World Health Organization
3 years ago ⋅ English ⋅ 2 min read
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WHO and Armenia agree on health priorities during Regional Director’s visit

WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, signed a biennial collaborative agreement (BCA) and presented a special WHO award to health workers in Armenia during a recent... Read More
World Health Organization
3 years ago ⋅ English ⋅ 2 min read
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Local solutions to local challenges: Regional Director witnesses progress on health reforms in Azerbaijan

Building on the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, strengthening access to quality health care through financial reforms, and highlighting life-saving vaccination as the Region marked Eu... Read More
World Health Organization
3 years ago ⋅ English ⋅ 1 min read
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14.9 million excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021

New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) betwe... Read More
World Health Organization
3 years ago ⋅ English ⋅ 3 min read
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World Hand Hygiene Day –Unite to promote hand cleaning at the core of disease prevention

In our daily lives, we do so much with our hands. They are tools for creativity and for expressing ourselves, and a means for providing care and doing good. But hands can also be centre... Read More
World Health Organization
3 years ago ⋅ English ⋅ 3 min read
Newsroom
World Hand Hygiene Day – Unite to promote hand cleaning at the core of disease prevention

In our daily lives, we do so much with our hands. They are tools for creativity and for expressing ourselves, and a means for providing care and doing good. But hands can also be centre... Read More
World Health Organization
3 years ago ⋅ English ⋅ 3 min read
Newsroom
Health workers leading by example this World Hand Hygiene Day

We spoke to 2 nurses about the simple, but critically important practice of cleaning hands and found out why hand hygiene is so important in the health-care environment.“As health worke... Read More