| No images? Click here  Friday, 11 April 2025 | Issue 299  Kangaroo mother care, Ethiopia, 2021  Monday, 14 April World Chagas Disease Day The theme this year is "Prevent, Control, Care: Everyone’s role in Chagas disease". This year’s campaign hopes to increase public awareness of Chagas disease and secure greater funding for early diagnosis and comprehensive follow-up care initiatives. Chagas disease predominantly affects impoverished populations in Latin America, but is increasingly spreading across continents. With 7 million infections globally and significant mortality rates, it poses a substantial public health threat. An estimated 10 000 people die from Chagas disease every year, and over 100 million people are at risk of acquiring the disease. For more information on Chagas Disease and the WHO Chagas Disease day campaign, please visit https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-chagas-disease-day/2025  Tuesday, 15 April Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum 15 to 17 April 2025 The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum is taking place from 15 to 17 April 2025 at the UN Headquarters in New York. The Forum provides youth with opportunities to discuss concrete actions and commitments to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A plenary session on SDG3: Youth and Health – overcoming challenges and staying healthy, co-led by the WHO Youth Council, will take place on Tuesday, 15 April at 11:30 AM EDT and can be viewed on UN WebTV.  Wednesday, 16 April Global Disability Summit The utility of pathogen genomics: spotlight mpox (WHO EPI-WIN webinar) 16 April, 13.00 to 14.00 CEST, webinar This webinar will spotlight the use of genomics in expanding our understanding of mpox transmission dynamics and its role in strengthening the overall surveillance for public health interventions, with a forward look towards the need for sustained genomics surveillance. Further information and registration: here. ********** Launch of the WHO technical guide on measuring and monitoring quality of care to improve maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services 16 April, 14.00 to 15.30 CEST, webinar This guide and an accompanying health information system landscape assessment tool are designed to support programme managers, policymakers, and health practitioners in strengthening the measurement and monitoring of quality of care to improve health services, with a special focus on maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health. Further information and registration: here.  Also of interest:
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