In 2021, in addition to the 🌐 #COVID19 response, WHO supported health needs of communities experiencing humanitarian crises due to conflict, climate change, & economic & political insecurity in:
🔸Afghanistan
🔸Northern Ethiopia
🔸Syria
🔸Yemen
🔸& more

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WHO calls on countries to protect and preserve the health and the #HumanRights of the vulnerable in all humanitarian settings across the 🌎🌍🌏 in the New Year, and to allow safe access to care to achieve #HealthForAll.
WHO condemns any acts of violence against health care that interferes with or prohibits access to health services, especially in times of the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic. #HealthWorkers everywhere should be able to provide health care in a safe & protected environment.

#NotATarget
WHO calls on donors & partners to continue their support in 2⃣0⃣2⃣2⃣ to:
✅sustain health facilities
✅expand health systems
✅improve disease surveillance
✅deliver urgently needed medicines, supplies & vaccines
✅respond to disease outbreaks
💙save lives

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More from @WHO

29 Dec 21
"Two years ago, as people gathered for New Year’s Eve celebrations, a new global threat emerged."-
@DrTedros
"WHO’s health emergency system immediately swung into action, establishing an Incident Management Support Team, to run the emergency response and requesting more information about the reports of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, China."-
@DrTedros
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28 Dec 21
Home care for #COVID19: a guide for family and caregivers
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There are several things you can do to prepare in case someone in your household has #COVID19 infection.

Know your risk. Lower your risk.
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If you are caring for a person with #COVID19 infection at home, prepare a well-ventilated separate room or isolated space for the person.

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22 Dec 21
UPDATED: WHO & the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) interim statement on booster doses for #COVID19 vaccination 👉bit.ly/3pkOToe
The focus of #COVID19 immunization efforts must remain on decreasing death and severe disease, and the protection of the health care system. 👉bit.ly/3pkOToe
In the context of ongoing global #COVID19 vaccine supply constraints & inequities, broad-based administration of booster doses risks exacerbating vaccine access. 👉bit.ly/3pkOToe
Read 6 tweets
22 Dec 21
"The end of a year is always an opportunity to look back, and to look forward.
As we look back, 2021 gave us many reasons to hope. Science delivered that hope, in the form of vaccines, which have undoubtedly saved many lives this year."-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "On the other hand, there is no doubt that the inequitable sharing of those vaccines has cost many lives.
2021 was a year in which we lost 3.5 million people to #COVID19 – more deaths than from HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined in 2020."-@DrTedros
Read 34 tweets
21 Dec 21
10 key global health moments from 2021 bit.ly/3GZR4U5
1⃣ Innovation and inequities in the #COVID19 response

WHO has validated 10 vaccines as safe, effective & high-quality; Over 8 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide but by the end of November, only 1 in 4 African health workers were fully vaccinated.
The @ACTAccelerator halved the cost of #COVID19 rapid tests for low & lower-middle income countries; procured over 148 million tests.
Read 4 tweets
21 Dec 21
"It’s a pleasure to welcome our friends from the Palais back to WHO.
The last time we hosted you, in July last year, none of us could have imagined that almost 18 months later, we would still be in the grip of the pandemic."-@DrTedros, media briefing for Geneva-based journalists
"More than 3.3 million people have lost their lives to #COVID19 this year – more deaths than from HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined in 2020.
And still, COVID-19 continues to claim around 50,000 lives every week."-@DrTedros
"That’s not to mention the unreported deaths, and the millions of excess deaths caused by disruptions to essential health services."-@DrTedros
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