Loading...
| No images? Click here Friday 21.04.23 | Issue 200 Subscribe to receive this weekly updateWHO/ Noor Images/ Olga Kravets
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) updates World Health Day 2023 - 75 years of improving public health
24 -30 April 2023 World Immunization Week Under the theme ‘The Big Catch-up’, this year’s World Immunization Week will focus on the need to reach the millions of children who missed out on vaccines during the pandemic and highlight the successes of countries already on the road to recovery. A virtual on-the-record press briefing will be held on Monday 24 April at 1615 Geneva (CEST) with Dr Kate O'Brien, WHO Director of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals. Details to follow in a separate media invitation. Interviews with WHO immunization experts can be arranged throughout World Immunization Week. More details can be found here: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-immunization- 24 and 27 April 2023 Informal WHA76 pre-meeting for Member States and non-State actors In order to improve the involvement and contributions of non-State actors in official relation with WHO governing bodies, the 150th Executive Board decided that an informal pre-meeting for Member States, non-State actors in official relations and the Secretariat will be organized annually during the four to six weeks before the World Health Assembly, as outlined in the document EB150/37. The meetings are organized in addition to non-State actors’ regular participation in the WHO governing body meetings. This is the third edition of the informal meeting. 25 April 2023 World Malaria Day World Malaria Day 2023 will be observed April 25, under the theme “Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, implement”. Within this theme, WHO will focus on the third “i” – implement – and notably the critical importance of reaching marginalized populations with the tools and strategies that are available today. More information available here: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-malaria-day/2023 27 April 2023 4th progress report of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (SDG3 GAP) A new progress report will be released on April 27 by the 13 signatory agencies of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (SDG3 GAP). The fourth SDG3 GAP progress report will present key findings of the past four years of joint work by the agencies, reflecting on what has worked well and what can be further strengthened and will feed into the next United Nations General Assembly SDG Summit and the High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage in September. The report will be available at: https://www.who.int/initiatives/sdg3-global-action-plan. For other events of interest to media, click here: https://www.who.int/news-room/events/2 Sign up for our newsletters here. Check out the WHO series, Science in 5. Latest WHO Disease Outbreak News (DONs) here. Listen to Global Health Matters. Access WHO photos available for media use here. WHO Media contacts: You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list.
|
Loading...
Loading...
