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This year 2024, the IF International Youth Group SBH would like to take this opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of several mental health related topics, including the role of friendships, sports and exercises, body confidence and self-esteem, and physical health. When? August 12!

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IF urges for actions during the 17th session of the Conference of State Parties to the UN CRPD (COSP17). The overarching theme is “Rethinking disability inclusion in the current international juncture and ahead of the Summit of the Future”.

In this annual report 2023, the actions achieved for human rights, primary prevention, optimising management and care, raising awareness, as well as international solidarity are highlighted.

Victorial Sandoval is the new President of The International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus.

This year marks the seventy-seventh World Health Assembly (WHA77) where we celebrate one year one year after the WHO EB decided to recommend to the WHA76 the adoption the resolution ‘Accelerating efforts for preventing micronutrient deficiencies and their consequences, including spina bifida and other neural tube defects, through safe and effective food fortification’.