News

News releases

• 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.
• WHO statistics show narrowing health gap between countries with best and worst health status
  15 May 2013 -- The world has made dramatic progress in improving health in the poorest countries and narrowing the gaps between countries with the best and worst health status in the past two decades, according to the World Health Statistics 2013.

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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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