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International Nurses Day, 12 May 2013
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12 May is International Nurses Day, the
anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The theme for 2013 is “Closing
the Gap: Millennium Development Goals 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1”.
WHO joins the International Council of Nurses (ICN), nursing organizations
and nurses around the globe to celebrate this important day and commend the
good work that nurses contribute to the health of people.
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More information:
More information on nurse and midwifery
Regional Director's message on International Nurses Day
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25 April 2013: World Malaria Day
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WHO
Thailand joins Thailand and the global community in commemorating World
Malaria Day on 25 April. The theme
this year is “Invest in the future: defeat malaria”. This day provides an opportunity to
highlight progress, needs, and challenges in malaria control and to endorse
the vision of Thailand’s National Malaria Control and Elimination Strategy
(2012-2016) that 80% of the country will be free from locally acquired
malaria transmission by 2020.
Over
the last decade, the world, and South-east Asia in particular, has made
major progress in the fight against malaria. Since 2000, malaria mortality
rates have fallen by more than 25% and 50 of the 99 countries with ongoing
transmission are now on track to meet the 2015 World Health Assembly target
of reducing incidence rates by more than 75%.
Thailand
has been a leader in this global effort and has achieved a steady and
significant decrease in malaria incidence over the past 30 years, from
almost 500,000 cases and 4000 deaths in 1981 to less than 50,000 cases and
80 deaths in 2011. A major scale-up
of vector control interventions, together with increased access to
diagnostic testing and quality-assured treatment, has been key to this progress. However, malaria remains a
significant public health problem in Thai provinces bordering Myanmar,
Cambodia, and Malaysia. Along the
western border with Myanmar where incidence is highest, the past 3 years
have not seen a decline in incidence rates.
Thailand’s
commitment to elimination of malaria is further threatened by increasing
evidence of the development of artemisinin
resistant falciparum malaria. The
Thailand-Cambodia borders have long been associated with the development of
antimalarial drug resistance, first to chloroquine,
sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and mefloquine and since 2006 to artemisinin. While various artemisinin-based
combination therapies (ACT) remain the most effective antimalarial
treatments available today for falciparum malaria, drug efficacy needs to
be closely monitored.
Thailand’s
national malaria control and elimination plan highlights four key
strategies: ensure effective early
diagnosis and treatment, maintain effective vector control, provide
comprehensive behavior change communication, and strengthen effective
surveillance and program monitoring.
These efforts will be supplemented by activities focused on
responding to concerns over artemisinin
resistance in Thailand and the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS).
In
response to these concerns, WHO is collaborating with multiple stakeholders
and countries in the GMS, including Thailand, to launch the Emergency
Response to Artemisinin Resistance in Phnom Penh
as part of the World Malaria Day celebration on 25 April. Intensive efforts in Thailand and
throughout the GMS will be required to not only address artemisinin
resistance, but also finally achieve control of malaria.
More information:
More
information on World Malaria Day
Press release: WHO calls for greater investment to
eliminate malaria
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The Global Summit on Civil Registration and Vital
Statistics
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Global Call to Action
to ‘Make Every Life Count’ made in Bangkok today
19 April 2013
¦BANGKOK - At the first-ever Global Summit on Civil Registration and Vital
Statistics (CRVS) that concluded today in Bangkok, governments, UN and
development agencies made a global Call to Action to ensure that important
life events such as births and deaths as well as the causes of death are
registered for every person. To ensure that countries and regional partners
can access the necessary political and technical support to implement
country-owned strategies all actors need to come together at the global
level.
“Improving civil
registration systems is critical to improving health services,” noted
Dr Marie-Paule Kieny,
Assistant Director-General for Health Systems and Innovation at the World
Health Organization (WHO) and Executive Secretary a.i.
of the Health Metrics Network (HMN). “When we know how many children are
born, how many people die and what the principal causes of their death are,
we know better where to prioritize health investments.”
The Bangkok Call to
Action calls for countries and development partners to remove barriers to
universal civil registration, including out-dated laws, weak
infrastructure, poor training of staff and inadequate funding. The Call to
Action builds on momentum generated from regional initiatives launched in
Asia and the Pacific, Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean to improve birth
registration, death registration and CRVS systems. It also reflects the
urgent need to prioritize strengthening CRVS systems on the post-2015
development agenda, as they provide essential data for analysing and
monitoring trends and for developing policies and services for the
population.
More information:
The Health Metrics
Network
Press Release: Strengthening birth and death registration:
Global Call to Action to 'Make Every Life Count' made in Bangkok today
Global
Summit on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
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WHO Thailand on Facebook and Twitter
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The
Thailand country office of the World Health Organization is now on
Facebook. Come and follow our activities in the country. As a specialized
UN agency for global health, the WHO first set up a country office in
Thailand more than 60 years ago. It has been collaborating closely with the
Royal Thai Government and other relevant partners over the past six decades
on public health development in Thailand. That work continues today.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WHOThailand Twitter: www.twitter.com/WHOThailand
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