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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
Ties Boerma, Director of the Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems at WHO says that although enormous progress in the battle against infectious diseases, child mortality and maternal mortality has been made, "still it is far from enough. The world is still an inequitable place; a very inequitable place." WHO
Talking about the recent outbrake of Coronavirus, the World Health Organization's Spokesperson Gregory Hartl said today in Geneva that "Anytime a new virus starts infecting humans, we have to take it seriously and especially a virus which has killed 60 percent of the people it infects." WHO
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
The World Health Organization (WHO) is encouraging patients and their family members to join health workers in their efforts to practice good hand hygiene. CH UNTV
UNICEF, along with its partners GAVI Alliance and the World Health Organization, launched a vaccination campaign in Somalia with the goal of saving children’s lives in a country that has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. UNICEF
China recorded its 88th H7N9 infection yesterday (18 April). Seventeen of the cases have been fatal and "several" patients are in critical condition, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). CH UNTV
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) today renewed an appeal for millions of dollars to help meet the needs of tens of thousands of Malian refugees and almost 300,000 internally displaced people. CH UNTV
The government of Kuwait has made available US Dollars $275 million to nine aid agencies responding to the Syrian humanitarian crisis. CH UNTV
At a press conference in Geneva yesterday (17 April) In advance of World Immunization Week, Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Director, of Immunization, Vaccination and Biologicals said that WHO wanted World Immunization Week to be an opportunity to celebrate the growing benefits of vaccination, "the great impact that one can get through vaccines". [...]