Notes for the media 2006

• 2006: A year of challenges and achievements
  22 December 2006
• Countries initiate discussions on public health, innovation and intellectual property
  8 December 2006
• Flooding emergency in the Horn of Africa: major health risks
  8 December 2006
• Global strategy aims for effective malaria vaccine by 2025
  4 December 2006
• WHO remembers road crash victims and their families
  17 November 2006
• Election of WHO Director-General
  3 November 2006
• WHO to unveil global anti-counterfeiting plan
  2 November 2006
• WHO sets up network to combat corruption in medicines procurement
  30 October 2006
• WHO to hold public hearings on public health, innovation and intellectual property
  27 October 2006
• WHO Global Task Force outlines measures to combat XDR-TB worldwide
  17 October 2006
• WHO Influenza Pandemic Task Force holds first meeting
  26 September 2006
• WHO establishes secretariat on public health, innovation, essential health research and intellectual property
  22 September 2006
• Chemical dump in Côte d'Ivoire
  20 September 2006
• Chemical dump in Côte d'Ivoire
  15 September 2006
• The Republic of Montenegro joins WHO
  14 September 2006
• Pesticides are a leading suicide method
  9 September 2006
• WHO Director-General: proposals
  6 September 2006
• Emergence of XDR-TB
  5 September 2006
• WHO and partners assess health facilities across Lebanon
  18 August 2006
• Male circumcision update: Ongoing clinical trials are key to validating the link between male circumcision and protection against HIV infection
  17 August 2006
• Jackie Chan in bird flu public service announcement
  16 August 2006
• Lebanon update from the World Health Organization
  10 August 2006
• WHO advises on the right drug donations for Lebanon
  3 August 2006
• Health consequences of excessive solar UV radiation
  25 July 2006
• Urgent funds needed for health for the Lebanese people
  24 July 2006
• WHO launches first-ever international guidelines on creating safe places to swim and bathe
  27 June 2006
• Indonesia holds avian influenza expert consultation
  20 June 2006
• Media opportunities World Health Assembly
  25 May 2006
• Memorial for "a man of action"
  24 May 2006
• WHO honours polio eradication visionary
  23 May 2006
• Funeral arrangements for Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of the World Health Organization
  23 May 2006
• Great expectations: six mothers, six babies, six countries
  20 April 2006
• Blinding trachoma: progress towards global elimination by 2020
  10 April 2006
• Horn of Africa food crisis and health risks
  7 April 2006
• Director-General to attend G8 Summit
  31 March 2006
• WHO widens work on avian and pandemic influenza preparedness to reach displaced populations and local communities
  17 March 2006
• WHO includes new AIDS and malaria medicines on prequalification list
  9 March 2006
• WHO human influenza pandemic meeting makes progress on containment plan
  8 March 2006
• WHO convenes international meeting to discuss influenza pandemic containment strategy
  3 March 2006
• Highlights of the first Tobacco Treaty Conference of the Parties
  17 February 2006
• Speed, transparency key in responding to avian influenza outbreak in Turkey says WHO Director-General
  2 February 2006
• Improve home ventilation to reduce radon levels, WHO warns
  30 January 2006
• Additional two million treatment courses of oseltamivir donated to WHO to help countries which cannot afford the treatment
  17 January 2006