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👇👇 TAP is live! Thanks to everyone for a great turn-out at the webinar! We'll make recordings available soon if you missed it. Who's taking the MOOC? We're looking forward to hearing from you!
TAP is now LIVE! 🚀👏💜
gate-tap.org/
ALT Url for TAP, Growing the AT workforce illustration of a person using a walking g frame
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We congratulate Mar Galcerán on her election! Parliaments must reflect society's diversity.
We call on the EU, its countries and political parties to include persons with disabilities in their list and support their candidacies: edf-feph.org/european-electi…
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🦽 Wheelchairs
👓 Glasses
🦻 Hearing aids
🦿 Prostheses
📱 Digital devices
#AssistiveTechnology helps people live with greater autonomy by facilitating daily activities they would otherwise be unable to do well or at all 👉bit.ly/3S1D03x @Unlock_Everyday @_ATscale
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📢 WHO’s Access to Assistive Technology team is creating a roster of consultants to support WHO’s work on assistive technology.
Follow the link for more info: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
#ATchangeslives #assistivetechnology #career #opportunity
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Muhammad Muharram is a wheelchair user living in #Gaza. He speaks about the terrors of daily life.
During conflict, people with disabilities face life-threatening challenges—difficulty in evacuating, shelters out of reach, and little access to healthcare and even food, water, and toilets.
WHO calls for access to health services for all, including vulnerable people who may need specialised care.
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More equitable access to health care is needed to achieve Universal Health Coverage.
In 2021, 11% of the world's population lived in countries that spent less than US$ 50 per person per year versus the average $4000 spent on health per person in high-income countries.
Learn more: bit.ly/3tj536f
#UHCDay
ALT Healthcare workers are attending a baby and a mother seated outside a health facility.
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🚨 Opportunity alert! @WHO Access to Assistive Technology Team has launched a Request for Proposals (#RFP) for a rATA project, and we're inviting your teams, entities, or organizations to submit your applications.
Follow the link for more info: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Today @WHO delivered trauma and emergency care supplies to European Gaza Hospital and Nasser Medical Complex in southern #Gaza to cover the needs of 4500 patients. So much more is needed.
The very intense fighting is making it increasingly difficult to run any health operations. This was the first delivery mission since 29 November.
Nowhere is safe.
We are extremely concerned about thousands of patients, and health and care workers.
The only way to protect them is a ceasefire. NOW.
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While your health worker should be able to suggest education programs, physical and psychological therapies, mobility aids, medicines and other options to manage low back pain, there are several ways you can improve your function and wellbeing bit.ly/487j2L8
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🚨In response to the rising need for assistive technology in emergencies, WHO has developed #TraininginAssistiveProducts emergency modules. These have been used to support WHO's work in NorthWest Syria & Ukraine. Open access to those modules coming soon! gate-tap.org/
ALT WHO health partners working to aid evacuees transiting to camps in the Syrian Arab Republic.
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📢 Announcing the launch of a brand new module on Transfer boards! A simple, affordable assistive product for moving to and from a wheelchair 👩🦽, vehicle 🚗, toilet seat 🚽, bed 🛏️ and more. Access this module ➡️ gate-tap.org/courses/transfe…
#TAP #AssistiveTechnology
ALT A person in a wheelchair with a health worker showing the bottom of a curve shaped transfer which has a grip surface.
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2.2 billion people around the globe suffer from vision impairment or blindness. In collaboration with @WHO , @UNICEF will add different vision products into the global supply catalogue. Suppliers are welcome to express their interest. To know more: lnkd.in/dW2umdYv
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"We call on you to ensure unfettered access to deliver humanitarian aid to the civilians of #Gaza;
We call on Hamas to release the hostages;
We call on Israel to restore supplies of water, electricity and fuel;
We call on both sides to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law;
We call for attacks on health care to stop, and for patients, health facilities, health infrastructure and health workers – as well as aid workers – to be protected.
And we continue to call for an end to this conflict, to prevent further deaths of civilians and further damage to Gaza’s hospitals and health facilities"-@DrTedros #UNGA
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If you have #diabetes, get regular screening for complications.
This includes screening for:
🔎 kidney disease
🔎 regular eye exams
🔎 foot assessment
Early detection is important! But many people with diabetes still do not have access to essential care.
bit.ly/3Sv1jbZ
#WorldDiabetesDay
ALT Diabetes can be treated and its complications avoided or delayed with regular screening and treatment. People with diabetes should seek regular screening for complications to aid in early detection. This includes screening for kidney disease, regular eye exams, and foot assessment.
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It was such a privilege to work on this project, addressing complications related to diabetes in Fiji & Ghana!
This year's #WorldDiabetesDay theme includes prevention of complications. In this, #AssistiveTechnology & #rehabilitation play an important role.
who.int/news-room/feature-st…
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🗓️Today is World Diabetes Day!
Around the world, the number of people living with diabetes is rising, & many do not have access to the assistive technology they need. Providing #TraininginAssistiveProducts & #rehabilitation is vital. (cont.)
#WorldDiabetesDay
ALT Group of Training in Assistive Product learners in Fiji. One learner is having a total contact cast.
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Devastated. Over 100 @UNRWA colleagues confirmed killed in 1 month.
Parents, teachers, nurses, doctors, support staff.
@UNRWA is mourning, Palestinians mourning, Israelis mourning. Ending this tragedy needs #Humanitarianceasefire now.
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📢 Today is the one year launch anniversary of Training in Assistive Products (#TAP) 🎉!
TAP is a ground-breaking online interactive learning resource that teaches how to provide simple assistive products. Want to know more? Check this out ➡️youtu.be/A_f7xPgQcDE
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Suitable assistive products provided by trained personnel can have a positive impact on health, participation, and well-being. For the past year, we've been growing the global #ATWorkforce #ATChangesLives.
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bit.ly/TraininginAssistivePr…
ALT Primary health personnel in India adjusting walking frame height.
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Everyone is likely to need assistive technology during their lifetime. People who most need assistive technology include 1️⃣ person with disabilities 2️⃣ older people 3️⃣ people with noncommunicable diseases.
#Assistivetechnology 🤳🦿🦻🦼👓@WHO
ALT A person with glasses using a sewing machine.
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We are running out of words. #Gaza