In 2021 @WHO and our partners will tackle many pressing health challenges including helping countries improve emergency preparedness; strengthen their health systems; and protect at-risk populations. Here are 10 ways we will do this: bit.ly/2Jjxbzf
No toilets in our "world beating" Nightingale hospitals. We could have told you that toilets are essential.. we have been shouting about that for 30 years #wash#sanitation#healthcare#jmp
No toilets in our "world beating" Nightingale hospitals. We could have told you that toilets are essential.. we have been shouting about that for 30 years #wash#sanitation#healthcare#jmp
Globally, 3 billion people do not have access to hand hygiene facilities at home. #COVID19 provides an opportunity to address these gaps, mobilize resources and develop country roadmaps in line with the Global Hand Hygiene for All recommendations.
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People living in poverty are not only more vulnerable to antibiotic resistance, but are also less able to prevent or treat resistant infections.
#AntibioticResistance accelerates the vicious circle of poverty and infectious diseases.
#EndPoverty#SDG1#KeepAntibioticsWorking
We rightly spend a lot of time talking about the growing importance of non-communicable diseases, but we should still be shocked at the massive neglect of disease among newborn children. Top cause of disease burden in 1990. And still so in 2019. A matter for global shame.
"#COVID19 has built a fresh appreciation for clean water & soap in those of us fortunate enough to have access to them" - but 3 billion people lack access. On Global #Handwashing Day, please read this great piece by my colleague Bruce Gordon & Ray Norman: bit.ly/2H9Pup0
#GlobalHandwashingDay October 15, a day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives “Clean hands for all” #HealthForAll
#GlobalHandwashingDay October 15, a day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives “Clean hands for all” #HealthForAll
Today is #GlobalHandwashingDay🧼
Washing your hands regularly with 🧼 and 💦 is one of the most important and most basic steps keeping safe from #COVID19 and many other pathogens.
Thanks @DisneyJunior's Doc McStuffins for this cute video!
It’s #GlobalHandwashingDay! Let’s make this simple act the norm everywhere to keep us, our loved ones and our communities healthy! Hand washing with soap reduces diarrheal diseases, acute respiratory infections & is key to protect against #COVID19#nimenawa#HandHygieneforAll
It’s #GlobalHandwashingDay! Let’s make this simple act the norm everywhere to keep us, our loved ones and our communities healthy! Hand washing with soap reduces diarrheal diseases, acute respiratory infections & is key to protect against #COVID19#nimenawa#HandHygieneforAll
Look at these photos.
Look at them hard.
These are the photos that will make the history books.
Healthcare workers in Denver blocking the anti-stay-at-home protestors.
In fact, handwashing with soap is one of the most important things each of us can do to slow human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 in our communities, homes, health care facilities, schools, and other public spaces. blogs.worldbank.org/water/handwash… via @WorldBankWater
Katie is a young doctor working in a London hospital. Read her account of what it’s like helping those with Covid19. She has strong advice for us all. And she desperately wants a phone company to give free mobiles to patients isolated from their families facebook.com/14982767671637…
Caroline Chisenga from @cidrzinfo talking about her study looking at the impact of WASH and WASH related disorders on vaccine effectiveness #WASHTwitter#vaccines
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22 Followers 494 Followingयहां आपको त्योहार और दिवस और प्रसिद्ध व्यक्ति का जन्मदिन मिलेगा एवं प्रसिद्ध व्यक्ति की पुण्यतिथि एवं राष्ट्रीय घटनाएं और अंतर्राष्ट्रीय घटनाए मिलेगी🙏
68 Followers 903 FollowingCLEAN THE WORLD WITH COMPASSION’s main mission is to break the cycle of poverty, eliminate the marginalization and protect the nature for healthy world.
329 Followers 2K FollowingLife is one way road, return impossible, forward giving so difficult.
So focus your dream, trust God and move on.
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1.1M Followers 136 FollowingThis account is run by Hat Trick, who make HIGNFY. The BBC have asked us to point out it's nothing to do with them; the twitter feed that is, not the TV show.
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Don't like when my government abets genocide 🍉
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3K Followers 0 FollowingGlobal Handwashing Day will be the centerpiece of a week of activities that will mobilize millions of people in more than 70 countries across all five continent
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3K Followers 408 FollowingRegional Director @unicefrosa. Working #ForEveryChild in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
5K Followers 639 FollowingWe promote and share learning on handwashing with soap as key to health and development. Sign up for SoapBox: https://t.co/bTLzhsOJ4E
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