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Smokers Keen to Break the Habit Get No Help From the WHO

November 2016 ReasonFoundation; The World Health Organization estimates that smoking kills nearly six million people a year world-wide, and the death toll has continued to rise since it set up the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2005. So it’s dismaying that the WHO continues to advocate that vaping products, …

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Global Leaders Move Against Antimicrobial Resistance

September 2016 WHOMediaCentre; World leaders today signalled an unprecedented level of attention to curb the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) happens when bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi develop resistance against medicines that were previously able to cure them. For the first time, Heads …

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UN Health Agency Names Michael Bloomberg Global Ambassador On Noncommunicable Diseases

August 2016 UNnews; The World Health Organization (WHO) today named Michael R. Bloomberg, former New York City mayor and philanthropist, as its Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs). These diseases, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, and injuries are responsible for 43 million deaths each year …

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UGANDA: Govt to Stop Oral Polio Vaccine

July 2016 theObserver; The oral polio vaccine, OPV, will be off the shelves in three years’ time, government has said, because it has side effects. Government will switch to the safer injectable polio vaccine (IPV). “By 2020, we will stop giving out OPV to children because it has side effects …

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