Excited to be launching with Hans Kluge, Bruce Aylward & colleagues the International #PrimaryHealthCare Conference online platform next week to:   ✅ Engage in discussions ✅ Meet speakers ✅ Access resources   ➡️ cvent.me/yZQDRl   Let's deliver #PHC4UHC together

📢We urge global and country leaders to commit to the highest level of active involvement at #UNGA78 and contribute to achieving #UHC and #healthforall 🌏 UHC will not be achieved without a strong and equipped health workforce - let’s invest together! UHC2030

Invest NOW to strengthen surveillance, early warning, data&digital health at community level. For this CHWs are critical part of #PHC and surge capacity where it counts. Invest in health & community health prevent pandemic now Luwei Pearson Suraya Dalil UNICEF Health Shams Syed

"Clean hands are within reach" - Global Handwashing Day strengthens efforts for clean water, safe handwashing practices and sanitation and hygiene prevent diseases and deaths among children. Increase access to soap and water. Everyone has a role. Manohar Shenoy @unicefhealth

PHC - the heart of every health systems - how do we get there. Recording of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine session is now available. Invest in PHC NOW to build a resilient pandemic-proof health system Luisa Pettigrew Luke Allen lshtm.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/…

Honored to have been a part of the 10 part series from #LSHTM. Rich source of current #PHC #HealthSystemsStrengthening presentations and discussions for health professionals' orientation and update. Highly recommended..... lshtm.ac.uk/research/centr…

The #PHC4UHC Conference at Astana kicks off in a few hours. Ensuring equitable access to quality PHC by increased investments on PHC and its workforce will make UHC and resilient health systems a reality. NOW is the time for action.

Gabriele Fontana, UNICEF regional health adviser co-moderating the first plenary session on Astana 2018 as a catalyser of transformation #PHC4UHC at Astana

Octavian Bivol, UNICEF DyRD at the Plenary 1 of Astana #PHC4UHC calls for a multisectoral approach, #CHW community health workers and nurses, integrated package of health services incl. adolescents, mental health based on burden of disease. #UHC2030

Congratulations 🇮🇳 Vaishali, outright leader from Round 7 Grand Swiss tournament. As the winner of 1st prize 25k still a far cry from the 80K 1st to Men. Chess prize money 4 men & women should reach parity and FIDE will do well to reform the gender disparities. Viswanathan Anand

Very good and useful presentation. All 3 PHC approaches: integrated services, empowered people/communities and multi-sectoral action as well as the 14 levers when focused on zero-dose children and communities helps both immunization program and Strengthened PHC for UHC

Water, Sanitation & handwashing with Menstrual hygiene for women and adolescents prevents avoidable morbidity and mortality. Diarrhoea and Cholera can be prevented and deaths avoided. WASH facilities in #PHCs make health services stronger Luwei Pearson UNICEF Health Shams Syed

Referral is much more than transport: Using verbal and social autopsy approaches to understand why neonates die in rural settings: a case study of a remote rural district in Uganda | ⁦Peter Waiswa⁩ ⁦Makerere University School of Public Health⁩ bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e0…

#UHC2030 is still possible. Countries need to prioritize and #InvestinHealth with a focus on #PHC. Strong PHC close to communities will help achieve #SDG3 and all our mortality reduction goals, make health systems pandemic proof and allow early and rapid control of outbreaks

Congratulations Shekhar Seshadri. A huge boost for him and his team at SAMVAD, NIMHANS. Your outstanding public service for children and adolescents and their mental health is aiding more mental health workers in every state and UT in India Shekhar Seshadri Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, ILS, Pune SAMVAD - Child Psychiatry Centre, NIMHANS

My best yrs in UNICEF (1989-2001) in India. Victor Soler-Sala, Ex-Chief Planning, India (1970-75) gave to me in 2014, the commemorative brass coin minted specially for 25 yr. Rie (1990-93-ICDS/Orissa) and I met yesterday and remembered our good times Hyun Hee Ban UNICEF India

Congratulations Dr. Uma Balaji. We are proud of your commitment and passion for student outcomes with a focus on #STEM outreach, promoting #SDGs for under-represented communities and girls even when conditions are not among the best. You made the difference where it matters.

Will assist UNICEF-WHO SDG3 / PHC acceleration in countries. Coming after joint UNICEF-WHO publications PHC Operational framework and the PHC measurement framework, this primer published by the WHO HQ&Europe offices with inputs from UNICEF in many chapters is a great addition

Approaching health care holistically saves lives. Professor Mamadou Samba, Director General of Health, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire breaks down how critical primary health care is and what accessibility means! #UNGA79

At the Summit of the Future this year, let's remind our leaders that health is our future🌎 We must protect the right to health for all! #UniversalHealthCoverage #healthforall