#WHWWeek

This #WorldHealthWorkerWeek, we recognize and thank all medical professionals for their dedication and collectively rising to combat #COVID19 in communities across the nation and around the world. #WHWWeek

This week and every week, we honor health workers in the U.S. and across the globe, especially those working on the frontlines. Thank you for all you do. #WHWWeek

📢As @WHO kicks off the 5th Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Geneva🇨🇭, we are pleased to share 3 new policy briefs fresh off the press 📚 prepared to inform high-level roundtables this World Health Worker Week 👇 #WHWWeek #Working4Health #ProtectInvestTogether 1/

It’s World Health Worker Week! Follow along with @USAIDGH this week to learn more about USAID’s work supporting incredible #HWHeroes worldwide. #WHWWeek

Quality care is IMPOSSIBLE without health workers. Retweet if you agree! #HealthWorkers are the backbone of health systems and our resilience in the face of adversity. #ProtectInvestTogether for a healthier 🌏 this #WHWWeek

The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident the extent societies need key workers. The biggest stress of being a key worker during this time was the increased physical risk of exposure to the virus. #WHWWeek Read:

During Tanzania's 2023 Marburg outbreak, Vedestina Shumbusho, a CDC-trained Community Health Worker, played a pivotal role in containing the spread. This #WHWWeek, we celebrate her life-saving efforts. Uncover more of her story!

Clean hands help health workers keep themselves and their patients safe. Thank you to these hand hygiene leaders, and so many others, who work to ensure safe care delivery through proper WASH. #WHWWeek...

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Thank you to all of our incredible #healthworkers and volunteers❤️ It is because of you that children in some of the world's toughest places can have a brighter, healthier future. #WHWWeek

Thank you @DrTedros ! "We must address the role of women, who account for 2/3 of the health & care workforce. Too few women are in senior positions in the health sector & there is a 24% gender Pay Gap." @WHO @GWLvoices @womeninGH @UHC2030 @uclg_women @NizamiGanjaviIC #WHWWeek

My opening remarks at @WHO’s 5th Global Forum on Human Resources for Health

📣📣📣We echo the cheers & big hurrah that @WomenDeliver President & CEO @Katja_Iversen gives to #HealthWorkers— our modern-day heroes. With #WHWWeek just days away, join our video campaign w/ @HRH2030program:

Currently, a global shortage of over 7.2 million #healthworkers exists, expected to rise up to 18 million by 2030 unless urgent measures are taken. Gaps concentrate in low-resource settings, where access to healthcare is needed most. #HealthWorkersCount #WHWWeek

Keep cheering👏👏👏! The World Health Worker Week might officielly be over, but we need to keep cheering, paying and protecting our nurses, midwives, doctors +all the world’s #healthworkers as if our life depended on it. Cause it does!#COVID19 #WHWWeek #yearofthenurseandmidwife

This #WHWWeek, we champion female health workers—like Stephanie and Pascal in Haiti—who make up 70% of the #globalhealth workforce. Let’s create more opportunities for female #HealthHeroes to lead!

USAID has a longstanding commitment to #HealthWorkers. Countries’ health workers are critical to advance positive health outcomes, and to support their country's goals for achieving universal health coverage and building #HealthSystems resilience. #WHWWeek

#WHWWeek - in the practice of effective #breastfeeding , colostrum acts as immune therapy to reduce necrotising enterocolitis, a major cause of neonatal morbidity. We must view human milk as a medicine and vital resource for new-borns.

#Medela Symposium: “In Nigeria, we teach lactation support through our #MamaCare midwives teaching women and caregivers the best way to establish lactation in the first year, conducting a postnatal visit and teaching on contraception through accessible heuristics.” #WHWWeek

#Medela Symposium: “From July, we will have 70+ midwives teaching 8000 pregnant women in 576 locations across 4 states of Nigeria, with one midwife per 111 mothers through our programmes, a stark contrast from Nigeria’s average of 1 to 20,000. WHO recommends 1 per 434.” #WHWWeek

During emergencies like #COVID19 girls and women still get pregnant, need access to contraception + safe abortion & give birth. They have the right to quality care. Thanks to all nurses, midwives and OBGYNs who deliver and bring #HealthForAll . #WHWWeek #UHC

A well-trained, well-paid health workforce—especially nurses, midwives & community health workers—are the heart of any strong health system. Proud to work w/ partners like @NursingNow2020 @IFMSA & more to make these voices heard. #WHWWeek 🖼: @FHWCoalition

#WHWWeek - I am delighted to have spoken on and listened to research on the importance of #qualityimprovement for #breastfeeding and the #socialinvestment of human milk for improved health and community development at the #Medela Breastfeeding Symposium.