Top Global Health Moments of 2021

By The Editorial Team, IntraHealth International Chemutai, a health worker at the Kaproron Health Center IV in Kween District, Uganda, stands in the operating room for maternal care, which officially opened in May 2020. Photo by Esther Ruth Mbabazi for IntraHealth International.December 21, 2021COVID-19 dominated the news cycle this year. The first large-scale global pandemic in 100 years has now killed more than5 million peopleworldwide since it began in 2020. Over 275 million people have been diagnosed with it. And at least115,000 health workers have lost their lives to the virus, though the number is likely much higher.But while COVID-19 is affecting every aspect of global health and development right now, there was much more to 2021. Here are some of the moments that caught our attention this year:January: WHO declares 2021 the Year of the Health and Care Worker.For the first time ever, the World Health Organization and global health communitydedicated this year to a group of people we at IntraHealth have been passionate about for over 40 years, and who’ve put their lives on the line to respond to COVID-19: health workers.These past two years have showed us how crucial health workers are to not only pandemic response but to keeping essential health services available every day. Health workers put themselves at great risk to save the lives of others and as COVID-19 continues into 2022, health workers will be just as important." If we&rsquo...
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: HIV & AIDS COVID-19 Maternal, Newborn, Child Health Mental Health Noncommunicable Diseases 2021 Year of the Health and Care Worker Health Workforce Systems Health Workers Source Type: news