Shocking!
99% - or almost the entire world's population breathes air with unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter & nitrogen dioxide, and threatens their health.
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Over 6,000 cities in 117 countries are now monitoring air quality, but the people living in them are still breathing air that exceeds WHO air quality limits, with people in low & middle-income countries suffering the highest exposures bit.ly/3uW6wfC
Particulate matter, especially PM2.5, is capable of penetrating deep into the lungs & entering the bloodstream, causing cardiovascular, cerebrovascular (stroke) & respiratory impacts bit.ly/3uW6wfC
Today is World Autism Awareness Day. With appropriate support from caregivers, the health and education sectors and society at large, autistic people can live happy, fulfilled lives.
The abilities and needs of autistic people vary and evolve over time. Health-care services need to be designed with the participation of autistic people
to promote personalized care and respond to their evolving needs.
WHO urges quality care for women & newborns in critical first six weeks after childbirth - critical time to ensure survival, support healthy development of the baby as well as the mother’s overall mental & physical recovery and wellbeing bit.ly/3iKPgV9
Postnatal contacts are recommended for healthy women & newborns between 48 and 72 hours, between seven and 14 days, and during week six after birth.
If health risks are identified, more contacts will likely be required.
Worldwide, more than 3 in 10 women & babies do not currently receive postnatal care in the first days after birth - the period when most maternal and infant deaths occur bit.ly/3iKPgV9
In 2022 WHO already responded to 7⃣4⃣ emergencies 🚨 around the 🌎🌍🌏
WHO launches an urgent appeal for funding to support:
✅ ongoing health emergencies
✅ humanitarian needs
✅ millions amongst the most vulnerable to lead dignified, healthier lives
In 2021 WHO:
✅ responded to 76 health emergencies
✅ delivered supplies & maintained essential health services in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Syria & Yemen
✅ helped fight #COVID19
✅ coordinated emergency response with over 1600 partners
✅ & much more
Funding is 🔑 to sustain these efforts, amidst ongoing crises globally.
The appeal for US$2.7 billion represents financial requirements for WHO in 2022 to cover all 6 Regions, & country-level emergency response operations, including for #COVID19.
WHO & the Government of #India🇮🇳 today agreed to establish the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine, to maximize the potential of traditional medicines through modern science and technology bit.ly/3iDIXCO
Around 80% of the world’s population is estimated to use traditional medicine.
To date, 170 of the 194 WHO Member States have reported the use of traditional medicine bit.ly/3iDIXCO
The term traditional medicine describes the knowledge, skills & practices indigenous & different cultures have used over time to maintain health and prevent, diagnose & treat physical and mental illness - from acupuncture, ayurvedic medicine, herbal mixtures to modern medicines.
#Tuberculosis - also known as TB - remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers.
Each day, over 4,100 people lose their lives to it & close to 28,000 people fall ill with this preventable & curable disease.
WHO is proactively supporting efforts to enable access to #tuberculosis care services for the people with TB, refugees and displaced populations at risk, including in Ukraine which has a high burden of drug-resistant TB bit.ly/36uasMm