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Together on road to evidence-informed decision-making for health in post-pandemic era
New Food Safety Community of Practice will help share knowledge and improve practice
Achieving 70% Covid Immunization Coverage by Mid-2022
Launch of WHO Bulletin theme issue on behavioural science
Seventh meeting of Multilateral Leaders Task Force on Covid Vaccines, Therapeutics and Diagnostics
Interim statement on booster doses for Covid vaccination 23 December
US FDA approved cabotegravir extended-release – first long-acting injectable option for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
WHO lists 10th Covid vaccine for emergency use: Nuvaxovid
Novavax Covid vaccine recommendations for use
WHO lists 9th Covid vaccine for emergency use with aim to increase access to vaccination in lower-income countries
Launch of UN Group of Friends on Neglected Tropical Diseases and on Support of Water
WHO in collaboration with GISAID organizes training workshops for laboratory experts
Dr Ayoade Alakija appointed WHO Special Envoy for ACT-Accelerator
National Opera of Ukraine “In Name of Life” concert in recognition of health workers
New WHO Global Competency Standards aim to strengthen health workforce and support provision of quality health services to refugees
OpenWHO.org: 2021 year in review
Another 249 trainees join global infodemic manager community
WHO and St. Jude to dramatically increase global access to childhood cancer medicines
Protect environment, World No Tobacco Day 2022 will give you one more reason to quit
Investing 1 dollar per person per year could save 7 million lives in low and lower-middle income countries
More than half billion people pushed or pushed further into extreme poverty due to health care costs
Two decades dedicated to capacity building for health emergency preparedness and response
Neglected tropical diseases: WHO launches survey to expand its offer of online training courses
WHO continues to support its conditional recommendation for dapivirine vaginal ring as an additional prevention option for women
WHO works to scale-up support to low- and middle-income countries to address antimicrobial resistance thanks to support from
WHO launches virtual survey to assess capacity strengthening needs and expand its offer of online courses
WHO and Global Fund warn inequalities block progress towards ending AIDS, TB and malaria
New partnership to combat antimicrobial resistance in gonorrhoea
Health in World of Work
Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: treating millions of people, despite pandemic
Collective Service: supporting RCCE in emergencies
WHO accelerates work on nutrition targets with new commitments
Countries with regulations protecting people from industrially produced trans fat tripled over past year
WHO recommends against use of convalescent plasma to treat Covid
WHO welcomes historic decision by Gavi to fund first malaria vaccine
More malaria cases and deaths in 2020 linked to Covid disruptions
Request for proposal: Technical support to SAGE executive secretariat
Ten steps to RCCE
Call for Papers: Health Policy and Systems Research for Rehabilitation
Collection of stories from field
Schistosomiasis: large-scale treatment decreases prevalence by 60% among school-aged children
Effective networking among public health laboratories in South-East Asia
South-East Asia: Influenza virus sharing in time of Covid
Critical evidence to strengthen seasonal vaccination in Americas
Global and regional support for 2021-2022 influenza season
Thailand’s response to NCDs: new case study published
It’s time for action on inequality to end TB and AIDS
World AIDS Day 2021 – Step up, be bold, end AIDS, end inequalities and end pandemics