Q&A: Infectious diseases
- Do all mosquitoes transmit malaria?
- What is the best treatment against malaria? Why combine drugs?
- How big a problem is measles? What is being done to prevent it?
- What is TB? How does it spread?
- How do you get hepatitis B? How can I protect myself?
- What are the International Health Regulations?
- Does polio still exist? Is it curable?
- What is vaccine-derived polio?
- What is dengue and how is it treated?
- Avian influenza: am I at risk?
- What is being done about yellow fever? Should children be vaccinated?
Events
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World Blood Donor Day
14 June 2012 -
Rio+20 – United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
20–22 June 2012 -
The XIXth International AIDS Conference
22–27 July 2012
Corporate resources
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The world health report
Report on global public health and key statistics -
World health statistics report
WHO's annual compilation of data from its Member States -
International travel and health
Publication on travel risks, precautions and vaccination requirements -
International Health Regulations (IHR)
Global rules to enhance national, regional and global public health security