World Health Organization (WHO)

World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized UN agency acting as a coordinator and researcher for public health worldwide. Founded April 7, 1948 and based in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency will be charged on the strength and resources of its predecessor, the Organization, through the League of Nations agency. WHO Constitution states that its mission is to make all the peoples of the highest attainable standard of health. "The main task of combating the disease, especially key infectious diseases, and promoting the general health of people everywhere. Examples of his work is the European Social Fund of smallpox. In 1979, said the disease was eradicated - the first time in the history of the disease is completely eliminated from the model of human intention. WHO has almost reached the development of vaccines for malaria and schistosomiasis and aims to eradicate polio next year. The organization adopted the first official world of HIV / AIDS debate Zimbabwe October 3, 2006, which is the international standard . 

WHO Member States and funded by donors. In the past year, according to which the work of the partnership is currently about 80 such cooperation with NGOs and the pharmaceutical industry and institutions such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller. Voluntary contributions from the WHO for national and local governments, foundations, NGOs, UN and other organizations, the private sector (including pharmaceutical companies) is now higher than the contributions (premiums) and in 193 countries.

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