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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 9

    WHO Situation Report on , & syndrome (8 June 2016)

    , , and 2 others
    9:00 AM - 9 Jun 2016 · Details
    150 retweets 76 likes
  2. Jun 11

    requested that WHO develop indicators to track progress toward integrated people-centred health services

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    54 retweets 44 likes
  3. Jun 11

    Integrated people-centred care means putting people and communities, not diseases, at the centre of health systems

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    144 retweets 106 likes
  4. Jun 11

    adopted the WHO Framework on Integrated, People-Centred Health Services

    10:59 AM - 11 Jun 2016 · Details
    40 retweets 32 likes
  5. Jun 11

    urged WHO's Member States to increase funding for the observatory, and to strengthen their own national R&D observatories

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    34 retweets 21 likes
  6. Jun 11

    agreed to accelerate the development of the WHO Global Observatory on Health Research & Development in order to identify gaps in R&D

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    59 retweets 51 likes
  7. Jun 11

    Access to medicines & vaccines is one of the cornerstones of univ health coverage, critical to the achievement of the health-related SDGs

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    90 retweets 67 likes
  8. Jun 11

    agreed develop ways to forecast, avert and reduce medicine and vaccine shortages

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    48 retweets 45 likes
  9. Jun 11

    agreed a range of measures aimed at addressing the global shortage of medicines and vaccines, especially for children

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    40 retweets 39 likes
  10. Jun 11

    appears to mainly affect poor agricultural labourers and herdsmen

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    28 retweets 14 likes
  11. Jun 11

    adopted a resolution on mycetoma, a chronic, progressively destructive inflammatory disease of the skin, tissue, muscle and bone

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    45 retweets 35 likes
  12. Jun 10

    More than 1 million sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are acquired every day worldwide

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    131 retweets 50 likes
  13. Jun 10

    The STI strategy specifically emphasizes the need to scale up prevention, screening & surveillance, esp for adolescents & other at-risk pop

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    82 retweets 72 likes
  14. Jun 10

    The strategy introduces the first-ever global targets for viral hepatitis incl a 30% reduction in new cases of hep B & C by 2020

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    112 retweets 84 likes
  15. Jun 10

    The strategy aims to further accelerate the expansion of access to antiretroviral therapy to all people living with HIV

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    95 retweets 71 likes
  16. Jun 10

    adopted 3 global health sector strategies on: HIV, viral hepatitis & sexually transmitted infections for the period 2016-2021

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    79 retweets 53 likes
  17. Jun 9

    Just delivered food, nutrition, health, medical, WASH & education supplies in with

    7:25 PM - 9 Jun 2016 · Details
    171 retweets 231 likes
  18. Jun 10

    WHO, , & other partners just delivered life-saving medical supplies to

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    Just delivered food, nutrition, health, medical, WASH & education supplies in with
    28 retweets 43 likes
  19. Jun 10

    Here is the latest WHO situation report (9 June 2016)

    12:17 AM - 10 Jun 2016 · Details
    100 retweets 61 likes
  20. Jun 8

    Communities are at the heart of the fight against in .

    7:17 AM - 8 Jun 2016 · Details
    30 retweets 25 likes
  21. Jun 9

    In , WHO & are training volunteers to help people get vaccinated and prevent

    2:21 PM - 9 Jun 2016 · Details
    39 retweets 38 likes

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