In May 2018, the WHO Director-General announced a global call for action to eliminate cervical cancer, underscoring renewed political will to make elimination a reality and calling for all stakeholders to unite behind this common goal.

In August 2020 the World Health Assembly adopted the Global Strategy for cervical cancer elimination.

The C4H approach encourages communicators to focus on health outcomes and impact. Harnessing insights from social, behavioural and communication sciences, C4H works to increase knowledge, change attitudes and shift behaviours for improved health outcomes at the individual, community and societal levels.

The initiative will build on the “Focusing Resources on Effective School Health” (FRESH) partnership. Led by a WHO/UNESCO task force, an external advisory group is being created including other UN agencies, and contributors from universities, international networks, institutions, international and regional Civil Society Organizations representing the education and health sectors.

The initiative supports malaria elimination across 6 countries of the Greater Mekong subregion (GMS) – Cambodia, China (Yunnan province), the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. MME’s key area of work include partnership coordination, advocacy and communication, as well as leading technical support on cross-country projects, regional/country surveillance, national malaria elimination intensification plans, and aggressive approaches.

The WHO Access to Oxygen Initiative provides technical and operational support to Member States.  This includes identifying and implementing holistic solutions to enable a resilient oxygen ecosystem.

WHO Patients for Patients Safety (PFPS) is a programme of WHO Flagship Initiative “A Decade of Patient Safety 2021-2030” that engages and empowers patients and families and facilitates their partnership with health professionals and policy-makers to make health care services safer worldwide. PFPS was set up in 2005 with a vision is to engage, empower, encourage and facilitate patients and families to build and/or participate in global networks advocating for, and partnering with health professionals and policy makers to make health care services safer, more integrated, and people-centred for all.