Unequal Vaccine Distribution Self-Defeating, World Health Organization Chief Tells Economic and Social Council’s Special Ministerial Meeting
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With the number of new COVID-19 cases around the world nearly doubling over the past two months approaching the highest infection rate observed during the pandemic the unequal distribution of vaccines is not only a moral outrage, but economically and epidemiologically self-defeating, the head of the United Nations health agency told a special ministerial meeting of the Economic and Social Council today.
“Vaccine equity is the challenge of our time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the gathering in opening remarks. “And we are failing.”
LMFM By Caitriona Rooney Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB) is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms. Shabana Hussain Dowd as Deputy Principal at Coláiste Ríoga, Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath.
As a Deputy Principal within the LMETB Schools Directorate, Shabana will also have the collegial support of the Senior Management teams in LMETB’s other seventeen Post Primary schools, four Community National Schools, two PLC colleges and the Centre for European Schooling in Dunshaughlin.
Shabana holds an Undergraduate Degree in English, a Post Graduate Diploma in Education and a Post Graduate Diploma in Inclusive Education, Learning Support and Special Educational Needs.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. In 2008, the National Defense Authorization Act authorized the Secretary of Defense to “establish a Center of Excellence to address the full scope of vision care including prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, research and rehabilitation of military eye injuries and diseases.”
That year, the Vision Center of Excellence was established to address the full scope of vision care, including prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, research, and rehabilitation of military eye injuries and diseases including visual dysfunctions related to traumatic brain injury.
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