World Health Organization (WHO)
Our mission: Promote health, keep the world safe, serve the vulnerable. We are the United Nations' health agency. It's time for #HealthForAll
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LIVE from WHO: Director-General @DrTedros addresses the 40th anniversary of #smallpox eradication
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World Health Organization (WHO) LIVE from WHO: Director-General addresses the 40th anniversary of #smallpox eradication 58h
Universal health coverage (UHC)
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Fact sheet on Universal health coverage (UHC): key facts, what is UHC, benefits of implementing UHC and WHO response
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World Health Organization (WHO) As countries progress toward universal health coverage, more attention must be given to populations in fragile and conflict-affected settings, who are among the most vulnerable. We cannot leave anyone behind #HealthForAll #HealthForAll #HealthForAll 3d
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World Health Organization (WHO) Investing in strong #PrimaryHealthCare is one of the best ways to: -Help people lead the healthiest lives possible -If they get sick, provide the right care, at the right time, right in their communities. It`s time for #HealthForAll 3d
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World Health Organization (WHO) Universal health coverage is a political choice to strive for equity and justice in health. It means building health systems that put the poorest and most marginalized communities first, leaving no one behind #HealthForAll #HealthForAll #HealthForAll 4d
Global Spending on Health: A World in Transition
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Global Spending on Health: A World in Transition
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World Health Organization (WHO) New WHO report examines how countries progress towards financing #HealthForAll 3d
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World Health Organization (WHO) Public health spending – about 60% of global spending on health – grew 4.3% a year between 2000 and 2017 3d
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World Health Organization (WHO) Global spending on health continues to rise! Between 2000 and 2017, spending on health globally grew by 3.9% per annum on average while the broader economy grew only 3.0% 3d
Responding to food safety emergencies (INFOSAN)
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An increasingly interconnected global food supply means that risks posed by unsafe food have thepotential to rapidly evolve from a local problem to an international emergency. Ensuring food safety is therefore an important component to consider in...
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World Health Organization (WHO) The rapid globalization of food production and trade has increased the likelihood of international #foodsafety incidents involving contaminated food 4d
The right to health
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Health and human rights must always go hand in hand. People have a right to healthcare, and to be treated with dignity and respect when they access it. Yet, harmful laws, policies and practices – including discrimination and abuse directed against...
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World Health Organization (WHO) End coercion in #mentalhealth. We all have the same rights. We should aim for community inclusion, not institutionalization. Health is a human right. #StandUp4HumanRights  #HumanRightsDay 5d
More than 140,000 die from measles as cases surge worldwide
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Worldwide more than 140,000 people died from measles in 2018, according to new estimates from WHO and CDC. These deaths occurred as measles cases surged globally, amidst devastating outbreaks in all regions. Most deaths were among children under 5...
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World Health Organization (WHO) Babies and very young children are at greatest risk from #measles infections, with potential complications including pneumonia and encephalitis (a swelling of the brain), as well as lifelong disability - permanent brain damage, blindness or hearing loss 10d
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World Health Organization (WHO) Worldwide more than 140,000 people died from #measles in 2018: new WHO and estimates. Most deaths occurred among children under 5 years of age. Read more 👉🏼 10d
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World Health Organization (WHO) WHO and estimate that 86% of children globally received the first dose of #measles vaccine through their country’s routine vaccination services in 2018, and fewer than 70% received the second recommended dose 10d
Gavi Board approves new Ebola vaccine programme | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
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World Health Organization (WHO) WHO welcomes Board's decision to fund a global stockpile of #Ebola vaccines and extend support for #malaria vaccine pilots. This is a remarkable advance for public health. 10d
Assistive Health Technology (AHT)
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World Health Organization (WHO) WHO estimates that one billion people around the world need assistive technology but only 1 in 10 have access #ADay4All 11d
More pregnant women and children protected from malaria, but accelerated efforts and funding needed to reinvigorate global response, WHO report shows
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The number of pregnant women and children in sub-Saharan Africa sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets and benefiting from preventive medicine for malaria has increased significantly in recent years, according to the World Health Organization’s...
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World Health Organization (WHO) WHO World Malaria Report 2019🦟: The number of pregnant women 🤰 & children 👶 in sub-Saharan Africa sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets & benefiting from preventive medicine for #malaria has increased significantly in recent years👉 #EndMalaria 11d
Q&A on vaccines
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World Health Organization (WHO) FACT: Immunization helps children grow into healthy adults, and protects against disease 👉 #VaccinesWork 💪 12d
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World Health Organization (WHO) FACT: When vaccination rates are high, the wider community is protected. 👉 #VaccinesWork! 💪 12d
Climate risks to health are growing but prioritized funding lacking to safeguard human health from climate change
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Safeguarding human health from climate change impacts is more urgent than ever, yet most countries are not acting fully on their own plans to achieve this, according to the first global snapshot of progress on climate change and health.
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World Health Organization (WHO) Safeguarding human health from #ClimateChange impacts 🌪️🌊🔥🌞 is more urgent than ever, yet most countries are not acting fully on their own plans to achieve this, according to the WHO first global snapshot of progress on climate change & health 👉 #COP25 13d
Disability and health
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WHO fact sheet on disability and health provides key facts and information on unmet needs for health care, secondary conditions, how lives of disabled people affected, barriers to health care and WHO response.
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World Health Organization (WHO) Many people living with a disability 👨‍🦽👩‍🦽 don’t have access to adequate health services: Let’s work together to ensure people with disability enjoy the same rights as everyone else #ADay4All 13d
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World Health Organization (WHO) WHO is committed to including people with disability in the Universal Health Coverage agenda. #HealthForAll really means ALL! #ADay4All 12d
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World Health Organization (WHO) Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Over 1 billion people in the 🌏🌍🌎 experience some form of disability. Let's celebrate diversity & promote the human rights of people with disability. #ADay4All! 13d
5 Key Actions for COP25 to Bolster Global Health
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Air pollution and climate change are two sides of the same coin: both are largely caused by the same sources and have similar solutions. Ambitious climate action has the potential to both safeguard our health and future, and to reduce the yearly...
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World Health Organization (WHO) WHO and the global health community call on governments, businesses, institutions and financial actors to deliver an ambitious #COP25. Here 5 recommendations to boost #ClimateAction & protect our health 👉 13d
Prequalification
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WHO Prequalification was born from the need to supply quality-assured health products ― in-vitro diagnostics, active pharmaceutical ingredients, finished pharmaceutical products, immunization devices and vaccines ― particularly for use in low-income...
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World Health Organization (WHO) #WHOPrequalification verifies that a health product meets international quality standards. WHO prequalification covers: 💊medicines 💉 vaccines 🧫 in vitro diagnostics 🦟 vector control products 14d
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“I was born with HIV. I faced my first real struggles with HIV when I was a bubbly 9-year-old girl. Somehow word got around – even teachers started whispering behind my back. In high school, I met...
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World Health Organization (WHO) “I was born with HIV. We should remind ourselves that #HIV is not over. We need to defeat it together, leaving no one behind, particularly girls, women and young people.” 💬Consolata Achieng Opiyo, 28, #Kenya🇰🇪, youth and HIV advocate 14d
WHO Director-General praises bravery of health workers during visit to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following fatal attacks on Ebola responders
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World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today visited health workers affected by recent armed attacks on Ebola response staff that killed four outbreak responders and injured seven others in the eastern Democratic...
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World Health Organization (WHO) WHO Director-General, , today visited #healthworkers affected by recent armed attacks on #Ebola response staff that killed four outbreak responders and injured seven others in the eastern #DRC. 👉 14d
World Health Organization on Instagram: ““I became pregnant when I was 42. I was already on HIV treatment, so my baby was born without HIV. I was able to ask for and receive…”
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9,148 Likes, 50 Comments - World Health Organization (@who) on Instagram: ““I became pregnant when I was 42. I was already on HIV treatment, so my baby was born without HIV.…”
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World Health Organization (WHO) “Many women living with #HIV suffer silently. Many of them were denied a say in their own life choices and became sterilized by doctors. We need to keep on fighting.” 💬Baby Rivona Nasution, 52, #Indonesia, co-founder of Indonesian Positive Women Network 14d
World AIDS Day 2019
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Communities are a unique force behind the incredible success of the HIV response. Of the 37.9 million people living with HIV at the end of 2018, 79% received testing, 62% received treatment, and 53% had achieved suppression of the HIV virus with no...
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World Health Organization (WHO) This #WorldAIDSDay we celebrate the central role of communities – as highlighted in the first-ever declaration on Universal Health Coverage with its central focus on primary health care, tailored for and built through empowered & engaged communities. 14d
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World Health Organization (WHO) Every hour, nearly 30 adolescents 👧👦 get infected with #HIV. Adolescent girls👧 account for 3 in 4 new infections in this age group. Schools, youth services and health clinics need to be adolescent health friendly. 15d
Dead and injured following attacks on Ebola responders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Two attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have killed 4 workers responding to the Ebola outbreak and injured 5 others. The attacks occurred overnight on a shared living camp in Biakato Mines and an Ebola response coordination office in...
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World Health Organization (WHO) Two attacks in eastern #DRC have killed 4 workers responding to the #Ebola outbreak and injured 5 others 👉 17d
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World Health Organization (WHO) “We are heartbroken that people have died in the line of duty as they worked to save others. The world has lost brave professionals”[email protected] #Ebola #DRC 17d
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World Health Organization (WHO) In the last week, there were 7 cases of #Ebola in #DRC, down from a peak of over 120 per week in April 2019. 17d
Mercury and health
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WHO fact sheet on mercury and health: includes key facts, definitions, exposure, health effects, measures to reduce exposure, WHO response.
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World Health Organization (WHO) What is #mercury? 👉 18d
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World Health Organization (WHO) All humans are exposed to some level of #mercury, as it is contained many products 👉 17d
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World Health Organization (WHO) Exposure to #mercury – even small amounts – may cause serious health problems, and is a threat to the development of the child in utero and early in life. 17d