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“Give blood for those who give life”: World Blood Donor Day 2014

“Give blood for those who give life”: World Blood Donor Day 2014

11 June 2014 | Cairo, Egypt – This year’s World Blood Donor Day highlights the fact that safe blood saves the lives of mothers. It is a call to save the lives of the thousands of women worldwide who die every year due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. The slogan of this year’s World Blood Donor Day campaign is “give blood for...

WHO concludes a MERS-CoV risk assessment mission in the United Arab Emirates

WHO concludes a MERS-CoV risk assessment mission in the United Arab Emirates

WHO/R. Sidani6 June 2014 | Cairo, Egypt – A team from the WHO has concluded a 5-day mission in United Arab Emirates (UAE) to assess the risk posed by the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the country. Health authorities in UAE had invited WHO to review the current situation after an upsurge of cases in April. The team had...

Raise taxes on tobacco: A sound policy with a powerful impact on health and the economy

Raise taxes on tobacco: A sound policy with a powerful impact on health and the economy

28 May 2014 | Cairo, Egypt – On World No Tobacco Day, 31 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on countries to raise tobacco taxes. Higher taxes on tobacco raise more revenue for governments and health programmes, reduce tobacco use and lead to healthier communities and healthier economies.  Tobacco taxation works Taxation is one of the...

First round of health journalism training successfully coming to an end

First round of health journalism training successfully coming to an end

Participant journalists from Libya during the first round of training held in TunisiaCairo, 22 May 2014 – The first round of a joint WHO/Agence France-Presse/Thomson Reuters Foundation training programme on mainstreaming health in the media is successfully coming to an end.   For 15 weeks, 18 Libyan journalists, representing different media...

HRH Princess Muna Al-Hussein chairs nursing and midwifery forum

HRH Princess Muna Al-Hussein chairs nursing and midwifery forum

HRH Princess Muna Al-Hussein of Jordan, WHO Patron for Nursing and Midwifery in the Eastern Mediterranean Region20 May 2014 – The Sixth Global Forum for Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers successfully concluded in Geneva on 15 May, in the presence of Her Royal Highness (HRH) Princess Muna Al-Hussein of Jordan, WHO Patron for Nursing...

WHO reaffirms exclusively humanitarian purpose of public health programmes

WHO reaffirms exclusively humanitarian purpose of public health programmes

Cairo, 12 May 2014 – The World Health Organization (WHO) is deeply concerned by the circulation of an incorrect statement that was made during a press conference convened by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan on Thursday 8 May 2014, which wrongly and erroneously alleged the involvement of United Nations agencies in the “fake vaccination...

WHO concludes MERS-CoV mission in Saudi Arabia

WHO concludes MERS-CoV mission in Saudi Arabia

WHO is seeking to better understand the transmission patterns of the virus and control measures. Since mid-March 2014, over 100 people have tested positive for MERS in the Jeddah area and 31 of them have died. Photo: WHO/T. JasarevicCairo, Egypt 7 May, 2014 – A team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) completed a 5-day mission to...

High-level meeting moves health diplomacy agenda forward

High-level meeting moves health diplomacy agenda forward

The concept of health diplomacy refers to the negotiation process that shapes and manages the global policy environment for healthCairo, 6 May 2014 – The third regional seminar on global health diplomacy concluded Sunday in WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in Cairo, Egypt. More than 50 high-level officials and experts in...

WHO statement on the meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee concerning the international spread of wild poliovirus

WHO statement on the meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee concerning the international spread of wild poliovirus

5 May 2014 -The Emergency Committee convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations [IHR (2005)] was held on 28 April 2014 and on 29 April 2014. The Committee advised that the international spread of polio January-April 2014 (normally low-transmission season) constitutes an ‘extraordinary event’ and a public health...

WHO holds third regional seminar on health diplomacy in Cairo

WHO holds third regional seminar on health diplomacy in Cairo

29 April 2014 – The relationship between health and foreign policy interests has progressed in recent years as health moves beyond its purely technical realm to become a critical element in foreign policy, trade and security. The broad political, social and economic implications of health issues have brought more diplomats into the health arena and...

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