WHO & Regional Offices [to 18 June 2016]

Highlights
Launch of the 2016 Global Nutrition Report
June 2016 –The Global Nutrition Report examines the world’s nutrition and the efforts to improve it. It assesses progress in meeting Global Nutrition Targets established by the World Health Assembly, and provides current information from global, regional and country perspectives. WHO is a Global Nutrition Report Partner.

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Disease Outbreak News (DONs)
:: Chikungunya – United States of America 14 June 2016
:: Yellow fever – Angola 14 June 2016
:: Lassa Fever – Benin 13 June 2016

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:: WHO Regional Offices
Selected Press Releases, Announcements
WHO African Region AFRO
:: Yellow fever global vaccine stockpile in emergencies – 17 June 2016
:: WHO African Region Programme Subcommittee meeting begins in Brazzaville, Congo – 14 June 2016

WHO Region of the Americas PAHO
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WHO South-East Asia Region SEARO
:: WHO South-East Asia Region continues to be polio-free 18 June 2016

WHO European Region EURO
:: Celebrating 20 years of the Ljubljana Charter 16-06-2016
:: Slovenia’s substantial and sustained health gains revealed in new reports 16-06-2016
:: Conclusions of the third meeting of the Emergency Committee regarding microcephaly, other neurological disorders and Zika virus 15-06-2016
:: Blood connects us all – blood donation text message service in Sweden 14-06-2016

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region EMRO
:: WHO expresses concern over disease outbreaks in its response to Fallujah crisis
Baghdad, 16 June 2016: WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr Ala Alwan arrived in Baghdad yesterday to review firsthand WHO’s response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Fallujah city, where more than 42,000 Iraqis have been displaced since the beginning of the military operations in the city in May 2016. Tens of thousands of besieged and displaced men, women, children and older people face major health risks as they lack adequate access to health services.
:: Emergency Committee on Zika virus and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations 14 June 2016
::: WHO reaches more people in need with lifesaving treatments in Duma 13 June 2016

WHO Western Pacific Region
:: Tenofovir reduces mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B: new study
GENEVA, 16 JUNE 2016 – New study findings published today confirm that antiviral therapy with tenofovir in late pregnancy can result in a 3-fold reduction in mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of hepatitis B virus (HBV), when used in combination with immunoglobulin and HBV vaccine at birth…