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Key step forward on International Health Rules
The global health community has taken a key step towards ensuring rapid action against future outbreaks of infectious diseases and other threats to international public h...
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Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses
The World Health Assembly has given a powerful endorsement to new strategic directions for child and adolescent health. The strategy brings together crucial elements to r...
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Identifying the SARS virus in 2003: reading a scientific milestone
Understand WHO’s April 2003 SARS announcement through the distinction between a clinical syndrome, a candidate pathogen and evidence supporting causation.
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Iraq needs $325 million for emergency health care, says World Health Organization
The people of Iraq are in urgent need of better health care and their situation is deteriorating by the day. The UN has today appealed for at least $325 million in emerge...
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