WHO & Regionals [to 10 October 2015]

WHO Welcomes Nobel Prize for Medicine Awards for Discoveries of Tropical Disease Drugs
October 2015 — WHO welcomes the decision to award the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of drugs that have radically improved treatment for tropical diseases such as Malaria, onchocerciasis (River Blindness), and lymphatic filariasis.

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The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) 9 October 2015, vol. 90, 41 (pp. 545–560) includes:
545 Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2016 southern hemisphere influenza season
559 Monthly report on dracunculiasis cases, January-July 2015

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World Mental Health Day 2015
Dignity in mental health

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:: WHO Regional Offices
WHO African Region AFRO
:: Dr Moeti – Health is a reliable measure of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
Cape Town, 6 October 2015 – The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti has underscored the critical role of health in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Addressing delegates at the Second Ministerial Forum on China-Africa Health Development, in Cape Town, South Africa, Dr Moeti observed that although health is a desirable outcome of the SDGs in its own right and an input into other goals, it is a reliable measure of sustainable development. She noted that health can no longer be considered as a consuming sector…

WHO Region of the Americas PAHO
:: Breast cancer awareness, screening and treatment save lives, PAHO experts say (10/06/2015)

WHO South-East Asia Region SEARO
:: Dignity in mental health – 10 October 2015
:: Ensure eye care for all – 08 October 2015

WHO European Region EURO
:: UNICEF and WHO ready to support immediate polio vaccination campaign in Ukraine 09-10-2015
:: Food, water and health care: WHO reviews basic services for refugees crossing Serbia 09-10-2015
:: New WHO guidelines on antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection 07-10-2015
:: Medical professionals trained in refugee and migrant health in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 05-10-2015

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region EMRO
:: 62nd session of the WHO Regional Committee concludes in Kuwait
9 October 2015 – The WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean concluded its 62nd session on 8 October with the adoption of important resolutions and decisions to advance the health agenda in the Region. Resolutions outline the joint work expected from Member States and WHO in the areas of health security, prevention and control of emerging infections, prevention of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer, medical education, mental health, and assessment and monitoring of the implementation of the IHR 2005, among others.
:: Scaling up response to the cholera outbreak in Iraq – 8 October 2015
:: WHO delivers additional medical supplies to Yemen – 8 October 2015

WHO Western Pacific Region
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