RT @PAHOCaribbean: The National CODEX Committee Guyana 🇬🇾 in collaboration with the, Ministry of Health, Food and Drugs Department, and PAH…
RT @WHO: LIVE: Media briefing with @DrTedros on #malaria vaccine recommendations. #EndMalaria twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
So, in the months ahead, as countries revisit their health budgets, rethink how they deliver health care and engage in global efforts to prevent the next pandemic 🦠
The cost of preventing a pandemic is much less than the cost of responding to one.
COVID-19 🦠 alone has caused a loss of US$4 trillion dollars in global GDP, and we’re not yet out of the woods.
… including
✳️ zoonotic diseases
✳️ food safety
✳️ anti-microbial resistance
✳️ climate change
Recently, Ministers of Health at our Directing Council approved a new “One Health” policy that outlines a blueprint for countries to bring together experts and officials from across sectors to address some of the most challenging issues of our time…
The economies of many countries in the Americas 🌎 also rely heavily on agricultural production and exportation, so the threat of animal diseases looms large and has the potential to impact entire industries and national development.
This is especially critical in a region like our own, which has tropical zones with high potential to harbor new diseases 🦠, like the Amazon Basin, Gran Chaco, the Lacandon Jungle, the Darien Isthmus, and La Mosquitia.
That’s why it’s crucial that pandemic 🦠 plans and policies reflect the expertise and recommendations of 👉🏽 public health, 👉🏽 animal health and 👉🏽 environmental sectors.
