Today is #SickleCell Awareness Day 🩸
40% more people are living with sickle cell disease today than in 2000. It is a growing health challenge, affecting around 7.7 million people in the world today.
This means more health workers – incl. maternity providers - need to know how
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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Director-General of the World Health Organization. Retweets are not endorsements
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reposted"O mundo precisa concluir aquilo que começou!". O Presidente @LulaOficial chegou ao G7 na França chamando a atenção para a finalização do Acordo sobre Pandemias da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS/ONU). Em uma carta assinada com o diretor-geral da instituição, Tedros Adhanom,
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus repostedBunia: @WHO, @AfricaCDC & les agences partenaires, aux côtés des ministres de la Santé, de la Communication & des Affaires humanitaires, ont uni leurs voix lors d’un point de presse sur #Ebola pour renforcer la sensibilisation aux mesures de prévention afin de stopper l’épidémie.
- 🇬🇧 A British teacher has been convicted of sexually abusing and murdering the 13-month-old boy he adopted. Jamie Varley, 37, took a year off work to adopt baby Preston Davey, then killed him within 4 months. A post-mortem found 40 injuries. Varley said the boy drowned in the
- Lenacapavir is one of the most exciting innovations in the history of #HIV. My congratulations to #SouthAfrica for being among the first countries to launch the national lenacapavir programme. Looking ahead, South Africa has the opportunity not only to scale up access, but to
00:00 - #Hantavirus update: - Almost all of MV Hondius passengers and crew members who have been quarantined in the Netherlands are now allowed to return home, including non-nationals. - The number of reported cases remains 13, including three deaths. With no new cases reported in over
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reposted.@WHO is working with rapid response teams to ensure all people affected by Ebola, including contacts of cases who have completed 21 days of follow up for any signs or symptoms, are reintegrated into communities with dignity and care. So far around 620 contacts of cases have
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus repostedCuidados primários de saúde de qualidade = Redução da mortalidade materna, neonatal e infantil🤱🏾 No Fórum sobre Subsistemas Comunitários, o Director-Geral da @WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, reconheceu os avanços🇲🇿e apelou a maior investimento para que ninguém fique atrás.
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus repostedJoin us for the 3rd Global Convening of the Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) on 22-24 June 2026 at the @WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The convening will be held under the theme of “Building health systems resilience and local capacity through Digital
- My thanks to @_AfricanUnion Chairperson, President of #Burundi @GeneralNeva, for convening a high-level meeting of Heads of State and Government on the #Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak response, which mobilised $910 million in pledges. Here are the seven priorities that came out of










































