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HLH Newsletter
May 2023
Welcome to the HLH Newsletter!
The HLH is a WHO knowledge platform to share cross-country learning on maintaining essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the post-pandemic recovery. Learn more about us here.
The HLH Newsletter is a place to share up-to-date information on key knowledge products from WHO and the Network of Networks. If you have any queries or wish to contribute, please email us: hlh@who.int.
HLH update
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Other WHO news:
Fourth round of the global pulse survey on continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic: November 2022–January 2023
WHO has just published the findings from the fourth round of the pulse survey on continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. This pulse survey includes 139 countries, territories and areas that participated in survey during November 2022 – January 2023 (with late submissions accepted until 10 March 2023). The findings offer critical insight from country key informants into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on essential health services, the main challenges health systems are facing to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic while maintaining other essential health service delivery, and how countries are responding to mitigate disruptions, recover services, and ultimately strengthen health system and services resilience and preparedness for future health emergencies.
Join World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May 2023 to accelerate action together!
Across many settings globally, there is a critical need to increase investments to close gaps in infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene. Indeed, many countries are demonstrating strong engagement and advancements in scaling-up those actions, but overall, the progress is slow, and gains are at risk.
Strong and engaged communities of health workers, policy makers and civil society organizations (CSOs) can accelerate and sustain action at the point of care to keep people safe and healthy. Join WHO’s hand hygiene campaign and take action to accelerate progress at achieving effective hand hygiene at point of care! Click here for more information and to get involved!
Special edition of Frontiers in Public Health: Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict
A special collection on Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict, with Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, DDG, WHO; Prof Duncan Selbie, President, IANPHI; and Dr Sohel Saikat, Lead, Health Systems Resilience and EPHFs, WHO, as Editors, is being published. This unique and operationally focused collection of 25 articles provides a forum for experiences and learnings including from policy- and decision-makers who led and were at the frontlines of the COVID-19 response. It provides consolidated country-level, regional and global perspectives to inform health systems recovery and reform and highlights the need for targeted investments in recovery and resilience. The learning captured in the manuscripts is from more than 60 countries representing all six WHO regions.
Multimedia:
Community engagement: Maintaining essential health services while responding to COVID-19 in Lao PDR
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