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Highlights
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General Assembly proclaims the Decade of Action on Nutrition
April 2016 -- The United Nations General Assembly today agreed a resolution proclaiming the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition from 2016 to 2025. The resolution aims to trigger intensified action to end hunger and eradicate malnutrition worldwide, and ensure universal access to healthier and more sustainable diets.
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New positive case of Ebola virus disease confirmed in Liberia
April 2016 -- Liberian health authorities convened an emergency meeting today with key partners to coordinate and plan a rapid response to the new positive case of Ebola virus disease.
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The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) celebrates 90 years
April 2016 -- On 1 April 1926, epidemiologists in the Health Office of the League of Nations, Geneva created the first WER. The publication's mission was to provide the world with information about disease hazards that, at that time, mostly travelled by sea: plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus and smallpox.
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A global course for healthy ageing
April 2016 -- A new supplemental issue of The Gerontologist contains 12 articles that expand upon the major themes of the landmark WHO World report on ageing and health released in late 2015.
Disease outbreak news
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Microcephaly – France - Martinique
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Yellow Fever – China
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Zika virus infection – Dominica and Cuba
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Microcephaly – Panama
29 March 2016
Emergency reform
WHO is reforming its work in outbreaks and emergencies with health and humanitarian consequences to ensure the Organization can respond rapidly to future crises.
Zika virus and complications
After a spike in cases of microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome, strongly suspected to be associated with Zika virus, WHO declared a public health emergency.
Commentary
Stories from countries
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E.S. Grant Mental Health Hospital in Liberia: striving to help people with mental illness get well
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World Immunization Week in Nepal: An anniversary of remembrance
1 April 2016 -
WHO coordinating vaccination of contacts to contain Ebola flare-up in Guinea
31 March 2016 -
Mental health services in Liberia: building back better
29 March 2016 -
Yellow fever in Angola
24 March 2016
Events
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World Health Day 2016: Beat diabetes
7 April 2016
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UNGASS 2016: Special Session on the World Drug Problem
19-21 April 2016
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World Immunization Week 2016: Close the immunization gap
24-30 April 2016
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World Humanitarian Summit
23-24 May 2016
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