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This year has seen a decline in cases but health officials say they have only half the funding they need to wipe out the disease in its last three remaining havens — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Sona Bari, spokeswoman for the polio eradication ...
May 20, 2012 at 22:15 | Source: Daily Telegraph
Halton was speaking at an event on the sidelines of the World Health Organisation's annual ministerial assembly in Geneva, where WHO director-general Margaret Chan called for stepping up the "tooth-and-nail fight against one of public health's ...
May 22, 2012 at 22:55 | Source: Reuters
the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. Heart disease, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory illnesses are the biggest killer globally, according to the United Nations agency. They account for 36 million deaths a year, or 63 percent of all ...
May 25, 2012 at 18:12 | Source: YAHOO!
New Delhi, May 23 : The World Health Organisation (WHO) has acknowledged India's leadership role in promoting global debate on the need of urgent national action for the promotion of mental health at the ongoing 65th World Health Assembly at Geneva.
May 24, 2012 at 07:22 | Source: New Kerala
In its annual report on global health, the Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO) also said one in 10 adults worldwide has diabetes, an illness that costs billions of dollars to treat and puts sufferers at risk of heart disease ...
May 15, 2012 at 23:54 | Source: FOX News
Dhaka, May 21 (bdnews24.com) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday launched a new approach to mainstreaming gender, equity and human rights at its all levels on the opening day of the 65th session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva on Monday.
May 21, 2012 at 19:00 | Source: Bangladesh News 24 hours
The World Health Organisation has singled out tobacco industry interference as one of the greatest threats to ending the global tobacco epidemic. So on May 31, World No Tobacco Day, Quit Victoria is calling on governments across the world to remain ...
May 27, 2012 at 11:36 | Source: heraldsun.com.au
Certain business operators are denying the widely known fact that all forms of asbestos are dangerous, claiming chrysotile, or white asbestos, is safe, the World Health Organisation said. WHO representative to Thailand Dr Maureen E Birmingham said she has ...
May 27, 2012 at 19:36 | Source: Bangkok Post
The World Health Organisation is expected to declare polio as a global health emergency in the wake of rising number of infections. The WHO says that a drastic rise in infections in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, poses a threat to the rest ...
May 25, 2012 at 08:40 | Source: Aljazeera.com
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that while less than 1 percent of medicines available in developed countries are likely to be counterfeit, globally, the figure is around 10 percent. The United Nations agency estimates that as much ...
May 22, 2012 at 19:06 | Source: msnbc.com