Vaccination is 🔑 to achieve universal health coverage & #HealthForAll, & 1 of the 🌐’s most cost-effective public health interventions. Yet, under immunization is still common among refugees & migrants.
🆕 Global Evidence Review on Health & Migration:
📌 bit.ly/3nZF3Xj
For refugees & migrants, access to vaccination varies greatly across countries, based on their:
🔸 migratory status
🔸 age
🔸 context in which these populations live
🆕 Global Evidence Review on Health & Migration:
📌 bit.ly/3nZF3Xj
Refugees & migrants may face barriers 🚧 in accessing vaccines incl.:
🔸administrative & policy 🚧
🔸individual-level 🚧 like trust, cultural, religious, social norms & beliefs
🔸logistics 🚧
🔸information & communication 🚧
🔸financial 🚧
To ↗️ access to vaccination countries can:
🔹 Ensure universal & equitable access to vaccines for everyone
🔹 Strengthen health systems to provide catch-up vaccination for mobile populations
🔹 Strengthen data collection to monitor immunization coverage & service delivery gaps
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🆕 report describes all vaccines currently in development for priority bacterial pathogens ⬇️
#AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) occurs when:
🔸 bacteria
🔸 viruses
🔸 fungi
🔸 parasites
no longer respond to medicines, ↗️ the risk of disease spread, severe illness & death.
🆕 vaccines in development have the potential to impact AMR & save lives:
📌 bit.ly/3uH3Xic
Vaccines are highly effective tools in combating #AntimicrobialResistance by:
🎯 directly targeting resistant bacteria
🩹 reducing the incidence of both resistant & susceptible infections, thereby ⬇️ #antibiotic consumption, which is a 🔑 driver of AMR
"I am concerned that cases of #COVID19 continue to rise - putting further pressure on stretched health systems and health workers - and deaths are unacceptably high"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "The Emergency Committee on #COVID19 met on Friday last week and concluded that the virus remains a Public Health emergency of International Concern"-@DrTedros
The world is moving backwards in efforts to eliminate hunger & malnutrition with 828 million people affected by hunger globally in 2021: UN State of Food Security and Nutrition report bit.ly/3IhHXjw
An estimated 45 million children under five years old were suffering from wasting*, the deadliest form of malnutrition, which increases children’s risk of death by up to 12 times bit.ly/3IhHXjw
*wasting: when children are too thin for their height
149 million children under five years old had stunted* growth & development due to a chronic lack of nutritious food in their diets, while 39 million were overweight.
*stunting: when a child is too short for their age, due to a failure to grow both physically & cognitively
@DrTedros "Globally reported #COVID19 cases have increased nearly 30% over the past two weeks. 4 out of 6 of the WHO sub-regions saw cases increase in the last week"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "In Europe and America, BA.4 and BA.5 are driving waves. In countries like India a new sub lineage of BA.2.75 has also been detected which we’re following"-@DrTedros#COVID19
1 year ago, as the 🌐’s richest countries rolled out #COVID19 vaccines while the poorest countries watched on, WHO set an ambitious but attainable 🎯 to vaccinate 7⃣0⃣% of the population of every country by the mid-2022.
The deadline is upon us, have we achieved #VaccinEquity?
#COVID19 vaccination has saved almost 2⃣0⃣ million
lives in 2021 alone, according to a new study in @TheLancetInfDis
Hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been averted if the 🌎🌍🌏 had reached WHO's target to vaccinate 40% of the population of every country against #COVID19 by the end of 2021. Most of these lives could have been saved in low income countries:
👉 bit.ly/3OxL6y7