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@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley @ACTAccelerator "All of these achievements, across the “triple billion” targets, have been supported by the new Divisions of Science and Data and Delivery for Impact, which we created in 2019"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley @ACTAccelerator "The Secretariat remains committed to supporting all Member States technically, operationally and logistically to continue responding to this pandemic, and to prepare for future health emergencies"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley @ACTAccelerator "This will build on our existing work by harnessing cutting-edge technologies and innovations in data science, and by fostering greater sharing of data and information between countries with a “collaborative intelligence” approach"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley @ACTAccelerator "We have introduced the Universal Health and Preparedness Review, which has now been tested successfully in four Member States: Central African Republic, Iraq, Thailand and Portgual, with support from a further 21 Member States"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley @ACTAccelerator "For the first time, we established a Division of Emergency Preparedness, which supported countries to prepare for thousands of mass gatherings, from the Olympic and Winter Olympic Games, to COP26 and the Dubai Expo"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "Through the @ACTAccelerator, WHO and our partners have delivered more than 1.5 billion vaccine doses, enabling 40 countries to begin their #COVID19 vaccination campaigns, as well as 159 million tests and $222 million worth of therapeutics"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "Since 2017, we have shipped more than US$1.6 billion worth of medical supplies all over the world, working with partners to support critical health emergency supply chains"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "As we speak, my colleagues are responding to more than 50 emergencies around the world. In many cases, WHO is the first to arrive and the last to leave"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "In the past five years, WHO has responded to more than 120 emergencies – cyclones, volcanoes, earthquakes, outbreaks, wars – and a pandemic. Some last a few months; some last for years"-@DrTedros #WHA72

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "Now to our work on emergencies. It’s clear that the world was – and remains – unprepared for a pandemic. Every month, WHO processes more than 9 million pieces of information, screens 43000signals, reviews 4500 events, and verifies an average of 30 events"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "Child survival has improved dramatically over the past 20 years, although 54 countries are off track to meet the @GlobalGoalsUN child survival targets"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "We’ve supported more than 40 countries to introduce HPV vaccines for the first time, as part of the #CervicalCancer Elimination Initiative.

And we have supported 31 more countries to integrate #mentalhealth services into primary health care"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "Over 3 million people in 18 countries have gained access to treatment for hypertension, with increasing use of the WHO HEARTS package of interventions. Over 30 countries have developed policies or programmes to improve access to childhood #cancer care"-@DrTedros #BeatNCDs #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "On noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), over the past five years WHO has supported 36 countries to integrate services to prevent, detect and treat NCDs into primary health care programmes, and we have supported 25 countries with rehabilitation services"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "And in 2020, the #AntimicrobialResistance Action Fund was set up to overcome funding barriers for antibiotic development. This year it made its first investments in the development of two antibacterials"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "The #AntimicrobialResistance Multi-Partner Trust Fund was established, and is now supporting 11 countries to implement their national action plans"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN @miaamormottley "Through WHO’s GLASS surveillance system, the number of countries collecting and sharing data on #AntimicrobialResistance has tripled, and we have seen a six-fold increase in the number of samples collected and analysed globally"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN "High-level political leadership is essential to address the threat of #AntimicrobialResistance (AMR), which is why we established Global Leaders Group for AMR, chaired by Prime Minister @miaamormottley of Barbados and Prime Minister Hasina of Bangladesh"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN "Our investments in #polio will not end when polio ends. The infrastructure & expertise we have built is already being used to deliver other vaccines & health services, incl. for #COVID19.
And we've made significant progress in our response to #antimicrobialresistance"-@DrTedros

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN "Since 2017, WHO and our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have provided 1.4 billion doses of #polio vaccines to Member States at no cost"-@DrTedros #EndPolio #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN "Our dream of a #polio-free world is tantalisingly close, with four cases of wild poliovirus reported so far this year in Afghanistan and Pakistan – although two new cases in Malawi and Mozambique are a setback"-@DrTedros #EndPolio #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN "And only 15 cases of #GuineaWorm disease were reported last year, compared with 3.5 million in the mid-1980s. Just two cases have been reported so far this year"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN "In the past five years, 14 additional countries and territories eliminated at least one neglected tropical disease.

Cases of African trypanosomiasis have declined by 90% in ten years"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN "Widespread use of this [#malaria] vaccine, as WHO recommended last year, could save tens of thousands of young lives, especially in Africa, every year"-@DrTedros #WHA75

@DrTedros @GlobalGoalsUN "Since 2012, nine more countries have been certified as #malaria free, and cases in the Greater Mekong have dropped by almost 90%. And for the first time, we have a malaria vaccine. More than 1 million children in 🇬🇭, 🇰🇪 & 🇲🇼 have now received at least one dose"-@DrTedros #WHA75