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13/08/2025

🔔 *WHO Health Alert*
_13 August 2025_

*673 million people faced hunger in 2024* 🍽️

This is a slight drop from recent years, but still far from ending global hunger.

Governments, communities, and individuals can all act.

*Individuals can:*
• Buy from local farmers and reduce food waste 🧑🏽‍🌾

• Advocate for school meal programmes and food aid 🍎

• Share info on healthy, affordable meals and the benefits of breastfeeding 🤱🏽

• Support projects that improve farming in local communities 🌾

• Call for the cost of basic, healthy items to be stabilized 📈

Learn more:

An estimated 8.2 percent of the global population, or about 673 million people, experienced hunger in 2024, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.

23/07/2025

🔔 *WHO Update*
_23 July 2025_

*Drowning is fast and silent, and it can happen to anyone* 🌊

Around 300,000 people die from drowning each year.

Children, men, people in poor or rural areas, those who work near water, and anyone affected by floods are most at risk of drowning.

*Prevent drowning:*
• Learn to swim & teach your children 🏊‍♂️

• Always watch children near water – never leave them alone 👀

• Don’t drink alcohol when swimming or supervising children 🚫

• Check conditions before swimming 🌦️

• Use life jackets and safety equipment correctly 🦺

Learn more:

WHO fact sheet on drowning with key facts and information on the scope of the problem, who is at risk, prevention and WHO response.

16/07/2025

🔔 *WHO Weekly Update*
_16 July 2025_

*Did you know that most communication happens without saying a word?* 💡

Your body language, tone of voice and facial expressions are powerful communication tools.

*WHO has launched a new, free course called Talk to Connect* 🏅

It teaches simple (but super effective) communication skills to make your personal and work relationships stronger 💬

While Talk to Connect was created for healthcare workers, the simple tools and tricks taught in the course can improve anyone's communication. It doesn't matter what work you do! 🌟

*Join Talk to Connect now* and build the superpower of great communication 💪

02/07/2025

🔔 *WHO Health Alert*
_2 July 2025_

*As the European region heats up, so do health risks*

Heat can worsen heart, lung and diabetes problems, harm mental health and overwhelm the body’s cooling.

Who’s most at risk? Older adults, babies, pregnant women & outdoor workers.

*Keep cool:*
• Avoid peak heat 🌞
• Keep homes cool 🏠
• Drink water, skip alcohol 💧
• Take cool showers 🚿
* Check on vulnerable people 🤝

Most heat harm is preventable. Stay safe this summer!

Learn more:

As summer approaches the European Region, the promise of sunshine and outdoor activities often overshadows a growing, silent threat: extreme heat. Far from being a mere discomfort, soaring temperatures can pose an escalating risk to human health – claiming lives, causing suffering and burdening he...

18/06/2025

🔔 *WHO Health Alert*
_18 June 2025_

*Everyone feels anxious sometimes* 💛

But anxiety disorders cause intense, hard-to-control fear. Over 300 million people are affected – mostly women.

*Symptoms include:*
• Constant worry or fear
• Trouble concentrating & sleeping
• Irritability or restlessness
• Nausea or stomach upset
• Heart palpitations
• Sweating or trembling
• Feeling panic or doom

*What can help:*
• Reduce alcohol and drug use 🚭
• Exercise regularly 🚶🏾‍♀️
• Keep a healthy diet and sleep routine 🍎
• Practise deep breathing & mindfulness 🧘🏽

Learn more:

Everyone can feel anxious sometimes, but people with anxiety disorders often experience fear and worry that is both intense and excessive.

11/06/2025

🔔 *WHO Weekly Update*
_11 June 2025_

*World Blood Donor Day – 14 June 2025 🩸*

Every blood donation is a gift of life. One donation can save up to 3 people. Regular donations help patients during emergencies, surgeries, and chronic illnesses.

*Let’s support this life-saving act:*
• Donate if you’re 18–65, 50kg+, and feeling well 💪🏽

• Encourage others to give blood 🗣️

• Thank donors and raise awareness 🙌🏽

Together, we build stronger, healthier communities.

Safe food means better health!
*Learn more:*

The World Blood Donor Day, 14 June, serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood and to raise awareness of the need for regular blood donations.

04/06/2025

🔔 *WHO Weekly Update*
_4 June 2025_

*World Food Safety Day - 7 June 2025 🍽️*

Unsafe food causes over 200 diseases, from diarrhoea to cancer. Each day, 1.6 million people get sick from unsafe food, costing low- and middle-income countries US$110 billion every year.

*Let’s make food safety everyone’s business:*
• Wash your hands, food, and kitchen tools 🧼

• Cook food all the way through 🌡️

• Keep food in a cool, clean place 🧊

• Support government to create and enforce stronger food safety laws 🛡️

Safe food means better health!
*Learn more:*

Science is at the heart of food safety. It helps us understand what makes food unsafe and guides us on how to prevent foodborne diseases. The theme of World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2025 draws attention to the use of scientific knowledge as key to reducing illness, cutting costs and saving lives.

28/05/2025

🔔 *WHO Weekly Update*
_28 May 2025_

*World No To***co Day - 31 May 2025 🚭*

In many countries, more young people use e-cigarettes than adults. Over 37 million kids aged 13–15 use to***co.

Flavors, bright packaging and social media influencers are used to hook them. These products might look fun but they’re highly addictive.

*Unmask the appeal:*
• Support flavor bans & plain packaging 📦

• Speak out against misleading marketing 🗣️

• Push for stricter laws to regulate sales 🛡️

*Learn more about how you can help:*

Unmask the Appeal ***coExposed

14/05/2025

🔔 *WHO Weekly Update*
_14 May 2025_

*Updates on the global nursing workforce* 👩🏾‍⚕️

The State of the World’s Nursing 2025 report was published by WHO on 12 May, International Nurses Day. It gives the latest overview of the nursing workforce worldwide, by region and country.

*Important findings included:*

• The global nursing workforce has grown to 29.8 million 📈

• Shortages are expected to drop to 4.1 million by 2030 📉

• But big gaps remain between regions 🌍

• 78% of nurses work in countries that hold just 49% of the world’s population 📍

*Learn more:*

The global nursing workforce has grown from 27.9 million in 2018 to 29.8 million in 2023, but wide disparities in the availability of nurses remain across regions and countries, according to the State of the World’s Nursing 2025 report, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), Internati...

07/05/2025

🔔 *WHO Weekly Update*
_7 May 2025_

*5 May was World Hand Hygiene Day* 🧼

Washing your hands saves lives. Clean hands stop the spread of infections – at home, in communities, and in hospitals.

About 1 in 10 patients get healthcare-associated infections – picked up while receiving care in a clinic or hospital.

*Simple tips include:*

• Wash hands with soap for 20+ seconds 🧼
• Use alcohol hand rub if you don't have water 🖐️
• Wash hands before eating & after the toilet 🍽️
• Clean hands before & after using gloves 🧤
• Speak up for hand hygiene 📢

*Learn more:*

Each year the World Hand Hygiene Day campaign, celebrated on 5 May, aims to progress the goal of maintaining a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement globally.

23/04/2025

🔔 *WHO Weekly Update*
_23 April 2025_

*World Immunization Week* 🌏

Over the last 50 years, vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives. That’s 6 lives a minute, every day, for five decades.

During this period, there has been a 40% improvement in infant survival. However, we still need to reach millions of children who’ve never had a single vaccine.

*We also need to protect:*

• older people from flu 👵🏽
• young girls from HPV 👧🏾
• babies from malaria & RSV 🍼
• pregnant women from tetanus 🤰🏼

Protect yourself and your family with immunization and learn more:

World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to promote the life-saving power of immunization to protect people of all ages against vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements.

16/04/2025

🔔 *WHO Weekly Update*
_16 April 2025_

*Healthy cities for all* 🏙️

Over half the world’s population lives in cities – and by 2050, that number will rise to nearly 7 in 10.

Unplanned urban growth can harm health – especially for the vulnerable.

*Here’s what’s happening:*
• 40% of city dwellers lack safe sanitation 🚫
• 9 in 10 breathe polluted air 🌫️
• Unsafe transport = injuries & pollution 🚗
• Cities are becoming hotspots for disease 🦟

*Let’s build healthier cities. Ask your local leaders to prioritize:*
• Clean air & safe water
• Smoke-free public spaces
• Safe transport & active living
• Healthy diets & urban planning
• Emergency & disease response

*Learn more:*

WHO fact sheet on urban health, including aspects such as noncommunicable and infectious diseases, injuries, climate change, health inequities and WHO response.