This announcement was made on 1040 WHO Talk Radio in Iowa.

The reasons for variable efficacy have been discussed at length in a WHO document on BCG.

DDT is classified as " moderately toxic " by the United States National Toxicology Program ( NTP ) and " moderately hazardous " by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), based on the rat oral of 113 mg / kg.

WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition.

The term was adopted at the third conference of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and in 1991 the WHO recommended its use to the United Nations.

The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

In 1979 the American feminist writer Fran Hosken ( 1920 – 2006 ) presented research about it — The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females — to the first Seminar on Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, sponsored by the WHO.

* Joint FAO / WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

* Evaluation of certain Food Additives and Contaminants ; Sixty-first report of the Joint FAO / WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

* 1980 FAO / IAEA / WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Irradiation recommends the clearance generally up to 10 kGy " overall average dose "

* 1997 FAO / IAEA / WHO Joint Study Group on High-Dose Irradiation recommends to lift any upper dose limit

In accordance with a recommendation of the WHO Expert Committee on Health Statistics, this revision was limited to essential changes and amendments of errors and inconsistencies.

Laos is a member of the following international organizations: Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation ( ACCT ), Association of Southeast Asian NationsASEAN, ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ), ASEAN Regional Forum, Asian Development Bank, Colombo Plan, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific ( ESCAP ), Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), Group of 77G-77, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( World Bank ), International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ), International Development Association ( IDA ), International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ), International Finance Corporation ( IFC ), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Labour Organization ( ILO ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), Intelsat ( nonsignatory user ), Interpol, International Olympic Commission ( IOC ), International Telecommunication UnionITU, Mekong Group, Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ), Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), United Nations, United Nations Convention on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), Universal Postal Union ( UPU ), World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization ( WHO ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ), World Tourism Organization, World Trade Organization ( observer ).

The most common method of staging was defined by the Fifth WHO Expert Committee on Filariasis:

In a virtual press conference in May 2009 on the influenza pandemic Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General ad Interim for Health Security and Environment, WHO said " An easy way to think about pandemic ... is to say: a pandemic is a global outbreak.

In planning for a possible influenza pandemic the WHO published a document on pandemic preparedness guidance in 1999, revised in 2005 and in February 2009, defining phases and appropriate actions for each phase in an aide memoir entitled WHO pandemic phase descriptions and main actions by phase.

WHO is responsible for the World Health Report, a leading international publication on health, the worldwide World Health Survey, and World Health Day.

In 1986, WHO started it global programme on the growing problem of HIV / AIDS, followed two years later by additional attention on preventing discrimination against sufferers and UNAIDS was formed in 1996.

WHO works to improve nutrition, food safety and food security and to ensure this has a positive effect on public health and sustainable development.

The organization relies on contributions from renowned scientists and professionals to inform its work, such as the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization, the WHO Expert Committee on Leprosy, and the WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education & Collaborative Practice.

This finding helped influence the World Health Organization ( WHO ) to change its guidelines for treating HIV-infected infants.

WHO selected this theme in recognition that climate change is posing ever growing threats to global public health security.

However, since 1988 the WHO has classified diesel emissions as " probably carcinogenic to humans " and this classification ( in part ) has led to the new tighter standards on diesel emission ( such as the Tier 4 emission standards of the ARL ).

1. International Classification of Disease ( ICD 2007 )/ WHO classification:

The ICD is a core classification of the WHO Family of International Classifications ( WHO-FIC ).

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) produce a six-stage classification that describes the process by which a novel influenza virus moves from the first few infections in humans through to a pandemic.

This classification is accepted by the WHO.

The latest lymphoma classification, the 2008 WHO classification, largely abandoned the " Hodgkin " vs. " Non-Hodgkin " grouping.

The latest classification by the WHO ( 2008 ) lists 70 different forms of lymphoma divided in four broad groups.

REAL has been superseded by the WHO classification.

The WHO Classification, published in 2001 and updated in 2008, is the latest classification of lymphoma and is based upon the foundations laid within the " Revised European-American Lymphoma classification " ( REAL ).

1. International Classification of Disease ( ICD 2007 )/ WHO classification:

* Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System, a WHO drug classification system

" This classification was first created in 1980 and then called the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps, or ICIDH by WHO to provide a unifying framework for classifying the health components of functioning and disability.

The ICF classification complements WHO ’ s International Classification of Diseases-10th Revision ( ICD ), which contains information on diagnosis and health condition, but not on functional status.

In 1979, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) classified seven subtypes, upgraded in 2000 to a classification system with nine low-grade variants ( grade I tumors ) and three variants each of grade II and grade III meningiomas.

Classification of meningiomas are based upon the WHO classification system.

According to the WHO classification of the tumors of the central nervous system, the standard name for this brain tumor is " glioblastoma "; it presents two variants: giant cell glioblastoma and gliosarcoma.

Of numerous grading systems in use for the classification of tumor of the central nervous system, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) grading system is commonly used for astrocytoma.

It features in the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) classification of lymphomas.

To make this diagnosis under its present system of classification, the WHO the presence of " hallmark " cells and immunopositivity for CD30.

The USAN Council works in conjunction with the World Health Organization ( WHO ) International Nonproprietary Name ( INN ) Expert Committee and national nomenclature groups to standardize drug nomenclature and establish rules governing the classification of new substances.

* WHO classification of a Lysosomal storage disease