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Thursday, 17 April 2025 | Issue 300 Nurse Julia explains the importance of vaccinations to a family at a ranch in 
Wednesday, 23 April New guidelines on adolescent pregnancy prevention On Wednesday, 23 April WHO will release a new guideline aimed at preventing adolescent pregnancy and its significant related health complications. The guideline includes a number of important recommendations with a particular focus on ending child marriage, extending girls’ schooling, and improving young people’s access to and use of contraception – all critical factors for reducing early pregnancies among teenagers around the world. More than 21 million adolescent girls become pregnant each year in low and middle-income countries, around half of which are unintended. Early pregnancy brings serious health risks, including relatively higher rates of infections and preterm births as well as complications from unsafe abortions – linked to particular challenges in accessing safe and respectful care. Complications relating to adolescent pregnancy are the leading cause of death globally among 15-19 year old girls. This guideline updates an earlier edition of the guideline on adolescent pregnancy prevention from 2011, and complements WHO’s related guidance around health services for adolescents, comprehensive sexuality education, and gender-based violence. Please write to keenanl@who.int with a copy to mediainquiries@who.int to obtain embargoed copy or to request an interview with one of the WHO experts. ********** WHO EPI-WIN Webinar: The New Face of Pandemic Preparedness (Part 1) 23 April 09.00 to 10.00 CEST, webinar The webinar will feed into the 2025 report by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) themed “The New Face of Pandemic Preparedness”. The discussion will highlight the salient impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on short- and long-term consequences across sectors and regions, explore how these impacts are driving revisions of pandemic preparedness strategies and National Action Plans for Health Security, and identify key lessons, policy gaps, and forward-looking strategies to build more resilient preparedness systems. Further information and registration: here. 
24 to 30 April 2025 World Immunization Week 2025 Over the last 50 years, essential vaccines have saved at least 154 million lives and increased infant survival by 40%. However, hard-won gains in stamping out diseases that are preventable through vaccination are in jeopardy. Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, meningitis, and yellow fever are rising globally. In response, WHO, UNICEF and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance are calling for urgent and sustained investment to strengthen immunization systems programmes and protect significant progress achieved in reducing child mortality over the past 50 years. Under the banner, ‘Immunization for All is Humanly Possible’, World Immunization Week 2025 aims to ensure even more children, adolescents, adults – and their communities – are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases. Further information about WIW and campaign assets can be accessed here. 
Friday, 25 April World Malaria Day 2025 - Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite On World Malaria Day 2025, WHO joins the RBM Partnership to End Malaria and other partners in promoting “Malaria Ends With Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite”, a grassroots campaign that aims to re-energize efforts at all levels, from global policy to community action, to accelerate progress towards malaria elimination. Since 2000, investments in the global malaria response have prevented more than 2 billion cases and nearly 13 million deaths. Yet efforts to control and eliminate malaria are in jeopardy as communities and programmes face the fallout of recent funding cuts. In 2023 alone, malaria claimed nearly 600 000 lives, with an estimated 95% of these deaths occurring in the WHO African Region Further information: here. 
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