The theme for International Women's Day 2023 is DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality.
Multiple and interwoven forms of discrimination against women and girls, based on gender inequality, undermine their health and well-being. Risks for women and girls in many parts of the world include unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections including HIV and cervical cancer, malnutrition, depression and respiratory infections.
Digital health and information platforms can improve women's and girls' health outcomes and enhance their empowerment and privacy: they enable informed health decision-making, improve access to health services, to therapies and medications, and raise awareness of women's rights, including sexual and human rights and reproductive health. and self-care interventions, WHO's Women's Health chatbot on Viber and Florence, WHO's first virtual health worker, are just a few examples of how the WHO uses digital technologies to improve women's health.
Digital education plays a transformative role in achieving gender equality and inclusion in the health workforce. Although women make up 70% of the health and care workforce in most countries, they hold only 1 in 4 health leadership positions globally and are paid significantly less for the same work . OpenWHO, a learning platform that offers nearly 200 self-paced public health courses in 65 languages, is an example of how technology is breaking down barriers to knowledge access and closing the gender gap in access to training, learning and professional development opportunities. for women.
Digital innovation, technology and education can play a key role in improving women's and girls' health and enhancing their privacy and autonomy. But recognize that women and potential girls need to be empowered and empowered to be the drivers of innovation and technological development; they must have equal access to education, training and learning; and gender and equity lenses must be applied in the design of digital technology policies and programs to reduce gender inequalities in health for lasting transformative change.
Case:
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Rising Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases Among Refugees and Migrants: A virtual event on March 8 at 2:30 p.m. GMT to discuss the burden of noncommunicable diseases on refugees and migrants and the specific challenges faced by certain noncommunicable diseases Diseases of refugees and migrants represent girls. More information and registration here.
Improving women's health through digital innovation, technology and education: The 67th session of the Commission on the Legal and Social Status of Women (CSW67) will host a flagship side event on Tuesday 7 organized with the support of Chile and Rwanda which will take place in March at 08:15 EST (14:15 CET) at UN Headquarters, Conference Room 8. This will be an in-person event (register here) and will be livestreamed live on UN WebTV Gender and Rights in NCD Prevention and Control: The Role of Digital Health: A CSW67 Side Event, co-hosted with Liberia and The Gambia, will be held on Monday, March 6 at 6:30 p.m. EST (12:30 a.m. ET). THIS). at UN Headquarters, Conference Room 8. This event will be held in person (register here) and will be broadcast live on UN WebTV.
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The theme for International Women's Day 2023 is DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality.
Read Also : What is AEW Dynamite and AEW rampage?Multiple and interwoven forms of discrimination against women and girls, based on gender inequality, undermine their health and well-being. Risks for women and girls in many parts of the world include unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections including HIV and cervical cancer, malnutrition, depression and respiratory infections.
Digital health and information platforms can improve women's and girls' health outcomes and enhance their empowerment and privacy: they enable informed health decision-making, improve access to health services, to therapies and medications, and raise awareness of women's rights, including sexual and human rights and reproductive health. and self-care interventions, WHO's Women's Health chatbot on Viber and Florence, WHO's first virtual health worker, are just a few examples of how the WHO uses digital technologies to improve women's health.
Digital education plays a transformative role in achieving gender equality and inclusion in the health workforce. Although women make up 70% of the health and care workforce in most countries, they hold only 1 in 4 health leadership positions globally and are paid significantly less for the same work . OpenWHO, a learning platform that offers nearly 200 self-paced public health courses in 65 languages, is an example of how technology is breaking down barriers to knowledge access and closing the gender gap in access to training, learning and professional development opportunities. for women.
Digital innovation, technology and education can play a key role in improving women's and girls' health and enhancing their privacy and autonomy. But recognize that women and potential girls need to be empowered and empowered to be the drivers of innovation and technological development; they must have equal access to education, training and learning; and gender and equity lenses must be applied in the design of digital technology policies and programs to reduce gender inequalities in health for lasting transformative change.
Case:
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Rising Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases Among Refugees and Migrants: A virtual event on March 8 at 2:30 p.m. GMT to discuss the burden of noncommunicable diseases on refugees and migrants and the specific challenges faced by certain noncommunicable diseases Diseases of refugees and migrants represent girls. More information and registration here.
Improving women's health through digital innovation, technology and education: The 67th session of the Commission on the Legal and Social Status of Women (CSW67) will host a flagship side event on Tuesday 7 organized with the support of Chile and Rwanda which will take place in March at 08:15 EST (14:15 CET) at UN Headquarters, Conference Room 8. This will be an in-person event (register here) and will be livestreamed live on UN WebTV Gender and Rights in NCD Prevention and Control: The Role of Digital Health: A CSW67 Side Event, co-hosted with Liberia and The Gambia, will be held on Monday, March 6 at 6:30 p.m. EST (12:30 a.m. ET). THIS). at UN Headquarters, Conference Room 8. This event will be held in person (register here) and will be broadcast live on UN WebTV.