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Additional, Earlier Measles Vaccine Recommended In Low-income Countries

The World Health Organization recommends routine vaccinations for measles at 9 months, but a new study published on bmj.com finds that an additional vaccination given at 4.5 months may also reduce measles outbreaks in developing countries.

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Billie Gates & Bloomberg Make An Effort To Stop Smoking

Well not them personally, but the two billionaires are using some of their funds to stop people around the world from smoking. The World Health Organization estimated that tobacco could kill as mach as one billion people in the 21st century, most of them living in the poor and middle-income countries. In an effort to cut back that number, Bloomberg's foundation plans to donate $250 million over four...

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Inside Views: Patent Insurance Scheme: Financial Resource For WHO Global IP Strategy?

By Itaru Nitta, Green Intellectual Property Project, Geneva, Switzerland In its Assembly 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property to squarely steer the global R&D [research and development] and IP policy toward maladies afflicting impoverished nations. Subsequent ...

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Billionaires Back Antismoking Effort

Donald G. McNeil, Jr in the New York Times: Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that they would spend $500 million to stop people around the world from smoking. The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco...

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Giving an additional early vaccination may reduce measles outbreaks

Outbreaks of measles in developing countries may be reduced by vaccinating infants at 4.5 months of age as well as at the World Health Organization's recommended routine vaccination at 9 months, according to a study published on BMJ.com today.

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Food recommended by WHO to pregnant

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), dependent on the United Nations, have established a global minimum nutritional recommendations for pregnant women. In fact, pregnancy is a state of health for which women have been endowed by nature, especially diet should not be changed, provided that it is appropriate for the age, height, frame size and type of physical...

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A Billion Thanks

Billionaires Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that they would pool their resources and dedicate $500 million to stop people around the world from smoking. That's the way to do it! Put your money where your mouth is! The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco will kill up to a [...]

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WHO welcomes new resources to fight tobacco use

23 July 2008 -- WHO welcomes the announcement from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Bloomberg Philanthropies to inject significant new resources into the global fight against tobacco use.

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Billionaires Back Antismoking Effort

By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR NYT Bill Gates and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that they will spend $500 million to stop people around the world from smoking. The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco will kill up to a billion people in the 21st century, most of them in poor and middle-income countries. In an effort to cut that number, Mr. Bloomberg’s foundation plans to commit...

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IRAQ: WHO returns after five-year absence

Source: IRIN Doctors in Iraq have welcomed the return of World Health Organization (WHO) international staff to the country in June, after an absence of five years. Foreign WHO staff were withdrawn after the August 2003 attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad which killed 22 people, including UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. Over 100 others were injured.

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WHO to Rebuild Health Facilities in Burma

The World Health Organization says it will help the government of Burma rebuild and re-equip health facilities, which had been destroyed and damaged by Cyclone Nargis, the worst storm to hit the cou...

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Is the U.N. Deadline on Curing Malaria Wishful Thinking? [Scientific American Magazine]

In a dramatic call to action in April, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon--backed by the African Union, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, ExxonMobil, the World Bank, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, among other key international organizations and businesses--set a timetable for comprehensive malaria control in Africa by the end of 2010....

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The Disease Burden Associated with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Last month the World Health Organization (WHO) released, without much fanfare, Safer Water, Better Health, its estimate of how many deaths or how much "disease burden" can be attributed to deficiencies in water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH). Access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation is key to improving health conditions in developing countries. Water-related diseases [...]

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15% of Population Suffers From Diabetes

According to Al-Qabas newspaper (July 20, 2008), a recently released survey by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health, in association with the World Health Organization, shows that 15% of the Kuwaitis are suffering from diabetes. This rate was estimated at 16.3% among men and 14.5% among women.

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WHO: Asia Should Act Against TB

The World Health Organization urged Asian countries on Monday to take action against the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis