Looking ahead, our priorities are clear:
✅ Empower local influencers & amplify voices.
✅ Strengthen coordination among health institutions, NGOs, & frontline workers.
✅ Use digital tools for accurate, timely communication.
#WHOImpact #WHOEurope #WHEBalkanHub #CommunityEngagement
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👉#NAPHS is a prioritized costed plan to improve 🇽🇰 #health #security by providing a 🎯roadmap for strengthening its systems to prevent and respond to #health #emergencies.
#UnitedActionForBetterHealth #HealthForAll #WHOImpact #Preparedness #Readiness #WHEBalkanHub #EUKosovo #EUNear #WHOEurope
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🤝 Proud to join #WHO Pristina Office colleagues & health authorities as 🇽🇰Kosovo* marks a major milestone in #health #security with the launch of its Action Plan for Health Security (#NAPHS). A stronger health system means better protection for all. #WHEBalkanHub
(*In line with UNSCR 1244 (1999))
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👉 To prepare for, and respond to health emergencies in this age of #permacrisis, I had the pleasure to meet with our colleagues in Pristina to initiate developing an All-hazards #RCCE-#IM Plan 📝
#WHEBalkanHub #WHOPristinaOffice @WHO_Europe
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👉 The World Health Organization’s #NAPHS is a prioritized costed plan to improve countries’ #HealthSecurity, providing a 🎯roadmap for strengthening their systems to prevent and respond to health emergencies.
#ZdravstvoMK 🇲🇰 #EU 🇪🇺 #WHOEurope #WHONorthMacedonia #WHEBalkanHub #WHOImpact
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✍️ Learning and 📑working with #NAPHS will help advance health security in North Macedonia 🇲🇰 by engaging partners, securing resources and building capacities for the implementation of the #IHR (2005).
#EU 🇪🇺 #WHOEurope #WHONorthMacedonia #WHEBalkanHub #WHOImpact #UnitedActionForBetterHealth
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4⃣0⃣+ experts from across sectors in 🇲🇰 came together with support from #WHO and financial assistance from the #EU 🇪🇺 to develop #NAPHS, advancing health security by engaging partners, securing resources and building capacities for #IHR (2005) implementation.
#WHOEurope #WHEBalkanHub #WHONorthMacedonia #WHOImpact
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🤝 Privileged and honored to have joined out #WHONorthMacedonia Team in launching the national action plan for health security (NAPHS)
🚩A milestone achievement ensuring the country’s health system can🛡️protect its people from disease threats, as North Macedonia 🇲🇰 becomes the 1️⃣st country in #WesternBalkans to adopt a #NAPHS.
#EU 🇪🇺 #WHOEurope #WHEBalkanHub
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Mobile health #caravans rally the #WesternBalkans to #COVID19 #vaccination, bringing #health advice closer to where people are, @WHO_Europe says.
#VaccinesSaveLives #VaccinesWork #ProudToBeWHO #WHEBalkanHub #HealthForAll
Over the course of 2022–2023, 4 mobile health caravans have been touring remote and under-served locations in the Western Balkans to make sure vulnerable people have access to COVID-19 vaccination and the public health advice they need to protect themselves. To bring vaccination, health care and health recommendations to the heart of communities, with the support of WHO and partners, national and equivalent public health authorities have organized health caravans in Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Kosovo[1]. In addition to increasing access to various health services, the health caravans provide an opportunity for risk communication and community engagement (RCCE). When they visit, 2-way dialogue between health care providers and community members means that caravan staff can answer questions and better understand the needs of communities and their barriers to accessing health care.
Thanas Goga