| No images? Click here  26 September 2025 | Issue 323  Influenza vaccination at the National Family Medicine Training Center in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2022 © WHO / Hedinn Halldorsson   Sunday, 28 September World Rabies Day 2025 World Rabies Day will be marked on 28 September under the theme "Act now: You, Me, Community". As a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD), rabies disproportionately affects underserved communities, mainly in Africa and Asia. Every nine minutes, rabies claims another victim, but death is 100% preventable. When we work together, eliminating this disease for good relies on all of us acting now! More about the Day and the campaign: here. ***** International Safe Abortion Day 2025 International Safe Abortion Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of safe, respectful and rights-based abortion care as a fundamental part of health and human rights. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN’s Special Programme in Human Reproduction (HRP) remain committed to ensuring that all people have access to quality abortion care as part of universal health coverage and essential health services. Unsafe abortion continues to be a major public health concern. Globally, nearly half of all abortions (45%) are unsafe, leading to preventable illness and death. When carried out using WHO-recommended methods, abortion is a simple and safe intervention. Ensuring access to abortion care reduces maternal mortality, improves health outcomes and protects the dignity and rights of women and girls worldwide. Further information: here.  29 September to 3 October 2025 Joint UNICEF, UNFPA and WHO meeting with manufacturers and suppliers 11.00 to 15.00 CEST, virtual event The joint annual meeting - held under the theme “Delivering in times of disruption: building resilient, quality supply systems for sustainable impact” - brings together global health agencies, manufacturers and suppliers of medicines, vaccines, in vitro diagnostics, reproductive health and vector control products to address key issues in the production and supply of quality health products. The participants will explore how partnerships, innovations and local manufacturing can advance the access agenda of quality-assured health products and support the achievement of Universal Health Coverage, and seek to identify solutions that effectively navigate the risks and opportunities within today’s evolving supply chain landscape. Further information and registration: here.  Tuesday, 30 September Outcomes of the meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) - virtual press conference The virtual press conference on the outcomes of the SAGE regular biannual meeting (22 to 25 September) will take place at 16.00 CEST/14.00 GMT on Tuesday, 30 September. The agenda included the current epidemiology of COVID-19 by priority-use groups, vaccine effectiveness and vaccine safety, advances in novel TB vaccine development, and analysis, prioritisation, and policy pathways for novel combination vaccines for endemic pathogens. The speakers will brief on the outcomes of those discussions, and the SAGE recommendations on strategies and the use of a range of vaccines to prevent infectious diseases, including polio, malaria and human influenza A(H5).  Wednesday, 01 October WHO EPI-WIN Webinar: seasonal influenza vaccination – protecting the vulnerable Seasonal influenza has routinely overwhelmed health systems during years with severe epidemics. Seasonal influenza vaccination can mitigate the impacts of annual outbreaks by preventing and mitigating the severity of infections. Speakers in this webinar will provide an overview of key information about seasonal influenza vaccination and respond to frequently asked questions on the value and importance of seasonal influenza vaccination to communities. Further information and registration: here. ******** Unlock new stories on the world's biggest killers (Launch of a journalist's guide to covering noncommunicable diseases) Virtual event, 15.00 CEST/13.00 GMT Join the online launch of Reporting on the world’s biggest killers: a journalist’s guide to covering noncommunicable diseases, a bold new publication from WHO that is packed with real-world data, investigative hooks, and surprising angles on the world’s leading killers: cancer, heart disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases. With contributions from top journalists across every region, the guide captures the stories, challenges and opportunities of reporting on NCDs and what is causing them worldwide. The event will feature leading global health experts ready to answer your questions in a live Q&A, offering exclusive insights that can sharpen your next front-page story. If you’re looking for fresh angles, headline-grabbing data, and access to sources who know where the stories are, this is the launch you don’t want to miss. Registration: here.  Thursday, 02 October Launch of the WHO reports on new tests and treatments for bacterial infections in development worldwide On Thursday, 2 October, the WHO will release two reports on antibacterial agents in clinical and preclinical development, and on available and pipeline diagnostics to detect and identify priority bacteria listed in the WHO bacterial priority pathogens list. The first report, WHO’s Analysis of antibacterial agents in clinical and preclinical development: overview and analysis 2025, assesses whether current research and development efforts are keeping pace with the urgent need for new treatments against the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria. The second report, The Landscape analysis of commercially available and pipeline in vitro diagnostics for bacterial priority pathogens, maps existing and pipeline tools to detect and identify bacterial priority pathogens, which is essential for antimicrobial resistance control. The reports and expert interviews are offered to journalists under embargo; please send your requests to smailbegovica@who.int with a copy to mediainquiries@who.int.  Stories of interest:
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