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WHO Urges Governments To Revitalize Health Care
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 9:31 am | World Health Organisation
The World Health Organization says strengthening health systems, with primary health care as a guiding principle, is vital if countries are to make significant progress towards achieving internationally agreed global health goals. More >>
WHO Names West Pacific Regional Director-Nominee
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 10:09 am | World Health Organisation
Dr Shin Young-Soo of the Republic of Korea was today nominated to be the World Health Organization's next Regional Director for the Western Pacific. More >>
WHO to nominate a new leader for Western Pacific
Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 4:28 pm | World Health Organisation
Candidates from Malaysia, the Republic of Korea and Tonga are to compete next week for the post of Regional Director of the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization. More >>
WHO Urges Solidarity In Battle Against Tobacco
Friday, 14 September 2007, 4:47 pm | World Health Organisation
Smoking kills more than 3000 people in the Western Pacific Region each day. The Region has one third of the world's smokers, the highest percentage of male smokers and the fastest increase of smoking among children and young women. More >>
WHO Focuses On More Balanced Health Care
Friday, 14 September 2007, 9:07 am | World Health Organisation
WHO is concerned that health systems and services have become so disease focused, technology driven and doctor dominated that they fail to respond to patient needs and expectations. More >>
Affordable Drugs Needed For Diseases Of Poverty
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 4:25 pm | World Health Organisation
The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken the lead in addressing the availability and accessibility of drugs and vaccines often associated with "diseases of poverty" to people in developing countries. More >>
WHO Warns Against Complacency With Avian Influenza
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 11:23 am | World Health Organisation
Warning against complacency, WHO has urged Member States not to drop their guard against the threat posed by avian influenza. The world faced extremely serious consequences, with the threat of a human flu pandemic showing no signs of abating. More >>
Combating The Problem Of Multidrug-resistant TB
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 4:16 pm | World Health Organisation
Dr Shigeru Omi, World Health Organization Regional Director for the Western Pacific, today called for greater political commitment in addressing the growing epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region. More >>
Slow Decline Rate In Maternal And Child Mortality
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 12:09 am | World Health Organisation
Reduction of child mortality and improvement of maternal health are included in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals signed by world leaders in September 2000. It seeks to reduce child mortality by two thirds and reduce maternal mortality ... More >>
WHO's Work In The Western Pacific
Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 11:52 am | World Health Organisation
The Regional Committee for the Western Pacific began its five-day review of the World Health Organization's work in Asia and the Pacific to ensure that WHO's health programmes, in collaboration with Member States, are effective and are on track. More >>
Spread Of Disease A Threat To Economies, Security
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 5:03 pm | World Health Organisation
More than at any previous time in history, global public health security depends on international cooperation and the willingness of all countries to act effectively in tackling new and emerging threats. More >>
Bangkok Declaration For Environment, Health Action
Saturday, 11 August 2007, 12:30 pm | World Health Organisation
Ministers and high level officials of environment and health in South-East and East Asian countries today endorsed the Bangkok Declaration on Environment and Health in a collective effort to reduce the estimated 6.6 million deaths in Asia each year ... More >>
WHO alarmed about the spread of dengue
Tuesday, 24 July 2007, 10:23 am | World Health Organisation
Manila, 23 July 2007-The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the Western Pacific Region may be heading for a major dengue outbreak unless concerted effort and cooperation are undertaken quickly. More >>
Experts Discuss Global Warming Health Threats
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 4:26 pm | World Health Organisation
Kuala Lumpur, 28 June 2007— International experts will meet here from 2 to 5 July to discuss the threat to health posed by global warming in the Asia Pacific region. With global mean temperature forecast to increase by as much as 6ºC by the end of ... More >>
WHO and UNICEF call for renewed commitment
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 9:43 am | World Health Organisation
Manila, 20 June 2007 - Exclusive breastfeeding rates in East Asia and the Pacific are just 61% at four months of babies' lives and even lower, at 35%, at six months. And yet science has established that exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months ... More >>
Drug-resistant tuberculosis threatens the Pacific
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 6:49 pm | World Health Organisation
Manila , 22 March 2007—Tuberculosis will be 200 times more costly to treat and might even become almost impossible to cure unless bolder steps are taken to tackle drug-resistant tuberculosis, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. More >>
WHO Global Fund representatives attend meeting
Thursday, 15 March 2007, 5:40 pm | World Health Organisation
Port Vila, Vanuatu, 13 March 2007 - Representatives of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have travelled from Geneva to attend this year's Pacific Health Ministers' meeting in Port Vila, Vanuatu, from 12-15 March 2007. More >>
WHO applauds TB control efforts
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 9:28 am | World Health Organisation
Kuching, Malaysia, 12 March 2007- The World Health Organization (WHO) today said that countries in the Western Pacific Region have made good progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), but the battle is far from over. More >>
Mass burials in natural disasters unnecessary
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 4:32 pm | World Health Organisation
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific has issued recommendations and guidelines to dispel myths in the aftermath of typhoon Reming (Durian) that has claimed many lives. Dr Art Pesigan, WHO Regional Adviser in Emergency ... More >>
WHO calls for accountability in the HIV/AIDS fight
Friday, 1 December 2006, 9:34 am | World Health Organisation
Press Release Public Information Office Tel: (63 2) 528 9991 Email : PIO_Unit@wpro.who.int WHO calls for accountability in the fight against HIV/AIDS More >>
