''Protect. Invest. Together.'' World Health Worker Week (5-9 April)




For World Health Worker Week (5-9 April), let's call on policymakers to listen to health workers and then act for them. Health workers know best what they need to be safer, healthier, and more prepared to end the COVID-19 pandemic, prevent future disease outbreaks, and ensure access to essential services for their communities.

This year, we are calling on your support and action to ensure that our health and care workforces are supported, protected, motivated, and equipped to deliver safe health care at all times, not only during COVID-19. Health and care workers have protected the world during COVID-19: We have a moral obligation to protect them.

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2021 as International Year of Health and Care Workers.

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