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🇰🇭 Tracking viruses before outbreaks grow.
WHO profiles Cambodia’s Institut Pasteur: poultry market sampling and genomic sequencing support avian influenza surveillance.
Sharing findings across human and animal health helps guide action.
#OneHealth
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🌡️ Climate forecasts can guide health preparedness.
WMO flags heat and water supply risks from warmer, drier conditions in Southeast Asia.
This is a seasonal outlook, not a forecast of individual disasters. Local forecasts matter.
#PublicHealth
https://t.co/usTDGNLWfk
🌏 HIV care starts with trust. A joint commentary published by WHO calls for stronger HIV action in the Pacific. Stigma and fear of disclosure still block access to testing and treatment. Community-led services matter alongside medicines. #HIV https://t.co/OyMK0jXXHm
💉 Vaccination must reach children on the move.
Somalia, WHO and UNICEF call for sustained investment in polio eradication and routine immunisation, including for displaced and mobile communities.
Protection should travel with them.
#PublicHealth
https://t.co/3hCvKWTCjs
Standardized per-capita outpatient costs varied more than twofold across ministries, from $19.8/month at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to $42.7/month at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW). At MHLW, mental and behavioural disorders accounted for the largest above-average cost component.
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💉 A few drops rely on a whole supply chain.
UNICEF highlights the vaccine management behind polio campaigns in West and Central Africa: supply, temperature control and tracking.
Protecting children takes reliable logistics too.
#PublicHealth
https://t.co/bC8T6DIpM7
🔬 Seeing polio through wastewater.
WHO highlights UK surveillance that can detect silent circulation. Findings help guide investigation and vaccination where needed.
Early warning matters when most infections cause no paralysis.
#PublicHealth
https://t.co/3u94K0o0K7
🩺 Blood pressure: what happens after the check matters.
WHO reports that 1 in 3 adults in the Western Pacific has hypertension, yet control rates remain below 20% in many countries.
Finding it is only the start. People need access to treatment they can continue.
#PublicHealth
https://t.co/H21mAOEuvx
WHO’s latest update on lead poisoning makes a practical point: testing helps identify exposure, but we also need to stop it happening. That means keeping lead out of everyday products and enforcing the rules already in place.
https://t.co/CN7iUbudqM