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The yellow fever 'booster' vaccination given ten years after the initial vaccination is not necessary, according to the World Health Organization. WHO
The yellow fever 'booster' vaccination given ten years after the initial vaccination is not necessary, according to the World Health Organization. WHO
According to road safety experts meeting this week in Geneva, for every person killed on the road due to alcohol-related accidents, two to three people are killed in accidents due to fatigue. CH UNTV
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that three more people in Saudi Arabia have been diagnosed with the new novel Coronavirus (nCoV), including two people who have died of the SARS-like virus in recent days. CH UNTV
A new Global Action Plan launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF has the potential to save up to 2 million children every year from deaths caused by pneumonia and diarrhoea, some of the leading killers of children under five globally. WHO/UNICEF
The DRC steps up effort to curb measles outbreak in the east. UNICEF
Since 2011, UNICEF and the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) have formed a partnership to fight cholera in Port-au-Prince. UNICEF
A comprehensive assessment by international experts on the health risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) disaster inJapanconcluded that, for the general population inside and outside ofJapan, the predicted risks are low. WHO / FILE
UNAIDS launches the "2012 World AIDS Day Report, and the UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic in Geneva on Tuesday 20 November. UNAIDS
The Roll Back Malaria campaign launched its Progress & Impact report: 'Defeating Malaria in Asia, the Pacific, Americas, Middle East and Europe' in Sydney on today. ROLL BACK MALARIA (RBM)
An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report 2012.But a funding gap threatens to interrupt progress. WHO