Global Health NGN

📢Are you interested in building a career in #GlobalHealth? Be prepared to be inspired by an extraordinary lineup of speakers at the Global Health Career Dive on December 1st! 🤗 Register here for online and in-person participation 👉 ghngn.org/activities-car… See you there!✨

It’s #WorldMalariaDay! New vaccines against diseases like malaria are safe and effective in preventing malaria in children. Let's show the world what’s #HumanlyPossible and end malaria. #WorldImmunizationWeek

📢Exciting news: Registration for #WHS2024 from Oct. 13-15 in Berlin is now open! 🌍Get ready to dive into #globalhealth topics under the theme 'Building Trust for a Healthier World'. 🔹Secure your spot now & benefit from early-bird rates until July 31. Special offers for students and participants from low- and middle-income countries are available. See you in October at this year's World Health Summit in Berlin. ➡️All info and registration: worldhealthsummit.org

#WorldAIDSDay 2023🌍"The ultimate goal is that we get to a point where every country is able to pay for their own AIDS response and that that AIDS response is human rights based, person-centered." said @SteglingC of @UNAIDS during #WHS2023. All recordings: youtube.com/worldhealthsum…

📢It's today! Hope to see many of you in-person or online ☺️

Tomorrow🙌🙌 Hope to see many of you there!

Don't forget to register for our Global Health Career Dive🙌 📆 1st December, 15-18:30 -In-person -Online There's still time to register here👉ghngn.org/activities-car…

📢We are hosting a Global Health Career Dive the 1st of December! Register here for in-person or online attendance 👉 ghngn.org/activities-car… Meet the speakers⬇️⬇️

Join us at the Global Health Career Dive in Barcelona on Dec 1st or virtually! Meet outstanding speakers & explore careers in #GlobalHealth. Don't miss this networking opportunity! See you there! #CareerDevelopment

Don't forget to sign up for our event: Global Health Career Dive🙌 You can register here: ghngn.org/activities-car… It will be in-person if you are in Barcelona and online✨ Don't miss a great opportunity to network!

Risk of disease spread soars in #Gaza as health facilities, water and sanitation systems disrupted As deaths and injuries in Gaza continue to rise due to intensified hostilities, intense overcrowding and disrupted health, water, and sanitation systems pose an added danger: the rapid spread of infectious diseases. Some worrying trends are already emerging. Lack of fuel has led to the shutting down of desalination plants, significantly increasing the risk of bacterial infections like diarrhea spreading as people consume contaminated water. Lack of fuel has also disrupted all solid waste collection, creating an environment conducive to the rapid and widespread proliferation of insects, rodents that can carry and transmit diseases. The situation is particularly concerning for almost 1.5 million displaced people across Gaza, especially those living in severely overcrowded shelters with poor access to hygiene facilities and safe water, increasing risk of infectious diseases transmission. @UNRWA, WHO, and the Ministry of Health are scaling up a flexible disease surveillance system in many of these shelters and health facilities.  The current disease trends are very concerning. Since mid-October 2023, over 33,551 cases of diarrhea have been reported. Over half of these are among children under age five—a significant increase compared to an average of 2000 cases monthly in children under five throughout 2021 and 2022. 8944 cases of scabies and lice, 1005 cases of chickenpox, 12635 cases of skin rash, and 54,866 cases of upper respiratory infections have also been reported. Disrupted routine vaccination activities, as well as lack of medicines for treating communicable diseases, further increase the risk of accelerated disease spread. This is compounded by incomplete coverage of the disease surveillance system, including early disease detection and response capacities.  Limited internet connectivity and phone system functioning further constrain our ability to detect potential outbreaks early and respond effectively. In health facilities, damaged water and sanitation systems and dwindling cleaning supplies have made it almost impossible to maintain basic infection prevention and control measures.  These developments substantially increase the risk of infections arising from trauma, surgery, wound care and childbirth.  Immunosuppressed individuals, such as patients with cancer, are especially at risk of complicating infections.  Insufficient personal protective equipment means that health care workers themselves can acquire and transmit infections while providing care to their patients.  The management of medical waste at hospitals has been severely disrupted, further increasing exposure to hazardous materials and infection. WHO calls for urgent, accelerated access for humanitarian aid – including fuel, water, food, and medical supplies – into and throughout the Gaza Strip. All parties to the conflict must abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including health care.   WHO calls for the unconditional release of all hostages and a humanitarian ceasefire to prevent further death and suffering.

📢Are you interested in building a career in #GlobalHealth? Come to our Global Health Career Dive and learn from professionals in the field✨ It will be in person and online! Register here or using the QR code 👉ghngn.org/activities-car

Second day at @WorldHealthSmt with @GlobalHealthNGN I attended talks on women's cancer & inequalities, health system resilience in fragile and conflict-affected countries, and Universal Health Coverage.

🌍#WHS2023 Takeaways: "The way the tables are being broadened and more seats are being brought in, so that we can have those truly important and increasingly inclusive conversations for the benefit of everyone that we aim to serve." said Loyce Pace @HHS_ASGA of @HHSGov

“The face of climate change is health” @DrMariaNeira #WHS2023 @GlobalHealthNGN

Great first day at the @WorldHealthSmt in Berlin representing @GlobalHealthNGN Key takeaways: 1️⃣We need sustainable and predictable health financing 2️⃣Innovations for data collection are still in their infancy 3️⃣We need more conversations around SDH #WHS2023

Closing the gender equality gap: ▫️For women’s health, we need functioning systems and a holistic view. ▫️Access to education and leadership positions ▫️Explicit policy and framing metrics ▫️Accountability for delivery #WHS2023 @GlobalHealthNGN

Really inspiring words by @SaniaNishtar ‘Stand your ground, follow your passion and develop your skills’ ✨ #WHS2023 @GlobalHealthNGN

#WHS2023 @GlobalHealthNGN

Jarbas Barbosa @DirOPSPAHO “Collaboration framework agreement between PAHO and WHO European region” ▫️Looking for health solutions between a transatlantic collaboration ▫️Building bridges #WHS2023 @GlobalHealthNGN