World Health Organization, WHO, has reported that in spite of COVID-19 presence, there are significant global health achievements.
The World Health Organization’s 2020-2021 Results Report released ahead of the World Health Assembly next week tracks WHO’s significant achievements across the global health spectrum, to include delivery of more than one point four billion vaccine doses via the COVAX facility, the recommendation for broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine and WHO’s response to some eighty-seven health emergencies, as well as COVID-19.
During 2020-2021, WHO led the largest-ever global response to a health crisis, working with one thousand six hundred technical and operational partners, and helped galvanise the biggest, fastest and most complex vaccination drive in history, spent one point seven billion dollars on essential supplies to the COVID-19 response.
According to WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO has responded to the most severe global health crisis in a century, and has continued to support member states in addressing many other threats to health, despite squeezed budgets and disrupted services.
He said as the world continues to respond and recover from the pandemic in the coming years, WHO’s priority remains to invest more resources for work in countries, where it matters and for this, ensuring that WHO has sustainable, predictable and flexible financing is essential for fulfilling the mission to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.
He said,15 countries have achieved elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and/or syphilis owing to efforts at scaling up life-saving interventions guided by WHO guidelines, while WHO’s recommendation of widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine (RTS,S) which is expected to save forty thousand to eighty thousand lives a year, when used with other malaria control interventions has been delivered to over 1 million children.
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