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Two drops. Fourteen years. One dream: a polio-free Afghanistan.
Campaign after campaign, Rashed Anwari returns to communities across Kabul, navigating harsh weather and long days. His mission is simple: protect children from polio. But his work goes far beyond administering a vaccine. It is built on listening, answering parents’ questions, and earning trust, one family at a time.
Read his full story here: bit.ly/4yEnQ7M
© Khesraw Omid Farooq / WHO Afghanistan.
Ever smiled through a hot flush in the middle of work? You’re far from alone.
Around the world, women speaking up has pushed menopause up the agenda and helped improve care. Those voices are now shaping policies, services and the way we all talk about menopause.
Your experience counts. Share it with your health provider, your employer, your community and the people who make decisions. Every story moves the conversation forward.
World Health Organization (WHO) retweeted
#Cholera is an ancient disease we know how to prevent, yet it continues to devastate the poorest countries. Vaccines are vital to preventing and controlling outbreaks.
Earlier this week, I visited EuBiologics in Chuncheon, #Korea, currently the only manufacturer producing oral cholera vaccines at the scale needed for mass vaccination campaigns, supplying around 93% of doses to the global stockpile.
Thanks to international efforts, including EuBiologics’ contribution, global vaccine production more than doubled between 2022 and 2025, from 30 million to 80 million doses annually.
I commend EuBiologics for its commitment to producing life-saving vaccines for people worldwide.
We cannot close gaps we cannot see. Better data on who is affected, and why, helps target non-communicable disease prevention and care where it is needed most.
#NCDs #HealthEquity
World Health Organization (WHO) retweeted
Yesterday, a nurse was killed and a health worker severely injured after they were attacked while responding to an #Ebola alert in the town of Bafwasende, Tshopo province, #DRC.
Our deepest condolences go to the family, colleagues and friends of the lost nurse. We also wish a swift and full recovery to his injured colleague who remains hospitalized.
Everyone working to protect communities from this deadly disease must be able to work in dignity and safety. Healthcare must always be protected.
Prevention and care for noncommunicable diseases should reach everyone, whoever they are and wherever they live. Underserved communities, people living with disability, people who are unemployed and migrants face extra barriers to care. Services designed with them in mind leave fewer people behind.
Learn more: bit.ly/4dPdGtt
We can't see it, taste it or smell it.
But lead hides in everyday things: In paint. In dust. In soil. In water. In some ceramics, cosmetics, medicines, toys and jewelry.
Lead poisoning can be stopped: Test for it. Find it. Remove it bit.ly/3TKEwwd
Testing and treatment matter — but the best protection is stopping lead exposure before it happens.
Stronger standards, safer products, safe recycling and better enforcement can save lives.
Prevention is the real solution bit.ly/3TKEwwd
The people most at risk often get the least support. Income, education and where you live affect who can prevent, detect and manage cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Closing that gap starts with knowing where it is.
Learn more: bit.ly/4dPdGtt
Once lead enters the body, it can travel through the bloodstream and reach vital organs like the brain, kidneys, liver and bones.
Over time, lead can accumulate and damage multiple systems in the body bit.ly/3TKEwwd
Unsafe lead-acid battery recycling can contaminate soil, dust and nearby communities.
What begins as an environmental hazard can quickly become a serious health threat for children. Safer recycling practices help prevent exposure and protect families bit.ly/3TKEwwd
Lead can accumulate in the bones over time and may be released during pregnancy, potentially exposing a developing baby.
Preventing lead exposure today helps protect the health and development of the next generation before birth bit.ly/3TKEwwd
World Health Organization (WHO) retweeted
At a time when our world seem increasingly divided, effort to #EndPolio reminds us of what is possible when we unite behind a common purpose.
One day soon, we will mark the final #WorldPolioDay. And then we will have something truly worth celebrating: a polio-free world.
Let’s make it happen!
Kids today may not remember polio, but their grandparents likely do.
That’s why @Rotary's Dr Arthur Lavin, founder of @GrandparentsFV, is collecting their stories. Grandparents’ memories teach younger generations what life was like before vaccines protected children from polio, and remind families why vaccines still matter today. #EndPolio
Read the story: rotary.org/en/articles/2026/…
This is Hope Kasamba’s story, a polio vaccinator. ⬇️
Ahead of #WorldPolioDay, we celebrate the people behind the scenes who work tirelessly to reach every child with polio vaccination.
Watch Hope Kasamba, a polio vaccinator from #Malawi below, and read more of his story here: bit.ly/4yyDFNe
Clear water doesn't always mean lead-free water.
Lead can enter drinking water through pipes, solder and plumbing fixtures and you can't see, taste or smell it. Preventing exposure starts with identifying where lead is coming from and stopping it at the source bit.ly/3TKEwwd
World Health Organization (WHO) retweeted
Science gives us hope. Today, in Bunia #DRC, the first participants were vaccinated in a new #Ebola vaccine trial called TUMAINI, which means “hope” in Swahili.
There is currently no approved vaccine against the Bundibugyo virus causing the outbreak. This trial will help us understand whether any of the vaccine candidates designed for Bundibugyo virus work.
In the meantime, the existing Everbo vaccine (licensed for use in preventing other Ebola virus disease) will be tested.
@WHO is supporting this DRC-led effort to find answers and save lives.
When extreme heat strikes, how many people become ill or die?
Too often, the true toll remains invisible.
A new global monitoring framework will help countries connect health and heat-exposure data—to support earlier action to protect pregnant women, newborns and children.
Learn more: bit.ly/4zLTLEh
Your risk of developing a noncommunicable disease, such as cancer, heart disease or diabetes, is shaped by more than the choices you make. Income, education, gender, age and where you live all affect your health and well-being.
New WHO report ➡️
State of inequality: noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors
Learn more: bit.ly/4dPdGtt
