Ensuring that a health worker is within reach, trained and equipped can prevent a child or mother dying; without them this and other advancement in health care cannot happen. However, the world is suffering from a massive gap of more than 3.5 million health workers and we need your help to change this.
In September around the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, countries will meet to assess progress on women and children’s health and discuss ways forward. We want to make this a crunch moment – an opportunity for a major political breakthrough on health workers.
Over a million people and 260 organisations around the world have shown support to the campaign but we need more. By 20 September we want to see a global movement of over 3 million people signed up to the Health Worker Statement so we can put pressure on world leaders to significantly expand the number of health workers and provide them with better support.
Five Things you can do
1. Join with over a million other people in signing the Health Worker Statement
By 20 September we want to see a global movement of over 3 million people signed up to the campaign so we can put pressure on world leaders to significantly expand the number of health workers and provide them with better support.
2. Equip Yourself
Read more about what the campaign is exactly calling for here
Download our ‘Health Worker Breakthrough’ campaign toolkit here
Download a life-size banner of the campaign plaster/band-aid here
Post a campaign plaster/band-aid on your blog or website by coping and pasting the
following embed code
Get Code here
3. Blogs and Vlogs
Post your health worker stories or creative videos and photos of what you have done with the
plaster/band-aid here and get featured on http://healthworkerscount.org
4. Facebook
Read the stories, view the photos and videos on http://healthworkerscount.org from the ‘LATEST NEWS’ section and share on your Facebook profile and encourage your friends to visit the site and sign up
5. Twitter
Tweet stories of health workers using the #healthworkers hash tag. Using a hash tag makes it
easier for people to search our tweets under a same common topic, the more people use the #
hash tag, the easier it is to find, and the more trendy it becomes
Follow @healthworkers and retweet content to your followers