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WHO is a specialized agency of the UNITED NATIONS system, and is the leading technical agency on matters relating to public health, worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been providing technical assistance to the Government of the Peoples? Republic of Bangladesh for the development and strengthening of the country?s public health systems since 1972. WHO defines health "as a state of complete, physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". To realize the objective of attaining the highest possible level of health by all people, WHO has formulated a corporate strategy comprised of seven strategic directions and six core functions, which provide a broad framework for focusing WHO's collaboration with countries. In addition, a six-year Medium-term Strategic Plan based on thirteen strategic objectives (SOs) has been developed for Bangladesh and other SEAR countries.
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AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history
- 2008-06-30
AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history. A key feature of its politicization was the claim that without massive funding for prevention programs, the disease would escape into the general population from its bases among homosexual men and needle-using drug addicts. Heterosexuals were all under threat, we...
Conference to examine world obesity epidemic
- 2007-10-19
WASHINGTON AFP — Some 1,800 researchers will gather in New Orleans this weekend to discuss efforts to treat and contain the worldwide obesity epidemic. More than 300 studies will be presented during the annual conference, organized by the Obesity Society, a US scientific association created 25 years ago to...
Managing Crises: Lessons for Managers from the SARS Outbreak in China
- 2007-09-01
An examination of the events and responses surrounding the SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome crisis provides a context to analyze crisis management strategy. Herein, we suggest that organizations need to expand the breadth of crisis management to respond proactively to an array of potential threats. Herein, we also introduce an...
Caption only: World AIDS Day is today
- 2006-12-01
Hannah Epperson and Kevin Ingraham of Salt Lake City participate in a vigil to mark World AIDS Day outside the City-County Building Thursday. Established on Dec. 1 by the World Health Organization in 1988, World AIDS Day helps to focus global attention on the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. More than 25...
China reports 70,000 new HIV infections in 2005
- 2006-05-21
BEIJING -- International health organizations warn that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is spreading to Chinas general population, after another 70,000 people contracted the virus last year, bringing the country's total to 650,000. The figures were released in a joint statement by China's Health Ministry, the World Health Organization WHO and...
AIDS claims more lives in Africa
- 2005-11-21
JOHANNESBURG AFP — AIDS is keeping Africa in its death grip, claiming 2.4 million lives on the continent in 2005 out of the worldwide death toll of 3.1 million from the epidemic, according to the annual AIDS report. While 480,000 people died of AIDS in Asia, 18,000 in North...
Ill-equipped Comoros struggles to battle raging measles epidemic
- 2005-08-31
MORONI AFP — Comoran health authorities are struggling to contain an epidemic of measles that has sickened more than 1,000 people in the impoverished Indian Ocean archipelago in the last two months, officials said. Hobbled by a lack of resources, decrepit facilities and a shortage of qualified medical personnel,...
Avian flu from an occupational health perspective.
- 2005-03-01
ABSTRACT. Although a pandemic scenario necessarily involves a situation in which a large number of people become infected in a nonoccupational setting, past infectious disease events have highlighted the unique role that occupational exposure may play in the emergence of disease in humans. While small-scale poultry...
SWITZERLAND: WHO WARNS OF EPIDEMIC OUTBREAK IN TSUNAMI HIT AREA.(World Health Organization)(Brief Article)
- 2005-01-10
According to IINA, the World Health Organization WHO has warned of the outbreak of epidemic diseases that may result in the death of some 150,000 people in the Tsunami-hit regions unless urgent steps have been taken to make available of clean drink According to IINA, the...
Asia threatened by HIV/AIDS epidemic.(Issues)
- 2004-08-01
Unless preventive measures are enacted, Asia will be the next region threatened by an HIV/AIDS epidemic, health experts warn. Reports and recent studies from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS UN AIDS point to Asia as the region with a rising occurrence of...
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