WHO Representative and Head of Country Office, WHO Country Office Armenia. Views = my own; RTs do not endorse the opinion
Yerevan, Armenia
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🙏Ambassador Maragos @EUAmbArmenia for the excellent discussion around -
🟢Advancing UHC & PHC, quality of care
🟢Health needs of refugees
🟢Mental health, rehabilitation & disability services
🟢Extending One Health approach
@EU_Armenia🤝@WHOArmenia
#UnitedActionForBetterHealth
"Youth" needs a meaningful engagement & @WHO_Europe & @WHO_Europe_VPI did exactly that - co-creating a dialogue on immunization with tomorrow's decision makers
📢Practical & real
📢Diving deep to craft out-of-the-box solutions
📢A shared responsibility
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🔴Exponential rise in measles cases in 2023
🔴9 measles-related deaths
👉With a safe & effective measles vaccine, no one should die from measles
💉Vaccination is a shared responsibility🤝
A 30-fold rise of measles cases in 2023 in the WHO European Region warrants urgent action
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Superb energy & enthusiasm at the groundbreaking event "Force for the future: Youth action 4 Immunization"
📢61 youth reps, 36 countries, 44 organizations
🟢remarkable contributions, inspiring ideas
🤝meaningful #Youth4Health engagement
💪joint effort
👣forward by @WHO_Europe_VPI
@WHO_Europe_VPI is in a dialogue with youth & young professionals on how to build a future by harnessing power of vaccines & vaccination
🤝It is fantastic to listen & learn from each of the participants on their experiences, views & opinions
🤝Reflections to follow
#Youth4Health
🙏Madam Minister @minhealthKZ for your leadership on:
🟢catch-up vaccination for measles outbreak
🟢preparing for HPV vaccination of girls
Great experience to see ongoing💉& actions in field🤝@WHO_Europe_VPI stands ready to support 🇰🇿 so that everyone gets the benefits of vaccine
Indeed a pleasure to be @TIPICOXI, Santiago de Compostela,🇪🇸 and "Shedding complex shades of vaccination to make it reachable in Europe" together with paediatricians & researchers.
Excellent deliberations during the entire workshop.
🙏@fedemartinon for your leadership @TIPICOXI
ALT Shedding the complex shades of vaccination to make it reachable in Europe; 11th Interactive Infectious Disease Workshop, Hot topics and green apples in infectious diseases
▶️It's time to integrate COVID-19 vaccination into broader health care delivery mechanisms to protect vulnerable populations
@WHO_Europe_VPI outlines pragmatic steps:
🟢Plan & prepare - Initiate/Build
🟢Implement & monitor
🟢Post-integration follow-up
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Ministry of Health 🇸🇮, Slovenian Medical Students International Committee- Project IMMUNO, Medical Chamber of Slovenia showed:
🤝stakeholders & experts are key to deliver immunization services
🤝innovation is key to⬆️population vaccine acceptance
#VaccinesWork #EveryDoseCounts
ALT European Immunization Week 2023 - Opportunity to discuss immunization priorities with State Secretary Ministry of Health Slovenia, NIPH Center for Infectious Diseases, Medical Chamber of Slovenia
🙏🇷🇸 to allow @WHO_Europe_VPI to convene immunization managers from Western Balkans➡️
👍Translate European Immunization Agenda 2030 into concrete action
👍Strengthen immunization system to achieve disease elimination & eradication
⏩Building a pragmatic & collective way forward💉
@WHO_Europe marked 2⃣0⃣ yrs being Polio free
🙏@hans_kluge @JenJonesRotary @NinaBerdzuli @EvaUNICEF for adding your voice to this success
How did we reach here➡️🟢Political leadership🟢Commitment by health professionals🟢Trust of parents🟢Partnership
@EndPolioNow @WHO_Europe_VPI
🙏 @JenJonesRotary & @Rotary for the invitation to Rotary Action Summit, Iceland. Partnership of @WHO_Europe & @Rotary is a testament of our determination to @EndPolioNow – at Iceland
@drssdatta @Rotary Action Summit @JenJonesRotary
To end #polio we have to stay the course together through continued:
Determination
Adaptation
Opportunities
💉@eu_near 🤝 @WHO_Europe bring #Covid19 & routine vaccines closer to people
👏Efforts not to leave anyone behind
🙏@eu_near & @WHO_Europe_VPI
#StrongerTogether #Vaccineswork
Thank you 🇪🇺 Commissioner @OliverVarhelyi for the continued trust in the @eu_near & @WHO_Europe partnership to support countries in their response to #COVID19 & strengthen national #vaccination systems. #StrongerTogether #RC72 #RC72TLV
Full message here👉bit.ly/3RD0aMk
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✅🇮🇪 designed "TrackVax" - an innovative #COVID19 vaccine tracking system to ensure no doses go to waste
🟢Ireland rose to the challenge to safe, effective vaccine rollout - Indeed, Dr Lucy Jessop 👏
🙏@HSEImm for sharing this with @WHO_Europe_VPI 👇
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👏1.63 billion #CovidVaccine doses administered in @WHO_Europe
⏩68% got 1 dose
⏩64% got complete dose series
⏩30% got an additional dose
🔴Means 32% remain unprotected
🟢Let us do our part to protect the most vulnerable
Tools are here👇
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@WHO_Europe_VPI
💪capacity to📈COVID-19 vaccine uptake to improve routine immunization service delivery -🇦🇿 prepares its "health-care providers of tomorrow"
🙏@healthgovaz @tabibgovaz for sharing insights with @WHO_Europe_VPI @WHOAzerbaijan
🙏@eu_near @EU_Health @KeJankauskas for the partnership
"Dealing with villagers & community members directly was very new to all of us. I found being a bridge between doctors and villages was a wonderful experience," says Leyla, who participated in hands-on training on immunization in rural 🇦🇿. Full story 👇 bit.ly/3CvEDQT
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💠Recognition, Trust, Availability
💠Science, Trust, Guidance
💠Involve, Share, Act
💠Cooperation, Gift, Care
Micro-influencers in 🇵🇹 show how to build confidence in COVID-19 vaccination
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🙏@saude_pt @DGSaude for sharing the insights with @WHO_Europe_VPI
Everyone can disseminate reliable and trustworthy information
👏 Pharmacies in🇲🇩 are providing reliable information on #COVID19 vaccination to improve uptake
🙏300 pharmacists & 110 pharmacies for your leadership
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@WHOMoldova @eu_near @WHO_Europe_VPI
Countries in @WHO_Europe walk an extra step to leave no community behind to provide #COVID19 vaccines
Catalonia in 🇪🇸 shows the way:
✅Culturally appropriate intervention built on trust
✅Identifying & removing barriers
@SaludPublicaEs @WHO_Europe_VPI
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💉From "Check & offer" to "IPV campaign"
🔹addressing vaccination inequalities
🔹environmental surveillance
🔹enhanced surveillance of paralytic polio presentations
🙏Demonstrable commitment of 🇬🇧 to keep @WHO_Europe #polio free
#VaccinesWork @EndPolioNow
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