WHO | Week Ahead for media | 11 February 2022

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Friday 02.11.22 | Issue 144

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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) updates

A virtual press briefing with simultaneous translation in all UN languages with the participation of the WHO Director-General is expected for next week. Media advisories with Zoom links/dial-in details will be emailed in advance. For the latest news from WHO on COVID-19 and other breaking health stories, read WHO's news updates.

Monday, 14 February

Webinar: The role of sexual pleasure in sexual and reproductive health and rights

A new review from WHO and the Pleasure Project shows that sexual health programmes that consider sexual desire and sexual pleasure, not only risk of disease, can better improve knowledge and attitudes around sex – as well as safer sex practices such as condom use.

Timed for Valentine’s Day, a special technical webinar will present these findings in more detail and spotlight effective interventions and key learnings from the review.

Register here. More information on sexual health.
The review will be available on PLOS One.

Tuesday, 15 February

Summary brief on recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy

WHO will publish a new brief on COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy, based on recent interim recommendations from the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) for vaccines approved under WHO’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL) as of 31 January 2022.

Note, this brief does not update current SAGE recommendations, but rather aims to provide one accessible source of reference on COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy.

More about SAGE. Q&A on COVID, pregnancy and childbirth

Season finale of Global Health Matters

Listen to the season finale of the Global Health Matters podcast episode on “Actions for decolonizing global health”.

Host Garry Aslanyan speaks with the following guests:

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Check out the WHO series, Science in 5.

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