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Dr @MoetiTshidi on Building Momentum for Routine Immunization Recovery in #Africa
"4 key areas we must make significant progress:
✔️Identify & vaccinate all priority people
✔️Vaccinate every child in 🌍
✔️End outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases
✔️Sustain #polio-free status"
"It is my deep belief that the biggest injustice that exists today in the Security Council is the lack of at least one African permanent member of the Security Council... We have a Security Council that no longer corresponds to the reality of today's world. " - @antonioguterres
Nothing can stop the dedication of #polio vaccinators to ensure every eligible child receives their dose!💪🏾
This is Teko on his way to Tokoto, a village in #Togo🇹🇬 – the raining season had led to flooding of various rivers, yet he kept going. Polio vaccinators are heroes!
We can’t cure polio BUT we can prevent it! #Malawi 🇲🇼 + #Mozambique 🇲🇿 are joining forces in a synchronized vaccine campaign starting now at the most high-risk areas, given the recent #WildPolio cases in both countries. More than 7M children will be vaccinated in the coming days.
The long-awaited #malaria vaccine will benefit #Africa which shoulders the heaviest burden of the disease, if we can deliver it to the children who need it.
Working together, we must seize this opportunity to help get malaria progress back on track & improve child health 🚫🦟
From #Ebola & #cholera outbreaks to famine and food insecurity, the African Region🌍 is grappling with tough health & humanitarian crises.
Join @WHOAFRO tomorrow for a partners’ webinar on enhancing #healthsecurity to build a safer & healthier Africa. ➡️https://t.co/q7YYqHW6Le
Together, we can deliver a world 🌍 without #polio.
Join global leaders, polio eradication partners and donors on 18 October at #WHS2022 for the polio pledging moment as they commit the funding needed to #EndPolio everywhere, for good ✅
➡️ https://t.co/7uKtjvcPUl
@OMS_SENEGAL@sante_gouv_sn Also looking forward to WHO working with Senegal🇸🇳 to provide leadership for Gene Therapy for #HIV & #SickleCell Disease, as well as leadership for neighbouring countries of pool procurement of #NCD drugs.
“These very serious challenges to the health & welfare of African populations are why the intense ongoing global and national discussions to strengthen levels of readiness for future epidemics and pandemics are so critical.” – Dr @MoetiTshidi, @WHOAFRO Regional Director #RC72AFRO
As the @UN sexual and reproductive health agency, @UNFPA advocates for the right of individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children.
Our statement on restrictions to access to abortion: https://t.co/AvQqxUDfCB
#StandUp4HumanRights
Surveillance, vaccination and investment to #EndPolio 🌍 is critical, as the #UK's announcement of environmental #polio samples identified in London sewage reminds us. No child has been infected so far. @WHO is supporting 🇬🇧 and partners.
https://t.co/97zNVNUiBg
@WHO's new report details how the #polio workforce contributed to #COVID19 vaccination in 2021, assisted with vaccine delivery in Africa 🌍 & how the infrastructure must be sustained to support broader health. Read the report ➡️ https://t.co/ivEIRUH5vJ
#VaccinesWork#EndPolio
#Malawi's 🇲🇼 first round of #polio vaccinations is complete! Over 2.8 million children under 5 years old received the oral vaccine 👧🏿🧒🏿. @health_malawi, @WHO, @UNICEF, & GPEI @EndPolioNow are working together to make sure no child is left behind.