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28 July 2011
Departmental update

Launching of the programme for elimination of schistosomiasis transmission from Zanzibar

24 July 2011
Departmental update

Celebrating one year without a reported human case of rabies in KwaZuluNatal, South Africa

20 July 2011
News release

WHO warns against the use of inaccurate blood tests for active tuberculosis

20 July 2011
Departmental update

Celebrated Argentine painter donates artwork to create visibility about Chagas disease

18 July 2011
News release

HIV treatment reaching 6.6 million people, but majority still in need

25 June 2011
Departmental update

WHO Informal Consultation on echinococcosis recommends vaccination of animals to prevent human transmission

22 June 2011
Departmental update

Meeting of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB (STAG-TB)

22 June 2011
Departmental update

WHO Director thanks Princess Akishino of Japan for her support for TB control

14 June 2011
News release

Voluntary unpaid blood donations increase, saving more lives

7 June 2011
Departmental update

One million lives can be saved between now and the end of 2015 by preventing and treating tuberculosis among people living with HIV‬

3 June 2011
Departmental update

Ms Peng Liyuan is appointed WHO Goodwill Ambassador

27 May 2011
News release

Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly closes after passing multiple resolutions

27 May 2011
Departmental update

World No Tobacco Day 2011 awards - the winners

23 May 2011
Departmental update

New cases of human African trypanosomiasis continue to drop

18 May 2011
Departmental update

Xpert MTB/RIF - rapid TB test - WHO publishes policy and guidance for implementers

4 May 2011
Departmental update

Cuban Public Registry of Clinical Trials a new member

14 April 2011
News release

2.6 million babies stillborn in 2009

7 April 2011
News release

World Health Day 2011

1 April 2011
Departmental update

The official launch of a rabies elimination programme funded by the Gates Foundation and coordinated by WHO will take place in the Richards Bay/Uthungulu area of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa on 22 April 2011

25 March 2011
News release

Partners call for increased commitment to tackle MDR-TB

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6 June 2019
News release

Food safety is everyone’s business

6 June 2019
News release

More than 1 million new curable sexually transmitted infections every day

23 February 2018
Departmental update

INFOSAN in action to control an outbreak of salmonellosis linked to infant formula

4 February 2019
Departmental update

New toolkit to improve collection and use of data in cervical cancer programmes

29 May 2019
Statement

Polio: Statement of the Twenty-first IHR Emergency Committee

28 September 2018
Departmental update

WHO launches SAFER alcohol control initiative to prevent and reduce alcohol-related death and disability

28 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 28 May 2019

16 June 2016
Departmental update

Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem

27 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 27 May 2019

29 May 2019
News release

WHO highlights huge scale of tobacco-related lung disease deaths

25 May 2019
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World Health Assembly Update, 25 May 2019

24 May 2019
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World Health Assembly Update, 24 May 2019

23 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 23 May 2019

23 May 2019
Departmental update

WHO launches global strategy for prevention and control of snakebite envenoming

23 May 2019
Statement

United Nations strengthens Ebola response in Democratic Republic of the Congo

8 May 2018
Departmental update

Against all odds, Yemen launches its first large-scale treatment campaign against trachoma

21 May 2018
Departmental update

Nepal: first country in South-East Asia validated for eliminating trachoma

25 September 2018
Departmental update

Trachoma elimination: Iranians triumph against the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness

22 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 22 May 2019

22 May 2019
News release

Five billion people still at risk from industrial trans fat exposure

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6 June 2019
News release

Food safety is everyone’s business

6 June 2019
News release

More than 1 million new curable sexually transmitted infections every day

23 February 2018
Departmental update

INFOSAN in action to control an outbreak of salmonellosis linked to infant formula

4 February 2019
Departmental update

New toolkit to improve collection and use of data in cervical cancer programmes

29 May 2019
Statement

Polio: Statement of the Twenty-first IHR Emergency Committee

28 September 2018
Departmental update

WHO launches SAFER alcohol control initiative to prevent and reduce alcohol-related death and disability

28 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 28 May 2019

16 June 2016
Departmental update

Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem

27 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 27 May 2019

29 May 2019
News release

WHO highlights huge scale of tobacco-related lung disease deaths

25 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 25 May 2019

24 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 24 May 2019

23 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 23 May 2019

23 May 2019
Departmental update

WHO launches global strategy for prevention and control of snakebite envenoming

23 May 2019
Statement

United Nations strengthens Ebola response in Democratic Republic of the Congo

8 May 2018
Departmental update

Against all odds, Yemen launches its first large-scale treatment campaign against trachoma

21 May 2018
Departmental update

Nepal: first country in South-East Asia validated for eliminating trachoma

25 September 2018
Departmental update

Trachoma elimination: Iranians triumph against the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness

22 May 2019
News release

World Health Assembly Update, 22 May 2019

22 May 2019
News release

Five billion people still at risk from industrial trans fat exposure

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