World Health Organization

Jan 25, 09 NEW STORY 13:06 ET Giving Cigarettes is Giving Harm, WHO says      Jan 25, 07 20:36 ET WHO Revives Efforts to Eliminate Forgotten Disease   Jan 22, 07 20:51 ET WHO Executive Board to Tackle Key Global Health Issues   Jan 18, 07 21:10 ET Global Goal to Reduce Measles Deaths in Children Surpassed      Jan 09, 07 21:41 ET WHO Plans to Increase Treatment Access for Victims of Rabies and Snake Bites      Jan 04, 07 06:44 ET Dr Margaret Chan Takes Office as Director-General Of the World Health Organization   Dec 04, 06 22:02 ET Global Strategy Aims For Effective Malaria Vaccine By 2025      Dec 01, 06 03:34 ET WORLD AIDS DAY MESSAGE      Nov 21, 06 20:35 ET Global AIDS Epidemic Continues To Grow      Nov 16, 06 00:27 ET WHO and Partners Accelerate Fight Against Counterfeit Medicines      Nov 09, 06 22:26 ET Dr Margaret Chan to be WHO's Next Director-General      Nov 08, 06 21:13 ET Dr Margaret Chan Nominated to be WHO Director-General      Nov 07, 06 22:10 ET Election of WHO Director-General Guidelines and Information for Media      Nov 06, 06 05:31 ET Asia Pacific Region Initiates Action to Integrate HIV Prevention Into Maternal and Child Health Care Services      Nov 05, 06 20:32 ET WHO Named as One of Five Partners to Implement Michael Bloomberg's US$125 Million Initiative to Promote Freedom From Smoking      Nov 02, 06 20:57 ET WHO To Unveil Global Anti-Counterfeiting Plan      Nov 01, 06 19:56 ET Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health at Tipping Point According to Global Study      Oct 26, 06 23:58 ET World Health Organization and Partners Unveil New Coordinated Approach to Treat Millions Suffering from Neglected Tropical Diseases      Oct 24, 06 07:13 ET WHO Assistant Director General: Visit to Beijing      04:32 ET Mayors Pledge Action on Social Determinants of Health      Oct 17, 06 23:43 ET WHO Global Task Force Outlines Measures to Combat XDR-TB Worldwide      Oct 16, 06 23:29 ET World Health Organization Says Violence Against Children Can And Must Be Prevented      Oct 13, 06 00:12 ET Global Polio Eradication Now Hinges on Four Countries      Oct 12, 06 09:30 ET UN Secretary-General's Study Reveals Full Range And Scale of Violence Against Children      00:02 ET Sight Test and Glasses Could Dramatically Improve the Lives of 150 Million People With Poor Vision      Oct 10, 06 00:02 ET World Mental Health Day 2006: 'Building Awareness -- Reducing Risks: Suicide And Mental Illness'      Sep 21, 06 06:37 ET Chemical Dump in Cote d'Ivoire -- WHO Providing Public Health Support      03:43 ET WHO Backs Health Sector Response to HIV Pandemic      00:55 ET Rising Health Workforce Exodus Will Have Disturbing Effects, Says WHO      Sep 19, 06 02:55 ET WHO Urges Member States to be Prepared for a Pandemic      Sep 11, 06 03:06 ET WHO Publishes Third Edition of its Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta And Greywater      Jul 26, 06 00:15 ET Health Consequences of Excessive Solar UV Radiation      Jul 25, 06 04:00 ET China Immunises Millions of Children Against Hepatitis B in Historic Collaboration Between Government and GAVI Alliance   Jun 16, 06 05:23 ET Almost a Quarter of All Disease Caused by Environmental Exposure      02:41 ET WHO China Launches its New Website      Jun 13, 06 05:22 ET World Blood Donor Day 2006      Jun 12, 06 03:15 ET China and WHO Collaborate to Fight Emerging Infectious Diseases      May 30, 06 07:13 ET Tobacco Is Deadly In Any Form Or Disguise - Who World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2006      May 23, 06 21:55 ET Funeral Arrangements for Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director General of the World Health Organization      May 22, 06 22:34 ET World Health Assembly Opens, Mourns Death of WHO Director-General   May 18, 06 04:34 ET WHO Official Tells World to Prepare For New Diseases      May 09, 06 06:19 ET Global Report on Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases and WHO Collaborating Centre For Community-based Interventions Launch in China   May 08, 06 04:07 ET Investment in Cleaner Household Energy Yields Major Health And Economic Benefits      Apr 28, 06 06:42 ET World Health Organization Releases New Child Growth Standards      00:02 ET Avian Influenza - Situation In China - Update 11      Apr 27, 06 07:00 ET World Health Organization Releases New Child Growth Standards      Apr 20, 06 00:02 ET China Announces 17th Case of Human Infection With Avian Influenza      Apr 10, 06 06:12 ET Blinding Trachoma: Progress Towards Global Elimination by 2020      Apr 06, 06 02:16 ET Health-care Workers Must be Given a Fairer Deal - WHO      Apr 03, 06 06:02 ET Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: High-Level Commission Calls For Action to Ensure Developing Country Access to Existing and New Medicines and Vaccines      Mar 29, 06 03:41 ET China to be Officially Designated Free of Lymphatic Filariasis      Mar 28, 06 10:01 ET Launch of Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD)      Mar 24, 06 00:02 ET WHO Tuberculosis Plan on Track and Producing Results in the Western Pacific      Mar 17, 06 00:05 ET WHO Launches New Stop TB Strategy to Fight the Global Tuberculosis Epidemic      Mar 08, 06 06:19 ET Avian Influenza - Situation in China - Update 7      Mar 06, 06 21:35 ET Avian Influenza - Situation in China - Update 6      Feb 27, 06 21:35 ET Avian Influenza and Food Safety: Statement by Dr LEE Jong-Wook, WHO Director-General      Feb 22, 06 00:02 ET China Partners with International Expertise to Improve Road Safety 'China Seatbelt Intervention Project'   Feb 21, 06 00:02 ET Avian Influenza: Significance of Mutations in the H5N1 Virus      Jan 25, 06 00:02 ET New HIV Data Show Growing AIDS Epidemic in China      Dec 23, 05 03:30 ET China is Committed to the Fight Against H5N1 Avian Influenza, But Challenges Remain      Dec 19, 05 00:47 ET WHO s Regional Director for the Western Pacific Visits China to Show Support for the Country s Fight Against Avian Influenza      Dec 07, 05 06:20 ET End Human Rights Violations Against People With Mental Health Disorders      02:34 ET No Bird Flu Risk For Consumers From Properly Cooked Poultry and Eggs      Nov 29, 05 07:20 ET Halting HIV/AIDS Needs Bold Responses - World AIDS Day, 1 December      Nov 23, 05 05:25 ET International Workshop on Drowning Prevention in China   Nov 22, 05 04:54 ET HIV Infection Rates Decreasing in Several Countries But Global Number of People Living with HIV Continues to Rise   Nov 07, 05 00:34 ET China Invites WHO Assistance in the Hunan Province Avian Influenza Investigation      Oct 25, 05 07:10 ET Avian Influenza - Situation in Thailand, Indonesia - Update 36      Oct 19, 05 06:24 ET Global Efforts to Prevent Violence: World Health Organization Reports Significant Progress      Oct 14, 05 05:56 ET WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Deadline Approaches      02:39 ET World Could Avoid Influenza Pandemic, Says WHO Regional Director      00:36 ET WHO: Avian Influenza -- New Areas With Infection in Birds      Oct 13, 05 07:20 ET WHO Launches Global Patient Safety Challenge; Issues Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care      Oct 11, 05 00:01 ET WHO Avian Influenza Update on Situation in Indonesia      Oct 10, 05 00:01 ET World Health Organization Sends Aid to Help Victims of South Asia Earthquake      Oct 08, 05 03:24 ET World Health Organization: 'Stop the Global Epidemic of Chronic Disease'      Sep 30, 05 04:49 ET Fourth Laboratory-Confirmed Human Case of Avian Influenza in Indonesia      01:37 ET WHO Expert To Work With The UN System On Avian And Human Influenza Position Critical as World Speeds Up Preparation For An Influenza Pandemic      Sep 28, 05 04:02 ET Six Babies at Six Months - WHO Launches Next Chapter of 'Great Expectations'      Sep 23, 05 00:03 ET Avian Influenza-Situation in Indonesia - WHO Update 31      Sep 22, 05 07:57 ET The World Health Organization Warns of the Rising Threat of Heart Disease and Stroke as Overweight and Obesity Rapidly Increase      07:51 ET WHO Regional EPI Targets: Eliminate Measles and Control Hepatitis B by 2012      03:22 ET One Million People Die Yearly From Environmental Risks in the Western Pacific      01:55 ET WHO Calls for Intensified Actions to Reduce High Infant and Under-Five Mortality   Sep 21, 05 05:52 ET WHO Takes Key Steps to Combat Emerging Diseases      Sep 20, 05 07:02 ET World Health Organization Takes Emergency Measures Against Malaria in Niger      05:57 ET Act Now to Address Threat From Noncommunicable Diseases, WHO Urges      Sep 19, 05 04:45 ET WHO Regional Director Highlights the Rise in New Emerging Diseases      04:11 ET Dr Shigeru Omi, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific, Talks at the Fifty-sixth Session of the Regional Committee      Sep 13, 05 05:56 ET New Emergency Immunization Plan Launched to Protect Horn of Africa, As Polio is Confirmed in Somalia      Sep 12, 05 06:56 ET New Global Partnership Will Take Immediate Action to Help Women and Children Survive      Sep 07, 05 00:15 ET World Health Organization Urges Responsible Use of Antimalarial Medicines      Sep 06, 05 00:15 ET CHERNOBYL: The True Scale of the Accident      Sep 05, 05 01:47 ET Face to Face With Chronic Disease -- The Personal Impact of the Growing Epidemics of Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer and Diabetes      Aug 30, 05 05:14 ET China Joins the Global War on Smoking      Aug 29, 05 05:12 ET Indonesia Launches Country's Largest-Ever Immunization Campaign to Tackle Expanding Polio Epidemic      Aug 23, 05 02:10 ET Building Stronger Health Systems Key to Reaching the Health Millennium Development Goals      Aug 16, 05 03:53 ET Outbreak Associated With Streptococcus Suis in Pigs in China: Update      Jul 06, 05 06:40 ET International Conference Draws Up Strategy to Fight Avian Influenza      Jun 30, 05 08:36 ET WHO Stresses the Threat from Avian Influenza Has Not Receded      Jun 24, 05 03:49 ET International Team of Avian Influenza Experts Visits Viet Nam      Jun 20, 05 09:06 ET Weak Health Services Block Progress in Asia And the Pacific      Jun 16, 05 04:43 ET Sixth Global Vaccine Research Forum      Jun 14, 05 00:28 ET 14 June: World Blood Donor Day - Anyone Can Save A Life      Jun 10, 05 07:16 ET WHO's Western Pacific Region Sets Target Date of 2012 for Measles Elimination and Hepatitis B Control      Jun 06, 05 03:20 ET Measles Elimination in the Western Pacific Region      Apr 06, 05 02:14 ET Avian Influenza -- Situation in Viet Nam and Cambodia      Apr 05, 05 00:41 ET WHO: Only Rapid and Concerted Action Will Bring Down Mother and Infant Deaths      Feb 24, 05 02:27 ET World's First Anti-Smoking Treaty Becomes Law      Jan 19, 05 20:17 ET WHO Warns of Widespread Psychological Trauma Among Tsunami Victims      Jan 04, 05 00:05 ET WHO Director-General Travels To Indonesia and Sri Lanka      Dec 06, 04 21:16 ET China Can Avert Major AIDS Crisis and Beat TB Epidemic      Dec 02, 04 00:02 ET WHO Tobacco Treaty Set to Become Law, Making Global Public Health History      Nov 02, 04 03:44 ET Australia Ratifies Tobacco Control Treaty      Oct 29, 04 05:12 ET 'Make Every Mother and Child Count'      Oct 19, 04 00:08 ET Epilepsy in the Western Pacific Region: A Call to Action      Oct 15, 04 00:05 ET Indoor Air Pollution -- The Killer in the Kitchen      Oct 12, 04 04:25 ET Food Safety Regulators From More Than 100 Countries Meet in Global Effort to Reduce the More Than 2 Billion Cases of Food-Borne Illness      Oct 08, 04 04:46 ET WHO Challenges Cities to Work as 'Engines of Change'      03:37 ET In China, Road Accidents Claim More Than 600 Lives Every Day      Sep 29, 04 00:46 ET Stopping the Invisible Epidemic of Maternal Deaths      Sep 24, 04 06:40 ET WHO Publishes Definitive Atlas on Global Heart Disease and Stroke Epidemic      06:31 ET In Natural Disasters, Cadavers Pose No Threat of Disease      Sep 17, 04 04:30 ET More People in the Prime of Life Will Die of Liver-Related Diseases      04:15 ET WHO: Urgent Action is Required to Meet 2005 Case Detection Target      04:00 ET WHO Secures Accord on Better Access to Essential Medicines for the Poor      00:45 ET WHO: Protect the Public From Contaminated Blood      00:30 ET WHO Urges Member States to Act Now to Avoid a Major HIV/AIDS Epidemic      00:02 ET WHO: Improve Capacity to Respond Quickly to Food Contamination      Sep 13, 04 00:02 ET WHO Official Warns of a Growing Global Threat From Avian Influenza      Aug 25, 04 22:29 ET Avian Influenza Update: Implications of H5N1 Infections in Pigs in China      Aug 20, 04 05:32 ET WHO Expresses Concern at Spread of H5N1 to Malaysia      Aug 13, 04 03:00 ET Three Fatal Human Cases of Avian Influenza Confirmed in Viet Nam      Aug 02, 04 00:01 ET From Bangkok to Toronto: The Tough Road Ahead in The Campaign to Combat HIV/AIDS   Jul 30, 04 04:27 ET Tuberculosis Prevalence Rates in China Fall 30% After Introduction of the 'Dots' Strategy      Jul 27, 04 02:26 ET WHO to Recognize Outstanding Healthy Cities      Jul 14, 04 00:08 ET New Edition of WHO Prequalification List to Include Four New Anti-Aids Medicines      Jul 09, 04 07:21 ET WHO Urges Prompt Action on Avian Influenza Outbreaks      Jul 06, 04 00:02 ET WHO and Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative Come Together To Support China's Efforts to Fight its Epidemic      Jul 02, 04 04:15 ET The Swedish Government Provides Substantial Funding for a WHO Project On Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in China      Jul 01, 04 23:08 ET Investigation into China's Recent SARS Outbreak Yields Important Lessons for Global Public Health      00:01 ET Kano, Nigeria, Informs WHO of the Intention to Resume Polio Immunization Campaigns   Jun 23, 04 00:15 ET New WHO Guidelines to Promote Proper Use of Alternative Medicines   Jun 18, 04 00:01 ET WHO Statement on Removal of Two Aids Medicines From List of Prequalified Products   Jun 10, 04 00:01 ET 14 June: World Blood Donor Day to Honour Voluntary, Unpaid Blood Donors All Over the Globe      Jun 04, 04 05:25 ET Injury Prevention Experts Meet to Analyse Current Knowledge And Chart Future Directions   Jun 03, 04 04:26 ET WHO World Mental Health Surveys Find Mental Disorders Are Widespread, Disabling and Often Go Untreated   00:05 ET Top Scientists to Present Progress on Vaccines for SARS, Pandemic Influenza And Other Lethal Infectious Diseases   May 31, 04 01:22 ET WHO Encourages China to Boost Its Tobacco Control Campaign As the Country Marks World No Tobacco Day   May 27, 04 00:08 ET FAO/WHO Conference Calls for Massive Efforts to Improve Food Safety in Asia-Pacific   May 24, 04 22:20 ET Food Safety at Risk in Asia and the Pacific   May 18, 04 06:35 ET China's Latest SARS Outbreak Has Been Contained, But Biosafety Concerns Remain   05:40 ET Statement of the World Health Organization on United States Proposal for Rapid Review of Fixed Dose Combinations   May 11, 04 07:31 ET Unprecedented Opportunity to Fight HIV/AIDS and Change the Course of History   01:50 ET Pacific Islands Countries Urged to Sign and Ratify WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco-Control Treaty   Apr 19, 04 03:45 ET WHO Director-General Dr. J. W. Lee to Meet With Senior Chinese Government Officials   Apr 07, 04 23:02 ET Stop Paid Blood Donation, Global Conference Appeals   22:45 ET WORLD HEALTH DAY: ROAD SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT! WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CALLS FOR ACTION TO LOWER THE DEATH TOLL ON THE WORLD'S ROADS   Mar 05, 04 01:42 ET China and WHO Work Together on The Effort to Develop Crucial Vaccines   Feb 09, 04 20:16 ET WHO, FAO and China Work Together to Combat H5N1 Avian Influenza   Jan 30, 04 00:00 ET Avian Influenza Outbreak in Poultry Spreads in China   Jan 27, 04 00:00 ET China Confirms Cases of H5N1 Avian Influenza in Poultry   Jan 17, 04 00:00 ET WHO Clarification on Issues Related to SARS in China   00:00 ET WHO update on the Two Suspect SARS Cases in Guangdong Province   Jan 02, 04 00:00 ET Update on Suspected SARS Case in Southern China   Dec 31, 03 00:00 ET Update on the Suspected SARS Case in Southern China   Dec 30, 03 00:00 ET The Suspected SARS Case in Southern China Remains Just That at This Hour - A Suspected Case   Dec 29, 03 00:00 ET Update on Suspected SARS Case in Southern China