World Immunization Week - vaccines bring us closer [EN/AR/KU]
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Baghdad, 28 April 2021 – Every year from 24 to 30 April, WHO, UNICEF, and all health partners in Iraq join the global community to celebrate World Immunization Week. This year, under the theme vaccines bring us closer, the World Immunization Week urges greater engagement around immunization globally and at the country level to promote the importance of vaccination, and to improve health and well-being, for all.
The World Immunization Week aims to promote vaccines to protect people of all ages against vaccine-preventable diseases. Immunization saves millions of lives every year and is widely recognized as one of the world s most successful health interventions. Vaccines are safe and effective and can positively impact the population s health when immunization rates are high. Yet, there are still many children in Iraq today not getting the vaccines they need, and many people missing vital vaccines during adoles
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WHO and Ministry of Health, Iraq train representatives of MoH on QualityRights initiative [EN/AR]
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Baghdad, Iraq, 2 March 2021- In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization conducted the first WHO Quality Rights initiative training for 8 Ministry of Health officials at Ibn Rushd psychiatric hospital, in Baghdad.
The training was conducted to strengthen the quality of mental health services and human rights conditions in health facilities providing mental health services in Iraq and provide recommendations for the full national implementation of the WHO QualityRights initiative. The training also offered an opportunity to empower representatives of MoH by acquiring tools related to the QualityRights initiative.
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Baghdad
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Training on the WHO QualityRights initiative aims to strengthen mental health services in Iraq
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Baghdad, Iraq, 2 March 2021 – In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization conducted the first WHO QualityRights initiative training for 8 Ministry of Health officials at Ibn Rushd psychiatric hospital in Baghdad.
The training was conducted to strengthen the quality of mental health services and human rights conditions in health facilities providing mental health services, present recommendations for full national implementation of the WHO QualityRights initiative and familiarize Ministry of Health staff with the tools related to the initiative. We expect participants to use these tools at the health facility level and generate and share reports of the outcomes with the Ministry of Health and WHO, said Dr Bruni Andrea, WHO Technical Officer for Mental Health in Iraq. The QualityRights initiative offers a fundamental approach to mental health ca
Iraq
Baghdad
Iraqi
Baraa-afif-shaba
Pauline-ajello
Ibn-rushd
Ajyal-sultany
Mental-health
World-health-organization
Ministry-of-health
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