World Health Organization
How Your Tax Dollars Are Fighting the Zombie Apocalypse
A tiny percentage of your tax dollars are going a long way to avoid the dystopian end-of-the world
Yet More Progress Against Polio
Angola goes one year without any new polio cases.
World Health Organization Preparing Response to Ebola Outbreak in Uganda
The situation is still very much in flux. For now, though, there is a sense that the authorities are responding as they should and along international guidelines that the WHO has established to deal with emergencies like these.
Our Aging Population
Within the next five years, people over age 65 will outnumber children under 5 for the first time. This plays into other demographic changes such as urbanization: between 1975 and 2005, the number of older people living in urban areas quadrupled.
How the World Health Organization is Helping to Prevent a Catastrophic H5N1 Flu Pandemic
Preventing the outbreak of a deadly flu strain is just one of the many reasons to support the World Health Organization.
Highlights from the the World Health Assembly
Day two of the World Health Assembly included keynotes from Bill Gates and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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The SC; HRC; DPRK; South Sudan
The SC: The Security Council today held its last consultations under the Council Presidency of ROK. Tomorrow, Russia will take over the rotating Presidency of the Security Council for March under Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
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The SG; Mali; Middle East; Palestine
The SG: At the Fifth Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna, Austria today, the SG emphasized the role of youth in ensuring a “prosperous, equitable and peaceful future.”
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The SG; DRC; HRC; Palestinian Prisoner
The SG: In Ethiopia over the weekend, the SG is now in the United Arab Emirates. Today he met with Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, where the two discussed developments in the region, including Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, and in the Middle East Peace Process.
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