In its efforts to promote safe and cost-effective use of medicines, the World Health Organization (WHO) today releases the first edition of the WHO Model Formulary. The formulary is the first ever publication to give comprehensive information on all 325 medicines contained in the WHO ...
Ministers and representatives from twelve African countries have committed themselves, and laid out their plans, to end AIDS in children by 2030. International partners have set out how they would support countries in delivering on those plans, which were issued at the first ministeri...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is fuelling a widening and increasinglydeadly famine in southern Africa, according to a new report “AIDSEpidemic Update 2002”. The comprehensive new update on the globalHIV/AIDS epidemic was issued today by the Joint United Nations Programmeon HIV/AIDS (UNAID...
A new WHO report, "Impact of AIDS on older people in Africa”,reveals the harsh realities faced by older persons caring for theirHIV-infected adult children and/or their orphaned grandchildren. Thereport, based on a case study done in Zimbabwe, highlights theadditional stigma faced b...
A new international alliance - the International HIVTreatment Access Coalition (ITAC) - launched today in Geneva and Dakaraims to boost efforts to provide access to antiretroviral drugs to thegrowing number of people with HIV/AIDS in low and middle incomecountries who need them.Accord...
The World Health Organization today issued a joint Action Planto alleviate human suffering in crisis shaken West Africa. During athree-day meeting in Accra with officials from Ministries of Health ofthe region, WHO staff examined the challenges of the health sector andfinalized a co-o...
The World Health Assembly has given a powerful endorsement tonew strategic directions for child and adolescent health. The strategybrings together crucial elements to reduce childhood deaths and longterm disability. It also aims to reduce the 1.4 million adolescentdeaths each year.Las...
Editors of “Colors” magazine document the worsening global TB/HIV crisis inbold new WHO report released todayThe World Health Organization today called for free anti-TBdrugs (ATDs) and quality care to be made widely available to peopleliving with HIV, along with renewed efforts to...
HIV/AIDS given new focus and priorityDr LEE Jong-wook takes office today as Director-General of theWorld Health Organization, with a pledge to focus the organization onHIV/AIDS, on achieving results in countries, and on helping to tacklethe widespread human resources crisis in the hea...
HIV/AIDS is a “catastrophe” and people affected need urgentaccess to treatment, said Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of theWorld Health Organization (WHO) in his speech to health ministers fromthe WHO African Region (AFRO). Today, Dr Lee made his first address tothe WHO African...
The failure to deliver antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for AIDSto the millions of people who need it is a global health emergency. Wehave the medicines to treat people for a dollar a day or less but thesemedicines are not getting to the people who need them.Some six million people in d...
But the increase could be slowed through preventionThe number of cases of diabetes in developing countries islikely to increase more than two-fold in the next 30 years, from 115million in 2000 to 284 million in 2030. WHO has marked World DiabetesDay, 14 November, 2003, with a commitme...
Rapid Increases in Newer HIV Epidemics in Asia and Eastern Europe Despite Improvements, Current Prevention and Care Efforts are InadequateThe global AIDS epidemic shows no signs of abating. Fivemillion people became infected with HIV worldwide and 3 million diedthis year alone – the...
Key component of 3 by 5 strategyAs the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS today launchtheir 3 by 5 strategy to treat three million people living with AIDS by2005, there is already substantial progress in one key area. WHO isadding three new generic products for first-line AIDS...
Comprehensive Approach to HIV/AIDS Treatment and PreventionNew AIDS Medicine and Diagnostics ServiceSimple Treatment Regimens PublishedTraining Tens of Thousands of People to Support AIDS Treatment and PreventionThe World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS today release a detailed a...
Health care systems must be strengthened through focusedaction in countries if global health goals agreed by the internationalcommunity are to be met, according to a new report published by theWorld Health Organization (WHO). The health care services of mostdeveloping countries requir...
Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of the World Health Organization, died this morning following a short illness.Dr Lee, a national of the Republic of Korea, was a world leader in public health. He tackled every challenge with passion, dedication and professionalism. He was unfalterin...