ENLACE is a new PAHO tool linking #DatatoAction 📊 📈, helping visualize key indicators for preventing and controlling #NCDs and their risk factors 🚬 🥤 🥃 , mental health, violence & injuries.
Learn more ⬇️
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🆕 @WHO report reveals tonnes of extra medical supplies from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic have put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems, threatening human & environmental health & exposing a need to improve disposal practices.
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In Latin America and the Caribbean, 255 babies age less than one-month die each day.
The “28 Days, Time to Care & Love” campaign seeks to raise awareness & promote quality care for newborns during the #first28days of life to reduce neonatal mortality.
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The #COVID19 virus spreads from person to person through close contact and spreads quickly in crowded settings, closed spaces with poor ventilation, or prolonged contact with an infected person.
#DoItAll to stay protected ✅ https://t.co/ILm3LQZY6N
🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY
Passionate about reducing #NCDs risk factors and improving nutrition in the Americas 🌎? Join our team!
We are searching 🔎 for a Unit Chief for Risk Factors and Nutrition.
View the job description here ➡️ careers.who.int/careersection/…
Join the launch event of the @WHO publication: “Global Analysis of Health Care Waste in the Context of Covid-19: Status, Impacts and Recommendations.”
🗓 1 Feb
⏰ 7 AM (EST)
Register here 👉🏽 who.zoom.us/webinar/regist… https://t.co/cJsAEbUEnX
Hydatidosis is a neglected tropical disease acquired from consuming parasite eggs found in contaminated food, water or soil.
It can also affect dogs, sheep, and other animals 🐐 🐑
👇 Learn more about hydatidosis #WorldNTDDay
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Stay safe during #Heatwaves 🌡
Check on family, friends, and neighbors who live alone periodically📲.
Ensure they have emergency phone numbers to call in case of an emergency 🚨 https://t.co/cYyL0T4TTX
Access to essential healthcare services 🏥 is necessary to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases, like Chagas.
Working together, we can end preventable diseases entirely.
Learn more about #NTDs 👉🏼 paho.org/en/campaigns/w…
Interruptions to neglected tropical diseases interventions and elimination programs in the Americas 🌎 from the COVID-19 pandemic may delay eliminating or controlling some of these diseases beyond the timelines proposed pre-pandemic. #WorldNTDDay
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