly/3IlXxu9#EndMalaria