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WHO challenges world to improve air quality
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 4:59 pm | World Health Organisation
Manila , 5 October 2006―The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued a challenge to governments around the world to improve air quality in their cities in order to protect people's health. The call comes as WHO unveils its new Air Quality Guidelines ... More >>
WHO wraps up weeklong study of W Pacific health
Friday, 22 September 2006, 10:34 am | World Health Organisation
The World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Region today closed its 57th annual meeting after a week of deliberations in which member countries undertook to step up their defences against emerging diseases, including avian influenza, and were ... More >>
WHO backs health sector response to HIV pandemic
Friday, 22 September 2006, 10:33 am | World Health Organisation
The World Health Organization Western Pacific Region, in collaboration with international partner agencies, is seeking to scale up HIV/AIDS prevention and control activities in line with the goal of universal access for HIV/AIDS treatment throughout Asia ... More >>
Rising workforce exodus threatens health systems
Friday, 22 September 2006, 10:31 am | World Health Organisation
A meeting here of senior health officials from the Western Pacific region was told that public health services in some countries risked being brought to their knees by the continuing exodus of health workers to wealthier nations. More >>
WHO calls for bold action to cut TB rates in half
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 9:28 am | World Health Organisation
Having successfully met its 2005 targets for tuberculosis control, the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region now confronts an even tougher challenge in the second phase of the Stop TB Special Project: reducing by half the number of TB cases ... More >>
Reducing alcohol-related harm
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 3:30 pm | World Health Organisation
WHO draws up measures to reduce alcohol-related harm Fifty-seventh session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific 18-22 September 2006, Auckland, New Zealand More >>
WHO urges Member States to prepare for a pandemic
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 5:09 pm | World Health Organisation
The increasing threat from emerging infectious diseases makes it imperative that countries prepare for rapid response and containment activities and for a worst-case scenario such as an influenza pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised ... More >>
Immunization maintains strong over last 25 years
Wednesday, 5 October 2005, 6:13 pm | World Health Organisation
4 OCTOBER 2005 | LYON, FRANCE -- Immunization at the global level has progressed very well during the past 25 years, but further increases in coverage would save the lives of millions more who do not yet benefit from this protection, said a group ... More >>
WHO: emergency measures against malaria in Niger
Thursday, 22 September 2005, 9:09 pm | World Health Organisation
GENEVA -- Seeking to avert a second wave of deaths among Niger’s undernourished children, the World Health Organization (WHO) is dispatching 100 000 antimalarial treatments to the west African country, where peak malaria season has begun in the midst of ... More >>
Chernobyl: the true scale of the accident
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 8:27 pm | World Health Organisation
GENEVA -- A total of up to 4000 people could eventually die of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident nearly 20 years ago, an international team of more than 100 scientists has concluded. More >>
WHO urge responsible use of antimalarial medicines
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 8:22 pm | World Health Organisation
GENEVA -- In a new report published today, “Susceptibility of Plasmodium Falciparum to Antimalarial Drugs,” the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that as more and more people gain access to these life-saving malaria medicines—which combine a drug ... More >>
WHO: Role of Health Professionals in Tobacco Cntrl
Wednesday, 1 June 2005, 10:49 am | World Health Organisation
On “World No Tobacco Day”, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) is urging health professionals to be more proactive in minimizing the problems caused by tobacco addiction, consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke. More >>
WHO recommends influenza vaccine composition
Friday, 11 February 2005, 11:52 am | World Health Organisation
Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Influenza Programme convenes meetings to analyse the global data on circulating influenza virus strains and make recommendations for the vaccine to be used for the coming influenza season. WHO also ... More >>
Campaign To Vaccinate 80 Million Children In India
Monday, 7 April 2003, 7:42 am | World Health Organisation
With India the number one priority polio eradication, the United Nations lead health agency today launched a massive immunization campaign to vaccinate more than 80 million children in the epicentre of the epidemic. More >>
WHO Report Calls On Countries To Tackle Tobacco
Thursday, 31 October 2002, 10:54 am | World Health Organisation
"Focussing on New Zealand's biggest health risks such as tobacco can reduce inequalities, adding life to years as well as years to life," according to Dr Anthony Rodgers, the New Zealand principal author of the World Health Organisation's ... More >>
WHO Announces Regional Health Awards
Friday, 31 May 2002, 6:13 pm | World Health Organisation
Cambodia's national football team, a government unit in a Pacific island, a health council in New Zealand, and a badminton coach and a sports administrator from China have won health awards from the World Health Organization's Western Pacific Region*. More >>
World Cup To Be Tobacco Free - FIFA Bags Award
Friday, 31 May 2002, 1:35 pm | World Health Organisation
The World Health Organization's highest tobacco control award was given to the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in recognition of its tobacco control work, culminating in its decision to declare the 2002 World Cup tobacco free. More >>
Access to free TB drugs
Tuesday, 27 March 2001, 9:30 pm | World Health Organisation
WHO And Stop TB Launch New Initiative To Increase Access To Free TB Drugs: The Global TB Drug Facility More >>
Pesticides, low quality in developing countries
Sunday, 4 February 2001, 11:53 am | World Health Organisation
30 % of pesticides sold in developing countries with an estimated market value of US$900 million annually do not meet internationally accepted quality standards. More >>
