Violence against women remains one of the world’s most pervasive human rights violations, affecting women and girls in every community, at every age.

🔸 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime.

#EndViolence #NoExcuse #16Days #WHOFides

How you can take action:

✔ Raise awareness of health care attacks & risks to humanitarian workers.
✔ Advocate for leaders to uphold international humanitarian law.
✔ Support trusted humanitarian organizations with funding or volunteering

Saving lives shouldn't cost lives

#WHOFides #ActForHumanity

**World Hepatitis Day 2025: Hepatitis: Let’s Break It Down**
#WorldHepatitisDay #LetsBreakItDown #HepatitisAwareness #PublicHealth #SDG3 #HepatitisElimination #VaccinesWork #WHOFides #HealthForAll

**World Hepatitis Day 2025: Hepatitis: Let’s Break It Down**
#WorldHepatitisDay #LetsBreakItDown #HepatitisAwareness #PublicHealth #SDG3 #HepatitisElimination #VaccinesWork #WHOFides #HealthForAll

World Blood Donor Day 2025 On World Blood Donor Day, celebrated on 14 June 2025, WHO, its partners and communities across the world will unite behind the theme: Give blood, give hope: together we save lives.

Every single 🩸 donation can make a difference for someone's life, just one donation could save 3 lives!
Learn more: bit.ly/4kXZ3VT
#WorldBloodDonorDay
#WHOFides

👉🏻 With proper protection, 4 out of 5 cases of skin cancer could be prevented. 

#SkinCancerAwareness #WHOFides

How to protect yourself:
🔆 Watch for the UV index, and use sun protection when it’s 3 or higher.
🚫 Avoid direct sun exposure (10am - 2pm.
🧢 Wear tightly woven clothing, hats, sunglasses.
🧴 Apply broad-spectrum SPF 30+ sunscreen: reapply often.

#SkinCancerAwareness #WHOFides

☀️ Ultraviolet radiation (UVR), from the sun or sunbeds, is the main cause of skin cancer.
☢️ UVR is a proven human carcinogen, harmful to the skin, eye, & immune system.
♨️ Sunburns & intense UV exposure, especially during childhood, greatly ⬆️ the risk of skin cancer.

#SkinCancerAwareness #WHOFides

Skin Cancer Awareness Month 2025 | 1-31 May

Skin cancer is the most frequent type of cancer in fair-skinned populations, with over *1.5 million* new cases of skin cancer being diagnosed every year. 

#SkinCancerAwareness #WHOFides #MedSky

#Didyouknow
➡️ An average university hospital generates 1,634 tons of healthcare waste each year.

Read more: lnkd.in/dfAVusHm

#handhygiene
#WHOFides
#WorldHandHygieneDay
#HandHygieneDay

#Didyouknow
➡️ Approximately 70% of healthcare workers do not routinely practice hand hygiene.

➡️ Currently 68% of countries are in compliance with hand hygiene as a key national indicator.

Read more: lnkd.in/dfAVusHm

#handhygiene
#WHOFides
#WorldHandHygieneDay
#HandHygieneDay

World Hand Hygiene Day 2025: It might be gloves. It's always hand hygiene.
#Didyouknow
➡️ Healthcare-associated infections are one of the most common problems in healthcare, affecting about 1 in 10 patients on average.

Read more: lnkd.in/dfAVusHm
#handhygiene
#WHOFides
#WorldHandHygieneDay

World Hand Hygiene Day 2025: It might be gloves. It's always hand hygiene. World Hand Hygiene Day is observed every year on 5 May to promote and improve adherence to hand hygiene practices in health care settings, thereby protecting health care workers and patients from infe...

World Hand Hygiene Day 2025: It might be gloves. It's always hand hygiene.
publichealthupdate.com/world-hand-h...
#handhygiene #WHOFides #WorldHandHygieneDay #HandHygieneDay

Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements with at least 154 million lives

Despite ignorant and fearful rhetoric, all communities deserve protection against vaccine-preventable diseases
less disease = more life
@who.fides
#VaccinesWork #HumanlyPossible #WHOFides

World Malaria Day 2025 On 25 April, World Malaria Day 2025 will be marked under the theme Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite

💪️ Ending malaria is not just a health imperative; it’s an investment in a more equitable, safer and prosperous future for every nation.

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/42ObeNG

#WorldMalariaDay #WHOFides

🤰🏽 Today is #WorldHealthDay, and we're championing the health of mothers and newborns.

🌎 Around the world, millions of lives are lost each year due to causes that could be prevented with timely, quality care.

#HopefulFutures #WHOFides

विश्व स्वास्थ्य दिवस २०२५: स्वस्थ शुरुवात, समृद्ध भविष्य 🇳🇵
७ अप्रिल,२०२५
World Health Day 2025: Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures!
7 April 2025
#WorldHealthDay #HopefulFutures #WHOFides #HealthForAll #UniversalHealthCoverage #LeaveNoOneBehind #PublicHealth

विश्व स्वास्थ्य दिवस २०२५: स्वस्थ शुरुवात, समृद्ध भविष्य 🇳🇵
७ अप्रिल,२०२५
World Health Day 2025: Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures!
7 April 2025
#WorldHealthDay #HopefulFutures #WHOFides #HealthForAll #UniversalHealthCoverage #LeaveNoOneBehind #PublicHealth

World Health Day 2025 World Health Day 2025 "Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures" is a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. The campaign urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end pre...

This #WorldHealthDay, we're championing the health of mothers and newborns.
🌎 Around the world, millions of lives are lost each year due to causes that could be prevented with timely, quality care.
Learn more: www.who.int/campaigns/wo...
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World Tuberculosis Day 2025: ‘Yes! We Can End TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver'
Read more: lnkd.in/d8gSdWei

#EndTB #WHOFides #WorldTBDay #WorldTBDay2025 #YesWeCanEndTB #tuberculosis #tuberculosisawareness #PublicHealth #PublicHealthUpdate

World TB Day 2025 The theme of World TB Day 2025: Yes! We can end TB! Commit, Invest, Deliver

🫁 Tuberculosis (TB) is preventable. With the right actions, we can stop TB transmission and save lives.

🏥 Seek medical attention if you have symptoms like prolonged cough, fever and unexplained weight loss

📎 Learn more: bit.ly/4hwM4Zd

#EndTB #WHOFides

Andrew Grech on LinkedIn: #worldobesityday #whofides #childhealth #sobauk #neonatal #anesthesia… 🌍 World Obesity Day 2025 📢 More than 1 in 8 people globally live with obesity, including many children and young people. Obesity is a complex, chronic…

#WorldObesityDay 🌏

🧒 Children living with obesity face unique challenges. The Society for Bariatric Anaesthesia (SOBA UK) has recently updated guidance on anaesthesia for children with obesity, ensuring safe & tailored perioperative care. Read more here: 🔗 lnkd.in/dk4bQvrz

#WHOFides #AnSky #PedSky

#WorldHearingDay👂

Hearing loss can make hospital experiences (especially anaesthesia 😷) more frightening.

🔹 Recognise it
🔹 Keep aids in until patient asleep whenever possible
🔹 Prioritise aid reinsertion ASAP or before waking up

Small changes ➡️ huge difference.

#AnSky #WHOFides #PedSky

Andrew Grech on LinkedIn: #rarediseaseday #globalhealth #whofides #neonatal #anesthesia #anaesthesia… Today, on World Rare Disease Day 🌍, we recognise the millions of children and families worldwide who live with rare conditions — many of which pose unique…

It’s World Rare Disease Day 🌎

People with rare diseases sometimes (or often!) need anaesthesia too 🧬

Many rare diseases start in childhood 👶

Improving education is good 🔊 📖

Improving research might be even better 🥼 🧪

Improving advocacy might be the best start 💪 💥

#WHOFides #AnSky #PedSky

Rare diseases

Today, the 28th February is Rare Disease Day

*facts*:
🧬 Around 80% of rare diseases are of genetic origin
👶🏻 70% of rare diseases start in childhood
🔎 More than 7,000 rare diseases identified
🎗️ 1 out of 5 cancers are rare

🔗 WHO: bit.ly/41aTCKY 

#WHOFides

I am happy to share that I have joined #WHOFides: a network of healthcare influencers- Voices you can trust.
Fides aims to counteract the spread of health-related misinformation and empower the public to make informed, evidence-based decisions about their health.
#WHOFIDES

International Childhood Cancer Day 15 February 2025
Act Early: Detect, Diagnose, and Treat Childhood Cancer
#ChildhoodCancer #WHOFides @who.fides
www.who.int/news-room/fa...

Today is #WorldCancerDay

Are you aware of cancers risk factors?

1- Tobacco use
2- Alcohol
3- Obesity
4- Lack of physical activity
5- Diet poor in fruits & vegetables 🥗
6- Some viral infections like #HPV, hepatitis B & C ( #vaccines work)
7- UV
8- Air pollution

#WHOFides

Today is World Neglected Tropical Diseases D! #WorldNTDDay

💡A diverse group of diseases that lack public health attention, caused by a variety of pathogens, prevalent among vulnerable communities in tropical areas.
🩺 NTD examples: Chagas Disease, Leprosy, Leishmaniasis, Dengue Fever.

#WHOFides

🚭 A decrease in global tobacco users from 1 in 3 in 2000 to 1 in 5 in 2022. However, country surveys consistently show that children aged 13–15 years in most countries are using tobacco and nicotine products.

Credit to WHO.
#WHOFides #NoTobacco