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• WHO warns up to five million people without access to basic services in Southeast Asia
  30 December 2004
• Eliminating iodine deficiency worldwide is within reach
  21 December 2004
• 3.6 million Philippine flood victims threatened by outbreaks of communicable diseases: rapid response to UN flash appeal is essential
  15 December 2004
• A new model for child survival in Africa
  13 December 2004
• FIFA and WHO to join forces to promote a human rights approach to HIV/AIDS
  10 December 2004
• Many countries challenged to attain the health-related Millennium Development Goals
  2 December 2004
• WHO tobacco Treaty set to become law, making global public health history
  1 December 2004
• Two Cipla AIDS medicines back on WHO prequalification list
  30 November 2004
• Women and girls need access to AIDS treatment and protection from violence
  30 November 2004
• Number of women living with HIV increases in each region of the world
  23 November 2004
• WHO awards million dollar contract for global treatment preparedness activities
  18 November 2004
• Landmark report could influence the future of medicines in Europe and the world
  18 November 2004
• First international standard for common genetic test approved by WHO
  17 November 2004
• New tools and increased funds will beat malaria, say global leaders
  17 November 2004
• New online tool kit on HIV/AIDS prevention for sex workers
  11 November 2004
• Fight childhood obesity to help prevent diabetes, say WHO & IDF
  11 November 2004
• New WHO report calls for a new and innovative approach to health systems research
  10 November 2004
• Ranbaxy withdraws all its antiretroviral medicines from WHO prequalification
  9 November 2004
• Surge in demand leads to shortage of artemisinin-based combination therapy for malaria
  8 November 2004
• Preventing and treating HIV/AIDS in poor countries will help deliver better health services through 2005 and beyond
  4 November 2004
• WHO Global Forum on chronic diseases focuses attention on worldwide prevention efforts
  3 November 2004
• Global health leaders join the World Health Organization to announce accelerated efforts to improve patient safety
  27 October 2004
• Commissioner David Byrne to be special envoy for World Health Organization
  22 October 2004
• Epilepsy in the Western Pacific Region: a call to action
  19 October 2004
• Five simple measures could significantly reduce the global incidence of foodborne disease
  13 October 2004
• Food safety regulators from more than 100 countries meet in global effort to reduce the more than 2 billion cases of foodborne illness
  11 October 2004
• World Health Organization supports global effort to relieve chronic pain
  11 October 2004
• One million polio vaccinators, 80 million children, 23 countries: Africa launches largest ever immunization campaign
  8 October 2004
• Stopping the invisible epidemic of maternal deaths
  29 September 2004
• WHO publishes definitive atlas on global heart disease and stroke epidemic
  23 September 2004
• WHO issues revised drinking water guidelines to help prevent water-related outbreaks and disease
  21 September 2004
• Combining TB treatment with HIV testing and treatment could save lives of up to 500 000 HIV-positive Africans every year
  21 September 2004
• AIDS epidemic poses serious threat to Europe
  16 September 2004
• Survey concludes deaths in Darfur exceed the emergency threshold
  13 September 2004
• Thousands of Darfur’s children in remote, conflict-affected areas to get measles vaccine
  8 September 2004
• Marc Danzon nominated to second term as WHO Regional Director for Europe
  8 September 2004
• Suicide huge but preventable public health problem, says WHO
  8 September 2004
• World Health Organization launches new initiative to address the health needs of a rapidly ageing population
  6 September 2004
• Dr Luis Sambo nominated as WHO Regional Director for Africa
  2 September 2004
• A globally effective HIV vaccine requires greater participation of women and adolescents in clinical trials
  31 August 2004
• World facing "silent emergency" as billions struggle without clean water or basic sanitation, say WHO and UNICEF
  26 August 2004
• New polio cases confirmed in Guinea, Mali and the Sudan
  24 August 2004
• New World Health Organization health leaders training programme gets under way with major grant
  24 August 2004
• World Health Organization action in Afghanistan aims to control debilitating leishmaniasis
  10 August 2004
• WHO announces end of Ebola outbreak in southern Sudan
  7 August 2004
• Three AIDS medicines will be removed from prequalification list this week
  4 August 2004
• WHO receives US$ 6.5 million Gates Foundation grant to develop new growth standards for children in partnership with UN University
  4 August 2004
• People of Darfur face high levels of disease and death: prevention is possible if efforts are intensified, coordinated and adequately funded, says head of the World Health Organization
  15 July 2004
• WHO publishes new guidelines on preventing mother to child transmission of HIV
  14 July 2004
• New edition of WHO prequalification list to include four new anti-AIDS medicines
  13 July 2004
• Strong foundations built to increase access to AIDS treatment
  10 July 2004
• Cambodia protects 75% of children against parasites, becoming first country to reach key target
  2 July 2004
• The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on track to become law by the end of the year
  2 July 2004
• The environment: where's the risk, and where are children safe?
  22 June 2004
• New WHO guidelines to promote proper use of alternative medicines
  22 June 2004
• Polio experts warn of largest epidemic in recent years, as polio hits Darfur
  22 June 2004
• Polio partners commend G8 for continued support to polio eradication
  11 June 2004
• WHO/UNAIDS welcomes G8 endorsement of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise
  11 June 2004
• 14 June: World Blood Donor Day to honour voluntary, unpaid blood donors all over the globe
  10 June 2004
• WHO report reveals economic costs of interpersonal violence
  9 June 2004
• Immunization begins for millions of children in Darfur
  7 June 2004
• World Health Organization warns of dire health consequences for millions of people in Darfur, Sudan, and calls for intensified health response
  2 June 2004
• The World Health Organization says that tobacco is bad economics all around
  28 May 2004
• More WHO Member States unite in fight against skin cancer caused by excessive exposure to UV radiation
  27 May 2004
• Food safety at risk in Asia and the Pacific
  24 May 2004
• World Health Assembly raises global public health to new level
  22 May 2004
• WHO World Health Assembly adopts global strategy on diet, physical activity and health
  22 May 2004
• World Health Assembly adopts first global strategy on reproductive health and resolution on the family and health
  22 May 2004
• Asian and North African countries close to ending polio, announce accelerated plans to "mop-up" new cases
  17 May 2004
• Unprecedented opportunity to fight HIV/AIDS and change the course of history
  11 May 2004
• Botswana launches emergency polio campaign
  10 May 2004
• Launch of "Diabetes Action Now"
  5 May 2004
• Investment in water and sanitation yields health and economic benefits
  27 April 2004
• Measles deaths drop dramatically as vaccine reaches world's poorest children
  27 April 2004
• More than 600 million people urgently need effective malaria treatment to prevent unacceptably high death rates
  22 April 2004
• Celebrities lend their voices to children's fight against malaria
  22 April 2004
• UN General Assembly plenary session focuses on road safety for the first time in history
  14 April 2004
• New meningitis threat being contained by web of partnerships
  8 April 2004
• World Health Day: Road safety is no accident!
  7 April 2004
• WHO leads drive for international coordination of clinical research
  2 April 2004
• Far more pregnant women getting antenatal care
  30 March 2004
• WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control now signed by 100 countries
  25 March 2004
• WHO sees surge in progress against tuberculosis on eve of global summit
  23 March 2004
• Global Strategy: Breastfeeding critical for child survival
  23 March 2004
• Substance dependence treatable, says neuroscience expert report
  18 March 2004
• Drug resistant tuberculosis levels ten times higher in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
  16 March 2004
• Canada provides additional funding to the final assault against polio
  11 March 2004
• WHO and UNICEF launch rapid response to contain yellow fever emergency in Liberia
  25 February 2004
• AIDS threat growing throughout Europe
  23 February 2004
• WHO releases new report on global problem of oral diseases
  23 February 2004
• West Africa mobilizes for final assault against polio
  20 February 2004
• WHO announces the membership of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health
  12 February 2004
• Joint needs assessment paves the way for peace and development in Liberia
  5 February 2004
• Jimmy Carter calls for urgency in the fight to eradicate guinea-worm disease in West Africa
  4 February 2004
• Health professionals to promote a new code of conduct on tobacco control
  30 January 2004
• Unprecedented spread of avian influenza requires broad collaboration
  27 January 2004
• WHO Executive Board appoints two Regional Directors
  23 January 2004
• WHO Executive Body reaffirms WHO leadership on key issues for Global Public Health
  23 January 2004
• WHO pushing to rapidly scale-up measures to fight TB and HIV
  21 January 2004
• Unique opportunity for eradication success now rests with key governments
  15 January 2004
• Mozambique mass campaign tests the theory
  14 January 2004
• Broad coalition launches new global alliance to prevent violence
  12 January 2004
• Many countries not on target to reach health-related Millennium Development Goals
  8 January 2004