News

News releases

• Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: Joint Kingdom of Saudi Arabia/WHO mission
  10 June 2013 -- Between 4 and 9 June 2013, a joint mission of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the World Health Organization (WHO) met in Riyadh to assess the situation due to a new coronavirus in the Kingdom. This virus has recently been named the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). It is a new, emerging virus that is distantly related to the virus that caused SARS.
• Ban tobacco advertising to protect young people
  29 May 2013 -- On World No Tobacco Day, 31 May, WHO is calling for countries to ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship to help reduce the number of tobacco users. Tobacco use kills nearly 6 million people every year.

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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

• WHO interim guidance on the use of bedaquiline to treat MDR-TB
  13 June 2013
• WHO: More voluntary blood donors needed
  12 June 2013

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