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Highlights
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WHO scales up response to plague in Madagascar
October 2017 - WHO is rapidly scaling up its response to an outbreak of plague that has spread to the capital and port towns, infecting more than 100 people in just a few weeks.
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Antimalarial drug resistance in the Greater Mekong Subregion: How concerned should we be?
September 2017 – A recent letter published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reported on the presence of a drug-resistant lineage (strain) of malaria parasites in south Viet Nam that is responsible for “alarming rates of failure” of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, a first-line antimalarial medicine.
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900 000 vaccines “en route” to Cox’s Bazar to prevent cholera
September 2017 – The International Coordinating Group ICG on Vaccine Provision will release 900 000 doses of the Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) from the global stockpile to prevent the spread of cholera among recently arrived vulnerable populations and host communities in areas around Cox’s Bazar.
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Measles no longer endemic in 79% of the WHO European Region
September 2017 – In the Region, 42 of 53 countries have interrupted endemic transmission of measles, and 37 countries have interrupted endemic transmission of rubella as of the end of 2016. Despite progress towards elimination in many countries and a record low in measles cases for the Region in 2016 (5200), over 11 000 measles cases have been reported so far this year.
What we do
Health emergencies programme
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Infographics
Fact sheets
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Preventing unsafe abortion
Updated September 2017 -
Soil-transmitted helminth infections
Updated September 2017 -
Onchocerciasis
Updated September 2017 -
Rabies
Updated September 2017 -
E. coli
Reviewed September 2017
Events
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Launch of the renewed strategy for cholera control
4 October 2017 -
High level meeting for the Evaluation of the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision (ICG)
17 October 2017 -
WHO Global Conference on Noncommunicable diseases
18–20 October 2017 -
The 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
12 September - 11 December 2017
Sustainable Development Goals
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NCDs & Universal health coverage
"Changing the NCD paradigm is essential. No longer can NCDs—and health in general—be seen as a matter of only stocking hospitals with medicines and training health-care workers."
Disease outbreak news
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Plague – Madagascar
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Chikungunya – Italy
29 September 2017 -
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – United Arab Emirates
21 September 2017 -
Chikungunya – Italy
15 September 2017