Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures, a year long campaign for World Health Day which urges governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being. Today messages from advocates, psychologists and behaviour change specialists continue press for a ban on unhealthy foods and the marketing of these products in schools.

The Chairman of the Barbados Water Authority shared a message to mark the day which is celebrated each year having as its theme, for 2025 “Glacier Preservation,” highlighting glaciers’ critical role in regulating river flows.