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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.

WHO's help has contributed to a 40 % fall in the number of deaths from tuberculosis between 1990 and 2010, and since 2005, it claims that over 46 million people have been treated and an estimated 7 million lives saved through practices advocated by WHO.

WHO also addresses government health policy with two aims: firstly, " to address the underlying social and economic determinants of health through policies and programmes that enhance health equity and integrate pro-poor, genderresponsive, and human rights-based approaches " and secondly " to promote a healthier environment, intensify primary prevention and influence public policies in all sectors so as to address the root causes of environmental threats to health ".

WHO aims to improve access to health research and literature in developing countries such as through the HINARI network.

Collaborative efforts between WHO and other agencies, such as through the Health Metrics Network, also aim to provide sufficient high-quality information to assist governmental decision making.

WHO promotes the development of capacities in member states to use and produce research that addresses their national needs, including through the Evidence-Informed Policy Network ( EVIPNet ).

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

Technical experts from China have contributed to WHO through their membership on various WHO technical expert advisory committees and groups.

* A UN agency, the World Health Organization ( WHO ), is financed through the UN system by contributions from member states.

The Milbank Memorial Fund helped to make this extensive series of seminars possible and the WHO, through the Pan American Health Organization, also cooperated in these seminars.

Every other year world figures attend The Student Society through its festival ISFiT and past speakers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, former Director-General of WHO Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Dr José Ramos-Horta and Professor Wangari Maathai.

The claims of the OPV-AIDS hypothesis disrupted the longstanding effort of the WHO and UN to achieve poliomyelitis eradication worldwide through use of the oral polio vaccine of Albert Sabin, which is thought to be safe and effective by virtually all medical authorities.

" The United States is collaborating closely with eight international organizations, including the World Health Organization ( WHO ), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ), the World Organization for Animal Health ( OIE ), and 88 foreign governments to address the situation through planning, greater monitoring, and full transparency in reporting and investigating avian influenza occurrences.

Libya requested and received an emergency WHO team which was sent in December and stayed through to January 1999.

For example, a memo made publicly available through www. tobaccoarchives. com was sent out to executives of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in preparation for the third annual World No Tobacco Day, which had the theme of “ Childhood and Youth Without Tobacco .” The memo includes a warning about the upcoming day, a document that explains the arguments they anticipate the WHO making, and an explanation of how the company should respond to these claims.

The principle of international collaboration in the field of pharmacovigilance is the principal basis for the WHO International Drug Monitoring Programme, through which over 100 member nations have systems in place that encourage healthcare personnel to record and report adverse effects of drugs in their patients.

His work was then spread through the World Health Organization ( WHO ) to the rest of the world.

His work was then spread through the WHO to the rest of the world.

The World Health Assembly ( WHA ) is the forum through which the World Health Organization ( WHO ) is governed by its 194 member states.

In addition, the WHA has endorsed through resolutions a number of WHO action plans dealing with different areas to improve health around the world, such as:

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.

This has resulted from the work FIP has done internally and through mutually beneficial partnerships with key global players, such as, the World Health Organization ( WHO ).

By the 10th Revision of the WHO International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, low vision is defined as visual acuity of less than 20 / 60 ( 6 / 18 ), but equal to or better than 20 / 200 ( 6 / 60 ), or corresponding visual field loss to less than 20 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.

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 ).

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) recommends immunization of high risk groups, such as children and people with HIV, in countries where this disease is endemic.

A WHO study released in January 2008 found that mass distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and artemisinin – based drugs cut malaria deaths in half in Rwanda and Ethiopia, countries with high malaria burdens.

According to the WHO, 100 – 140 million women and girls are living with FGM, including 92 million girls over the age of 10 in Africa.

** High-dose irradiation: Wholesomeness of food irradiated with doses above 10 kGy, WHO, Geneva, 1999, Technical Report Series No. 890

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.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) reports that approximately 50 million people worldwide are infected with MDR TB, with 79 percent of those cases resistant to three or more antibiotics.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations ( UN ) that is concerned with international public health.

In terms of HIV / AIDS, WHO works within the UNAIDS network and considers it important that it works in alignment with UNAIDS objectives and strategies.

In line with UNAIDS, WHO has set itself the interim task between 2009 and 2015 of reducing the number of those aged 15 – 24 years who are infected by 50 %; reducing new HIV infections in children by 90 %; and reducing HIV-related deaths by 25 %.

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.

The remaining two of WHO's thirteen identified policy areas relate to the role of WHO itself: firstly, " to provide leadership, strengthen governance and foster partnership and collaboration with countries, the United Nations system, and other stakeholders in order to fulfill the mandate of WHO in advancing the global health agenda " and secondly " to develop and sustain WHO as a flexible, learning organization, enabling it to carry out its mandate more efficiently and effectively ".

Other publications of WHO include the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal ( overseen by EMRO ), the Human Resources for Health ( published in collaboration with BioMed Central ), and the Pan American Journal of Public Health ( overseen by PAHO / AMRO ).

Non-members of the WHO include Liechtenstein and other states with limited diplomatic recognition.

In addition, the UN observer organizations International Committee of the Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have entered into " official relations " with WHO and are invited as observers.

A WHO publication for physicians recommends a homemade ORS consisting of one liter water with one teaspoon salt ( 3 grams ) and two tablespoons sugar ( 18 grams ) added ( approximately the " taste of tears ").

WHO recommends a child with diarrhea continue to be fed.

In 1965, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) Expert Committee on Dependence-producing Drugs ' Fourteenth Report noted, " The Committee was pleased to note the resolution of the Economic and Social Council with respect to khat, confirming the view that the abuse of this substance is a regional problem and may best be controlled at that level ".

The Institute of Traditional Medicine was set up in 1979 with assistance from World Health Organization ( WHO ) to develop and popularise the herbal medicine, which has been used by the rural people in Bhutan for past many centuries.