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On 10 – 11 May, Geneva will host the GIS for a Sustainable World Conference. Based on Geospatial technology in the form of Geographic Information Systems, this merging of data, people and methods aim to share knowledge and respond better to global challenges. In conjunction with the GIS conference, the WHO launches today, 9 May, the WHO GIS Centre for Health, to assist the health sector in its efforts "to respond to an outbreak, track vaccine delivery, collect samples, and explore spatial patterns in areas of case reporting." The image above was taken in the Botanical garden of Ooty in India by Martin Parr in 2018.
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The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund - SHF
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Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases – TDR
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According to the World Health Organization, two billion people still do not have basic sanitation facilities. How do governments and organisations address this sanitation crisis? On 19 November, the "Toilet Revolution" event, organized by Heidi News and the Graduate Institute with the support of the Toilet Board Coalition and UN-Water. will focus on digital health innovations in the field of sanitation and will shed light on organisations based in Geneva working to improve the global sanitation landscape.
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On 10 February, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and, World Health Organization (WHO) present a webinar on International instruments on the use of antimicrobials across the human, animal, and plant sectors. In 2017, the photojournalist Patrick Zachmann reported the work and lives of the Cambimba Village's farmers, Morroa, Colombia, supported by the FAO.
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The 9th edition of the Geneva Health Forum will take place from 3 to 5 May under the theme "Covid-19 Pandemic and Environmental Emergency: Reinventing Global Health in times of Global Changes." You may access the program and register here. Above, the MFS team disinfect the lakes in Magaria, Niger, to avoid the risk of Malaria. This picture was taken by Zied Ben Romdhane in July 2021.
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Today, 24 May, on the margins of the 75th World Health Assembly (WHA), the Global Health Centre (GHC) of the Geneva Graduate Institute will hold the high-level panel discussion entitled "A different scale: Global action to address obesity." This side event will feature the WHO Acceleration Plan to STOP Obesity launched at the WHA.
Photojournalist Lisa Krantz documented one man's losing battle with obesity. Hector Garcia Jr. weighs over 600 pounds in this image. Moving from one room to another has become nearly impossible for him, so his mother, Elena, watches over him. This four-year photographic account titled "A Life Apart: The Toll of Obesity" is accompanied by the heartbreaking testimonies of Hector and his loved ones. It is viewable here.
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Gavi, l'Alliance du Vaccin - Gavi
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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Durch ein Bild eines renommierten Fotografen wird Ihnen jede Woche ein Thema vorgestellt, das mit einer aktuellen Veranstaltung des internationalen Genfs in Verbindung steht.
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© Steiner SA / ILO
Erfahren Sie mehr über das Fachwissen und die wichtigsten Ressourcen, die in Genf als Zentrum für globale Gouvernanz zur Verfügung stehen.
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© Luca Fascini
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A health worker prepares the Chennai Trade Centre which will soon be converted into a 600-bed isolation ward, Chennai, India on 14 April 2020, by Arun SANKAR / AFP.
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This image, taken from the archives of the World Health Organization (WHO), shows the signature of the declaration of the global eradication of smallpox on 8 May 1980.
The declaration of the global eradication of smallpox was formally signed by the President of the 33rd World Health Assembly, Dr Abdul Rahman Al-Awadi and Dr Halfdan T. Mahler, Director General of the World Health Organization on 8 May 1980.