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The World Health Assembly has given a powerful endorsement to new strategic directions for child and adolescent health. The strategy brings together crucial elements to reduce childhood deaths and long term disability. It also aims to reduce the 1.4 million adolescent deaths e...
The global health community has taken a key step towards ensuring rapid action against future outbreaks of infectious diseases and other threats to international public health. A resolution adopted today confirms and underlines the World Health Organization’s (WHO) authority t...
Today, the World Health Organization is removing Taiwan, China, from the list of areas with recent local transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Taiwan is the last area to be removed from the list. It has been 20 days, or two consecutive 10-day incubation per...
HIV/AIDS given new focus and priority Dr LEE Jong-wook takes office today as Director-General of the World Health Organization, with a pledge to focus the organization on HIV/AIDS, on achieving results in countries, and on helping to tackle the widespread human resources crisi...
Today, the World Health Organization announced that a new pathogen, a member of the coronavirus family never before seen in humans, is the cause of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The speed at which this virus was identified is the result of the close international ...
Remarks by Dr Ibrahima Socé Fall, World Health Organization Assistant Director-General, Emergency Response Good afternoon. I hope that your busy week was interrupted, like mine, with a moment of joy on Tuesday.That moment was the celebration of a woman being discharged from an...
WHO calls on industry and governments to increase manufacturing by 40 per cent to meet rising global demandThe World Health Organization has warned that severe and mounting disruption to the global supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) – caused by rising demand, panic ...
This briefing to update you on CDC's 2019 Novel Coronavirus response. We are joined today by Dr. Nancy Messonnier Director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and rear admiral Denise Hinton from the food and drug administrations, she is the chief...
This briefing to update you on CDC's 2019 Novel Coronavirus response. We are joined today by Dr. Nancy Messonnier Director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and rear admiral Denise Hinton from the food and drug administrations, she is the chief...
Measles strategy works – Now it must expand to more countriesCape Town Measles Declaration pledges to cut measles deaths by half By 2005, almost half a million children will be saved every year if there are expanded efforts to immunize and protect all children against measles,...
Secretary Alex Azar will hold a press conference alongside CDC, NCIRD, and NIAID providing details on the Department's coordinated public health response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.
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. That is the clear message of this year's World health report entitled A s...
WHO is calling on countries to be increasingly vigilant in monitoring antimalarial drug efficacy in order to allow for early detection of artemisinin resistance.1 This is one among several conclusions of the Global report on antimalarial drug efficacy and drug resistance: 2000...
After a week of negotiations continued through Friday night and into Saturday morning, an open-ended working-group meeting of Member States successfully agreed upon a framework to ensure that in a pandemic, influenza virus samples will be shared with partners who need the info...
E-cigarette use is rising, particularly among young adults and teens. Recent illnesses and deaths attributed to vaping have caused intense scrutiny of the chemicals in e-liquids and vapor, but little is known about the size of vaping particles and their deposition patterns in ...
