Director of Health and Migration @WHO. Views are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.
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Santino Severoni retweeted
Gracias a @severonis, Candelaria Araoz y a todo el equipo de la @WHO, que conforma la Iniciativa de salud y migración.
Fue un gusto estar con ustedes por segundo año consecutivo, dar mi parte para aportar al éxito del evento y aprender de su profesionalismo y conciencia.
Santino Severoni retweeted
All Nobel prize winners deserve our admiration — we at UNHCR wish to congratulate in particular Omar Yaghi, who was awarded the #Nobel prize for chemistry yesterday and who grew up in Jordan in a Palestinian refugee family from Gaza.
Respect.
Santino Severoni retweeted
This week, @WHO joins the @WorldBank and partners at a regional meeting on mpox response and other health emergencies.
The meeting aims to strengthen cross-border coordination and share lessons for effective mpox control.
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📍Nairobi, Kenya
📅13-14 May – at Nairobi, Kenya
Santino Severoni retweeted
"What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest." — Kofi Annan (1938-2018)
#MondayMotivation
Santino Severoni retweeted
To strengthen our health systems, we must formalize and empower community health workers! @dianaFrymus emphasized that equitable protections and support are essential for delivering quality services and advancing gender equity in healthcare. let’s uplift our communities! 🌍
Santino Severoni retweeted
#WorldRefugeeDay comes but once a year, but 120 million refugees around the world need access to health care every day.
We thank host countries for their effort to provide care to everyone in need.
We thank partners for their collaboration to protect the most vulnerable.
Today, and every day, we work for #HealthForAll refugees.
Santino Severoni retweeted
Since the start of the conflict in #Sudan, nearly 2 million people have fled across the borders, becoming refugees. They have pressing health needs.
Outbreaks of cholera, dengue, malaria, measles, hepatitis-E, and yellow fever are concerning. @WHO helps with the delivery of essential health services for refugees to save lives.
In June, high temperatures have led to heat stroke and dehydration among those fleeing through the desert.
The rainy season will bring with it new challenges, including flooding.
So far, WHO has allocated $16 million from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies for response to the Sudan crisis, including responding to the health needs of the refugees in Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia and South Sudan.
This allows health workers on the ground to ensure critical services: from mental health services to safe delivery of babies to quick detection and treatment of cholera cases and more.
On #WorldRefugeeDay, I thank all health workers, partners and WHO staff, who bring these life-saving services to refugees who have suffered so much.
Santino Severoni retweeted
"The policy landscape on migration and health is changing. But we need more data to inform policy makers" by @severonis at @Genevaforum . – at Geneva, Switzerland
Santino Severoni retweeted
@WHO started the health system review in🇪🇪as part of the #EU4Health project!
WHO works with @IOMatEU & @EU_Health to support countries in improving the access to health-care services for #refugees & displaced people from🇺🇦
Also, thanks to @StatePRM for supporting this review!
Santino Severoni retweeted
Over 50,000 displaced people from Ukraine🇺🇦 have sought temporary protection in Estonia🇪🇪 so far.
Today, @WHO is meeting with key health stakeholders to review the health system's capacity to address their health needs in🇪🇪
#EU4Health @EU_Health @StatePRM @SoMinEstonia
Santino Severoni retweeted
4 out of every 10 people worldwide live in countries where governments spend more on debt interest payments than on education or health.
Money is flowing in the wrong direction — from the countries who need it to the countries who don’t.
news.un.org/en/story/2024/04…
Santino Severoni retweeted
Durante la reunión con el cluster salud en 🇨🇴 , por medio de los retos y lecciones aprendidas para la atención de migrantes pendulares, en tránsito, en permanencia y retornados, se demostró cómo la coordinación ha contribuido de manera significativa en la respuesta en salud.
Santino Severoni retweeted
Durante su visita a Colombia, el director mundial de salud y migración de @WHO, Severoni Santino, se reunió con el viceministro de salud, Jaime Urrego, quien destacó la importancia de que el país sea sede de la Escuela Global de Migración y Salud, en 2024.
Santino Severoni retweeted
A team from @WHO Health and Migration Program is in country to conduct a Refugee and Migrants Health Country assessment. This is to review health system and essential public health functions, capacities to provide essential health services for refugees and host communities.
Santino Severoni retweeted
The outcome of this assessment is to support the development of informed and evidence-based health interventions that build on existing capacities, appreciate gaps and opportunities contributing to reduction of morbidity, mortality and health inequity among refugees and migrants.
Santino Severoni retweeted
#Uganda is home to 1.5 million refugees from DRC, Somalia, Burundi etc. Of these 94% live in settlements across 13 host districts while 6% live in Kampala.
Santino Severoni retweeted
"#Uganda has over 2339 health workers supporting refugee camps to ensure the health of refugees, migrants & host communities. We welcome this assessment to identify best practices & lessons learned to improve decision-making," Dr @DKyabayinze, Dir of Public Health @MinofHealthUG.
Santino Severoni retweeted
#Uganda hosts over 1.6million refugees & asylum seekers.
Dr @severonis, @WHO Dir of Health & Migration is in #Uganda to assess the country's capacity to address refugees' & migrants' health needs to improve resource mobilization.
@MinofHealthUG @IOM_Uganda @OPMUganda @UNHCRuganda
