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As the nations of the world attend the World Health Assembly in Geneva this week, the World Health Organization is in a budget crisis and continuing to struggle for relevancy among better-funded, more agile philanthropic foundations and disease-specific ...
May 22, 2012 at 23:52 | Source: Council on Foreign Relations
The World Health Organization (WHO) has set a number of targets for reducing so-called non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by 25 percent by 2025. NCDs are chronic illnesses largely caused by dietary and lifestyle factors. They include obesity, heart disease ...
May 26, 2012 at 23:40 | Source: Examiner
Today the 1 Mission 1 Million – Getting to the Heart of Stroke initiative is launching a petition to call upon the World Health Organization, its member states and health authorities worldwide to recognise atrial fibrillation as a risk factor ...
May 22, 2012 at 13:22 | Source: Financial Post
The Pan American Health Organization came out strongly against "ex-gay" programs that attempt to turn gay people straight. The PAHO is the oldest public health organization in the world, and the group serves as the World Health Organization's ...
May 18, 2012 at 22:24 | Source: Advocate
Today, the Pan American Health Organization, the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, condemned ex-gay therapy in a new position statement, calling it a “serious threat to the health and well-being — even the ...
May 17, 2012 at 20:38 | Source: Think Progress
As the World Health Assembly draws to a close in Geneva this week, and Margaret Chan accepts her appointment to a second five-year term as director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), an editorial and an opinion piece examine the ...
May 25, 2012 at 16:11 | Source: News-Medical.Net
Women's and Children's Health of the World Health Organization. "The plan promotes greater coordination and synergies between immunization and other child, adolescent and reproductive health interventions leading to healthier communities everywhere."
May 25, 2012 at 14:45 | Source: EurekAlert
Ahead of the 65th World Health Assembly (WHA), taking place in Geneva next week, International agency Oxfam has warned that the fundamental role of the World Health Organization (WHO) as the leading agency for global health is at risk because it ...
May 18, 2012 at 11:47 | Source: Oxfam International
GENEVA - Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general. The World Health Assembly, which oversees the U.N. health agency ...
May 22, 2012 at 23:52 | Source: YAHOO!
the assembly appointed Margaret Chan for a second five-year term as Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). A number of resolutions, including noncommunicable diseases, WHO reforms, mental health, and intensification of the global polio ...
May 27, 2012 at 17:27 | Source: Balita News