WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition.

It has also been successful in helping to reduce cases by 99 % since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988, which partnered WHO with Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) and the United Nations Children ’ s Fund ( UNICEF ), as well as smaller organizations.

Other international policy frameworks produced by WHO include the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes ( adopted in 1981 ), Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ( adopted in 2003 ) and the Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel ( adopted in 2010 ).

In 2003, the WHO and UNICEF published their Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, which restated that " processed-food products for infants and young children should, when sold or otherwise distributed, meet applicable standards recommended by the Codex Alimentarius Commission ", and also warned that " lack of breastfeeding — and especially lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first half-year of life — are important risk factors for infant and childhood morbidity and mortality ".

* WHO Global Alert and Response Disease Outbreak News: Shigellosis

Now a partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative ( GPEI ) with WHO, UNICEF and the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rotary is recognized by the United Nations as the key private partner in the eradication effort.

Global Alerts are also issued by agencies such as the World Health Organization ( WHO ), when there is a perceived threat of international pandemic, ( global epidemic ), such as the threat of a SARS, ( Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ), pandemic during March 2003, due to its high contagion level which was rapidly spread by travelers sharing international flights.

* World Health Organisation: WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008

He currently chairs the Royal College of Physicians ' Working Party on Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry ; co-chairs a WHO Scientific Advisory Group on Clinical Trials Registration ; is a Council Member of the Global Forum for Health Research ; is a Board Member of the Health Metrics Network ; sits on the External Reference Group for WHO's Research Strategy ; and is an External Advisory Board Member for the WHO European Region.

WHO ’ s Global Strategy on Reproductive Health, adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2004, noted: “ As a preventable cause of maternal mortality and morbidity, unsafe abortion must be dealt with as part of the MDG on improving maternal health and other international development goals and targets.

During the period 1996 to 1998, through a series of consultations between the Programme Advisory Group ( PAG ) of WHO, the Partnership Committee, and the Task Force, the document, " Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness ", was developed and adopted.

The Task Force was integrated within IAPB, becoming the " Task Force of IAPB ", and a Memorandum of Understanding to implement the " Global Initiative to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness " was signed between IAPB and WHO.

The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was developed in a context of making aware of international health worker recruitment.

WHO ’ s Global Strategy on Reproductive Health, adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2004, noted: “ As a preventable cause of maternal mortality and morbidity, unsafe abortion must be dealt with as part of the MDG on improving maternal health and other international development goals and targets.

A Harvard-trained anthropologist, Popp was actually a collaborator of the Flying Doctors, a branch of the African Medical Research Foundation ( AMREF ), and a consultant for the WHO in Kenya, where he had organized a conference in the new Global AIDS Program that very year.

Regular statistical updates on the global HHR situation are collated in the WHO Global Atlas of the Health Workforce.

WHO runs the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, targeted at improving health policy and systems.

International non-governmental organization PATH, the WHO, the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the GAVI Alliance are working to bring rotavirus vaccines to developing countries, where children face the greatest burden.

Partners include the World Health Organization ( WHO ), DataDyne, the mHealth Alliance, the World Food Program ( WFP ), Telecoms Sans Frontieres, and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA ).

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates that it accounted for 15 % of blindness cases in 1995, but only 3. 6 % in 2002.

The WHO estimates that 100 – 140 million women and girls around the world have experienced the procedure, including 92 million in Africa.

There are about 40, 000 new cases of XDR-TB per year, the WHO estimates.

The WHO estimates that yellow fever causes 200, 000 illnesses and 30, 000 deaths every year in unvaccinated populations ; today nearly 90 % of the infections occur in Africa.

Insufficient data exist, but conservative estimates from the WHO suggest that 90 million cases of Shigellosis are contracted annually, with at least 100, 000 of these resulting in death.

The WHO estimates that 94 percent of these diarrheal cases are preventable through modifications to the environment, including access to safe water.

The WHO estimates that although incidences vary between 2. 6 % and 33 %, the prevalence globally is approximately 10 % of breastfeeding women.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates that 80 percent of the population of some Asian and African countries presently use herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates that 80 percent of the population of some Asian and African countries presently use herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care.

The WHO ’ s latest estimates highlighted that globally approximately 1. 5 billion adults were overweight in 2008, and nearly 43 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010.

In the studies the WHO reviews, daily mercury exposure estimates range from 3 μg / day to 9 μg / day.

The WHO estimates that 2. 7 million deaths are attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetable every year.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates that nearly 10 million people die from preventable conditions such as diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, tuberculosis, vaccine-preventable diseases, and complications of childbirth.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates that the world faces a shortage of 4. 3 million health professionals required for delivering essential health care services to populations in need ( New England ).

The WHO estimates that each year, 358 000 women die due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth ; 99 % of these deaths occur within the most disadvantaged population groups living in the poorest countries of the world.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates a shortage of almost 4. 3 million physicians, midwives, nurses and support workers worldwide .”.

WHO estimates that up to 500, 000 people are on planes at any time.

The addictive properties of the drug nicotine in tobacco are often compared with heroin or cocaine, but tobacco is legal, even though the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in the 2002 World Health Report estimates that in developed countries, 26 % of male deaths and 9 % of female deaths can be attributed to tobacco smoking.

In 2007, The WHO stopped recommending BCG for infants with HIV, even if there is a high risk of exposure to TB, because of the risk of disseminated BCG infection ( which is approximately 400 per 100, 000 ).

Worldwide there are about 600 million people living in endemic areas and the official estimations of the WHO amount to 200, 000 cases of disease and 30, 000 deaths a year ; the number of officially reported cases is far lower.

In the United Kingdom the professional body is the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering ( educational charity status ) and it is true that the trade still remains virtually ungoverned ; there are no systems in place to monitor or control the activities of unqualified plumbers or those home owners who choose to undertake installation and maintenance works themselves, despite the health and safety issues which arise from such works when they are undertaken incorrectly ; see Health Aspects of Plumbing ( HAP ) published jointly by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) and the World Plumbing Council ( WPC ).

An epidemiological study conducted by WHO and Uganda Ministry of Health scientists determined there were 116 confirmed and probable cases of the new Ebola species, and that the outbreak had a mortality rate of 34 % ( 39 deaths ).

In parts of Eastern Europe, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) reports some swine herds have trichinosis infection rates above 50 %, and there are correspondingly large numbers of human infections.

WHO doctor Carlo Urbani, an infectious diseases specialist based in Hanoi who attended Mr Chen, noticed the outbreak among hospital workers there and first recognized SARS as a new disease.

The World Health Organization defines chronic suppurative otitis media ( CSOM ) as " a stage of ear disease in which there is chronic infection of the middle ear cleft, a non-intact tympanic membrane ( i. e. perforated eardrum ) and discharge ( otorrhoea ), for at least the preceding two weeks " ( WHO 1998 ).

A comprensive study by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in 2004 stated that there is a " compelling case that NSPs substantially and cost effectively reduce the spread of HIV among IDUs and do so without evidence of exacerbating injecting drug use at either the individual or societal level.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) International Agency for Research on Cancer ( IARC ), concluded that there were insufficient studies in pancreatic cancer, and while it found evidence for an inverse association between vitamin D and colorectal cancer to be persuasive, it found evidence for a causal link to be limited, and also found that randomized controlled trials ( RCTs ) were inconclusive.

According to the WHO, in their guidelines on chiropractic practice, spinal manipulation is contraindicated for disc herniations when there are progressive neurological deficits.

In 2009, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimated that there are 33. 4 million people worldwide living with HIV / AIDS, with 2. 7 million new HIV infections per year and 2. 0 million annual deaths due to AIDS.

Although there is only one serotype of mumps virus, according to recent update by WHO ( June 2012 ), There are currently 12 genotypes A-N, ( namely A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, N ) excluding ( E and M ) and L-Zagreb vaccine strain comes under genotype N. The typing scheme is based on the sequence of the small hydrophobic ( SH ) gene.

An epidemiological study conducted by WHO and Uganda Ministry of Health scientists determined there were 116 confirmed and probable cases the new Ebola species, and that the outbreak had a mortality rate of 34 % ( 39 deaths ).

WHO goes further to explain that squalene has been present in over 22 million flu vaccines given to patients in Europe since 1997 and there have never been significant vaccine-related adverse events.

Formal WHO recommendations first issued in 1973 ; beginning 1999 there have been two recommendations per year, one for the northern hemisphere ( N ) and the other for the southern hemisphere ( S ).

According to WHO intravenous AS is the drug of choice for severe malaria both in children and adults where there is low transmission.

He joined the Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases ( NICED ), Calcutta, a constituent Institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research and a WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Diarrhoeal Diseases, in 1981 and worked there till April 5, 2000, after which he took up his current assignment.

Luukanen-Kilde also claims there are secret military and intelligence agencies practising mind control technology on the world population using cell phones and supercomputers and that a plot to kill most of the Earth's population using the swine flu vaccine is being carried out by the WHO, Henry Kissinger, and the Bilderberg Group.

According to Senomyx ’ s website, it " received a positive review by the Joint FAO / WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, which determined that there were no safety concerns with the use of the Company ’ s savory flavor ingredients in foods.