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Friday, 26 April 2024 | Issue 252
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World Health Day 2023 – 75 years of improving public health [https://www.who.int/campaigns/75-years-of-improving-public-health]
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) updates [https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019]
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24 – 30 AprilWorld Immunization Week
Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements, saving millions of lives every year. This year, World Immunization Week will celebrate 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) [https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2024/01/01/default-calendar/50th-anniversary-of-the-expanded-programme-on-immunization-(epi)] – a collaborative initiative aimed at ensuring universal access to life-saving vaccines for everyone, everywhere.
A new landmark study to be published in The Lancet reveals the number of lives saved thanks to global vaccination efforts over the past 50 years. This is the most comprehensive analysis of EPI’s global and regional health impact of vaccination against 14 diseases: diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae type B, hepatitis B, Japanese encephalitis, measles, meningitis A, pertussis, invasive pneumococcal disease, polio, rotavirus, rubella, tetanus, tuberculosis, and yellow fever.
WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and The Gates Foundation have launched ‘Humanly Possible,’ a shared global campaign to mark the profound achievement of EPI and call on leaders to invest in immunization.?
More information can be accessed at a campaign website [https://itshumanlypossible.org/].
29 April – 10 May
09:00–12:00, 13:00–16:00 and 16:30–18:30 CEST
Ninth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) for a WHO instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response – resumed
In December 2021, the World Health Assembly established an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body [https://inb.who.int/] (INB) to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement or other international instrument under the Constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
The resumed ninth meeting of the INB is to be held in hybrid format from 29 April to 10 May 2024. INB9, resumed, is the final negotiating session to agree a new pandemic instrument. Representatives of WHO’s 194 Member States are expected to attend.
The closing plenary session of the INB is open to WHO Member States, Associate Members, Observers and regional economic integration organizations, as well all relevant stakeholders. The session will be publicly webcast and archived for later viewing. Substantive negotiating sessions will be held in closed format.
More info here [https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2024/04/29/default-calendar/ninth-meeting-of-the-intergovernmental-negotiating-body-(inb)-for-a-who-instrument-on-pandemic-prevention-preparedness-and-response-resumed].
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