INVITATION TO THE MEDIA: Brussels VI Conference Virtual Side Event - Health and the impact of the socio-economic crisis in Syria, Friday, 6 May 10.00 Brussels / 11.00 Damascus

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No images? Click here Monday, 2 May 2022 INVITATION TO THE MEDIA Brussels VI Conference Virtual Side Event: Health and the impact of the socio-economic crisis in Syria Friday, 6 May from 10.00 to 11.30 Brussels / 11.00 to 12.30 Damascus Nearly one out of three persons in Syria are internally displaced today, with limited access to health care and other basic services.  Syria’s protracted crisis and socio-economic decline are pushing millions more people into deeper poverty and increased vulnerability to multiple health threats. Hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),this virtual side event will focus on new multilateral partnerships and actions needed now to revitalize Syria’s severely disrupted healthcare system. Speakers: Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr Khalida Bouzar, Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and UNDP Regional Director for Arab States Mr Luca Maestripieri, AICS Director Dr Mazen Kewara, Country Director, Syrian American Medical Society Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme The side event will be streamed on Zoom, with simultaneous translation available in English, Arabic and French. Join us for this panel discussion with Q&A that will focus on new multilateral partnerships and actions needed now to revitalize Syria’s severely degraded healthcare system. Register for the event: https://who-e.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1kshbG7sQNukk5DhiUGR3A Submit a question in advance: http://www.emro.who.int/askemro/ The event will also be livestreamed @: Twitter (English): www.twitter.com/WHOEMRO    Facebook (Arabic): www.facebook.com/WHOEMRO YouTube (French]: www.youtube.com/whoemr Media contacts: WHO: Gulalek Soltanova soltanovag@who.int UNDP: Theodore Murphy theodore.murphy@undp.org AICS: Fausta Genovese fausta.genovese@aics.gov.it   You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. If you have been forwarded this update you can click here to subscribe. Journalists may send feedback to WHO Media Team         Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland  Unsubscribe