Data capturing and processing are vital for robust immunization campaigns. WHO donated IT equipment to the Federal Directorate of Immunization to accelerate digitization, and for effective data management and sharing.

This is what we need to #EndTB :
🫁Restore access to essential TB services
↗️Increase investments in #tuberculosis
✅Address broader socioeconomic determinants influencing TB epidemic
👩🏽‍🔬Advance TB research & innovation
🆕Diagnostics
🆕Drugs
🆕Vaccines

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Invasive fungal infections often affect severely ill patients & those with significant underlying immune- related conditions, incl.:
🔸 #cancer
🔸HIV/AIDS
🔸chronic respiratory disease
🔸post-primary #tuberculosis infection

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Imagine having thrush that cannot be treated❓

When fungi that cause common infections become more resistant to treatment, the risks of contracting invasive infections also rise.

Treatments working less well is a global problem for all of us 😱

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💧 Water is life.
💧 Water is a basic human right.

But an estimated 2⃣ billion people, one-quarter of the 🌎🌍🌏 world's population, do not have access to safe drinking water 🚰

📷 UNICEF

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'Realising our vision for the highest attainable standard of health starts not in the clinic or the hospital, but in schools, streets, supermarkets, households and cities, and especially in our homes.' - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General

#RCM73

The #polio programme works to ensure every village is mapped during the microplanning process ahead of vaccination campaign to ensure no child is missed.

#TogetherWeEndPolio
#HealthForAll_ByAll

When a child presents with Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP), health workers report this and then liaise with the families concerned to launch an investigation into whether or not the child has #polio .

#TogetherWeEndPolio
#WorldPolioDay #HealthForAll_ByAll

Once the wastewater samples have been collected, surveillance officers package each sample carefully to be transported to the lab to confirm whether #polioviruses are present.

#TogetherWeEndPolio #EndPolio
#HealthForAll_ByAll

The number of children paralysed by #polio has dropped drastically since the eradication effort began in 1988 but paralytic polio remains a risk to children everywhere until poliovirus has been snuffed out completely.

#TogetherWeEndPolio #HealthForAll_ByAll

Once a child is vaccinated during a #polio campaign, health workers mark their little finger to show they have received protection during that particular vaccination activity.

#TogetherWeEndPolio
#WorldPolioDay
#HealthForAll_ByAll

It's #WorldPolioDay

To end #polio for good, everyone needs to play their part

Surveillance for polioviruses is key. Across the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) Region, there are environmental surveillance sites from where polio health workers collect wastewater for detecting polio

#TogetherWeEndPolio

Regular physical activity is good for hearts, bodies and minds. Countries can and must do more to develop policies that enable their populations to #BeActive & move physically, more safely & more frequently.

Here’s how 👉bit.ly/3EUrsua

It's #BreastCancer Awareness Month

If you notice changes to your breasts, such as a lump, pitting of the skin or pain, go and see a health practitioner for a check-up.

Most breast lumps are not cancerous. Those that are, can be more effectively treated if identified early.

It’s #BreastCancer Awareness Month.

#BreastCancer survival rates should not vary based on location. Yet, they do.

People living in low- and middle-income countries have lower breast #cancer survival rates and are more severely impacted by the disease.

This needs to change❗️

#WHO donated 2 water #filtration plants to DHQ Kambar and Civil #Hospital Dadu to provide safe and clean drinking #water to the #flood affected people in Dadu and Kambar as water borne diseases are on rise due to non availability of safe drinking water

#WHO Pakistan Representative Dr Palitha Mahipala hands over #medicines , essential medical supplies, #nutritional supplements & labor room equipment to DG Health #Sindh Dr Juman Bahoto to strengthen #health services in the flood affected areas of Sindh.

Talking to media, #WHO Representative in 🇵🇰 Dr Palitha said that Emergency Operations Center will be functional to strengthen the flood response in province.WHO has planned to establish 13 Nutrition Stabilization Centers & 23 MCH centers in calamity hit districts of Balochistan