| No images? Click here  Friday 02.04.22 | Issue 143 WHO / Booming - Carlos Cesar Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) updates A virtual press briefing with simultaneous translation in all UN languages with the participation of the WHO Director-General is expected for next week. Media advisories with Zoom links/dial-in details will be emailed in advance. For the latest news from WHO on COVID-19 and other breaking health stories, read WHO's news updates.  Sunday, 6 February International Day of Zero Tolerance for female genital mutilation 2022 Sunday marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for female genital mutilation (FGM). This year’s theme is "Accelerating Investment to End FGM" — calling for support for programmes to provide services and response for those affected and those at risk; in developing and enforcing laws, and fortifying institutional capacity to eliminate the practice. Two new tools have been launched by WHO and HRP to help health-care providers give the best quality care to girls and women who have been subjected to FGM – and to also support global efforts to end this harmful practice and human rights violation. Read more here.  Monday, 7 February Signing ceremony: WHO to sign Memorandum of Understanding with the Commonwealth Secretariat On Monday, WHO and the Commonwealth Secretariat will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their collaboration in seven priority areas. The MoU will be signed by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, and The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. The event will be webcast here.  Tuesday, 8 February ICD-11 - launch of latest version The latest update of the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) goes online next Tuesday. The ICD provides a common language that allows health professionals to share health information across the globe. It is the foundation for identifying health trends and statistics worldwide. This new version has been compiled with input from over 90 countries, and unprecedented involvement of health care workers. ICD-11 was adopted at the World Health Assembly in May 2019, with Member States committing to start using it in 2022.  Wednesday, 9 February ACT-Accelerator campaign launch The Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator will launch its advocacy campaign at an event running from 1500-1600 CET on Wednesday, hosted by the WHO Director-General and attended by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and Prime Minister Jonas Støre of Norway, as well as fellow dignitaries. This virtual event is being held to raise awareness of the ACT-Accelerator’s achievements and build political support for the urgent financial needs of its agencies, to scale up their vital work and end the acute phase of the pandemic in 2022. It will launch the 'fair share' resource mobilization asks to countries and those that have been leading proponents of the ACT-Accelerator will participate and reinforce their government’s support for its objectives and urgent funding needs. The full agenda and livestream of the event will be available here. Ageism in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Health A new WHO policy brief on ageism in artificial intelligence (AI) will be released next Wednesday. It highlights the risks of exacerbating or introducing new forms of ageism in AI technologies for health. It presents legal, non-legal and technical measures that can be used to minimize these risks and enable AI technologies to reach their potential in improving health and social care for older people globally. This policy brief is produced by the Global Campaign to Combat Ageism, a WHO-led initiative in collaboration with partners. The brief adds to the evidence presented in the UN Global report on ageism, released in March 2021.  Friday, 11 February New publication on sexual health Embargoed until February 11th, 20:00 Geneva (14:00 Eastern Time) Ahead of Valentine’s Day (14 February), a new analysis will be published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on the need to consider sexual pleasure, not only risk of disease, in designing sexual health programmes. This is shown to be an important success factor for improving knowledge around sex and uptake of safer sex practices such as condom use. The new analysis has been authored by experts at The Pleasure Project together with WHO. More on sexual health.  Sign up for our newsletters here. Check out the WHO series, Science in 5. See more upcoming WHO events here.  WHO Media contacts:  You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. |
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