News

News releases

• World Health Assembly opens to discuss major health issues
  20 May 2013 -- WHO's Health Assembly, the world's largest health policy-making body, opened its Sixty-sixth Session today in Geneva with around 3000 participants from around the world.
• Yellow fever vaccination booster not needed
  17 May 2013 -- The yellow fever ‘booster’ vaccination given ten years after the initial vaccination is not necessary, according to WHO.

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Statements

• WHO Press Statement Related to the Novel Coronavirus Situation
  12 May 2013
• Appeal by heads of leading UN humanitarian agencies for the people of the Syrian Arab Republic
  15 April 2013

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Notes for the media

• 2.4 billion people will lack improved sanitation in 2015
  13 May 2013
• More than 270 000 pedestrians killed on roads each year
  2 May 2013

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