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.

WHO also works to " reduce morbidity and mortality and improve health during key stages of life, including pregnancy, childbirth, the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence, and improve sexual and reproductive health and promote active and healthy aging for all individuals ".

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 ).

WHO official urged more testing to bring the three recently announced cases into line with their standards ; however they also announced SARS virus had been detected by a WHO team in civet cages at the restaurant where the second case works and in civet cages in the market.

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.

In terms of health services, WHO looks to improve " governance, financing, staffing and management " and the availability and quality of evidence and research to guide policy making.

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is in current use worldwide in the effort to improve patient safety.

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

To improve injection safety, the WHO recommends:

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:

Other guidelines for nutrition also have implications for the beverages we consume for healthy hydration-for example, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) recommend that added sugars should represent no more than 10 % of total energy intake.

FAO and the World Health Organization created the Codex Alimentarius Commission in 1963 to develop food standards, guidelines and texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO / WHO Food Standards Programme.

** Wholesomeness of irradiated food, WHO, Geneva, Technical Report Series No. 659, 1981

** Safety and nutritional adequacy of irradiated food, WHO, Geneva, 1994

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

A 2001 World Health Organization ( WHO ) report found that infant formula prepared in accordance with applicable Codex Alimentarius standards was a safe complementary food and a suitable breast milk substitute.

The five key principles of food hygiene, according to WHO, are:

Apart from Algerian military, material and humanitarian aid, food and emergency resources are provided by international organizations such as the WHO and UNHCR.

The Joint FAO / WHO expert committee on food additives states that, " based on the information available, it is inadvisable to use carrageenan or processed eucheuma seaweed in infant formulas ".

Similarly, FAO / WHO published a guideline for all governments to handle the issue in small and less developed food businesses.

Its texts are developed and maintained by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body that was established in early November 1961 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ), was joined by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in June 1962, and held the first session in Rome in October 1963. The Commission's major goals are to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the international food trade.

The United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) and World Health Organization ( WHO ) will implement these criteria with " labelling to stop consumers overdosing on vitamin and mineral food supplements.

** Food irradiation – A technique for preserving and improving the safety of Food, WHO, Geneva, 1991 ( revised )

In addition, the WHO has also promoted road safety.

* WHO guidelines on safety onitoring of herbal medicines in pharmacovigilance systems

The WHO also notes, though, that " inappropriate use of traditional medicines or practices can have negative or dangerous effects " and that " further research is needed to ascertain the efficacy and safety " of several of the practices and medicinal plants used by traditional medicine systems.

This was partly because of safety concerns ; the WHO wanted as few laboratories as possible handling the virus.

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.

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

At present it is strictly controlled under WHO guidelines as it has proven to be effective against all forms of multi-drug resistant P. falciparum, thus every care is taken to ensure compliance and adherence together with other behaviors associated with the development of resistance.

" The WHO has also said that the Guidelines " ensure that consumers receive beneficial health effects from vitamins and minerals.

In September 2005 was seconded from WHO and appointed Senior United Nations System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to ensure that the United Nations system makes an effective and coordinated contribution to the global effort to control the epidemic of avian influenza ( or “ bird flu ”).

For this year's World Health Day campaign, WHO and international partners underscored the importance of investing in health infrastructure that can withstand hazards and serve people in immediate need, and urged health facilities to implement systems to respond to internal emergencies, such as fires, and ensure the continuity of care.

The WHO has offered four classifications of FGM.

Meanwhile, NCHS received permission from the WHO to create a clinical modification of the ICD-10, and has production of all these systems:

The WHO is revising their classifications in these sections as part the development of the ICD-11 ( scheduled for 2015 ), and an " International Advisory Group " has been established to guide this.

It has been classified by the WHO as a water-related disease.

Since its creation, WHO has been responsible for playing a leading role in the eradication of smallpox.

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 %.

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.

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.

WHO has also worked on global initiatives in surgery, including emergency and essential surgical care, trauma care, and safe surgery.

, the WHO has 194 member states, including the Cook Islands and Niue.

All UN Member States are eligible for WHO membership, and, according to the WHO web site, " other countries may be admitted as members when their application has been approved by a simple majority vote of the World Health Assembly ".

Today, the distinction is strictly followed in some contexts, especially the social sciences and documents written by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), but in many contexts, even in some areas of social sciences, the meaning of gender has expanded to include " sex " or even to replace the latter word.

Each photograph has a heading ' WHO IS GUILTY ?'.

More recently, the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) has stated:

" The WHO does not recommend the use of thalidomide in leprosy as experience has shown that it is virtually impossible to develop and implement a fool-proof surveillance mechanism to combat misuse of the drug.

Prior studies had also assumed a clear glycemic threshold between people at high and low risk of diabetic retinopathy .< ref name =" pmid9203460 "> However, it has been shown that the widely accepted WHO and American Diabetes Association diagnostic cutoff for diabetes of a fasting plasma glucose ≥ 7. 0 mmol / l ( 126 mg / dl ) does not accurately identify diabetic retinopathy among patients.

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.

" Other countries had similar complaints, and the WHO has not repeated this ranking.

:" Moses said to God, ' Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, " The God of your fathers has sent me to you ," and they ask me, ‘ What is his name ?’ Then what shall I tell them ?” God said to Moses, “ I AM WHO I AM " — Exodus 3: 13-14 ( New International Version ) ( see Tetragrammaton ).

PAFMAT has links with many international bodies including WHO.

Since 2002, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) has reported seven plague outbreaks, though some may go unreported because they often happen in remote areas.

REAL has been superseded by the WHO classification.