Ms. Francesca Boldrini, Director, Global Health Initiative, World Economic Forum, Cologny, Switzerland

The World Health Organization has begun a program known as the Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) in order to reduce rates of consumption in the developing world.

WHO regional offices and WHO collaborating centres

The Global Network Initiative has been launched.

The study, which covers physical, sexual and psychological violence against children, is a joint initiative directly supported by the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, UNICEF and WHO.

A prominent new public outreach initiative launched during 2004 was the WHO Bridges magazine, conceived and produced jointly by Israeli and Palestinian health professionals.

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Iran Ali Hashemi, Pirooz Hosseini, Mahmoud Barimani, Seyed

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

International Labour Organization

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World Health Organization. World Report on Violence and Health. Geneva WHO.

Expanding Coverage to Children The Santa Clara County Children s Health Initiative.

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Maturine Tari Director, Administration Planning, Department of Health

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International Maritime Organization (IMO)

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ICAA participated in various meetings of WHO, including sessions of the World Health Assembly (WHA), and the WHO Ministerial Conference on Young People and Alcohol (Stockholm, February 2001).

It became the first World Health Organization treaty adopted under article 19 of the WHO constitution.

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Dr. Guadalupe Verdjo, World Health Organization Pan American Health Organization

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As a medium for the contracting of sexually transmitted infections in an individual, the presence of an untreated STI can make that person up to 10 times more likely to get and to transmit HIV.

World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

WHO Expert Committee on Malaria.

The National Health Policy is based on the Primary Health Care Strategy flowing from the Bamako initiative.

A WHO collaborating centre is a national institution designated by the WHO Director General to form part of an international collaborative network carrying out activities in support of the mandate of WHO for international health work and its programme priorities.

It would follow the three ones principles and support and accelerate the 3 x 5 initiative led by WHO, especially actions to improve treatment for children and keep parents alive.

It's the Global Public Health Information Network.

WHO is the abbreviation for World Health Organization.

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WHO recently launched the 3x5 initiative to increase access to ART for 3 million HIV infected people in developing countries by the end of 2005.

But there has been no challenge to the strategy's recommendations from the global scientific or public health community.

The Global Health Initiative, for example, uses American taxpayer money to offset the gender related inequalities and disparities that disproportionately compromise the health of women and girls.

Japan will contribute 5 billion over the next five years to the Health and Development Initiative.

Likewise, the World Health Organization issued a major call to scale up development assistance for health.

Pan American Health Organization World Health Organization (PAHO WHO), Special Program for Health Analysis, Health Situation in the Americas Basic Indicators 2002 (maternal and infant mortality).

See World Health Organization, Fifty eighth World Health Assembly, Geneva, 16 25 May 2005, Resolutions and Decisions, Annex (WHA58 2005 REC 1).

20 See The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and Guidelines to Classification, 2004 (Geneva, World Health Organization, 2005).

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WHO recommendations include the following