World Health Organization
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Habitat for Humanity Notes Importance of World Toilet Day
New York, N.Y. The jokes are too easy, the ramifications too deadly. People are dying all over the world from a lack of proper sanitation and hygiene – and access to basi…
WHO Urges Drug Therapy for All HIV+ Patients
Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization has revised its HIV guidelines to recommend that anyone who tests positive for the virus be given antiretroviral drugs…
World Health Organization Report Links Meat to Cancer
New York, N.Y. The cancer research arm of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) has determined that the consumption of processed meats like hotdogs, ham, sausages and mea…
Making Strides Toward Ensuring the Right to Clean Water
New York, N.Y. Like most Americans, I take easy access to clean drinking water for granted. “But it’s a fundamental human right,” Edward Buckley is quick to point out. “W…
Youth Leader on Philanthropy - Giving Back, Launching Global Fund
By Isaac Kassin, Edited by Jim Luce New York, NY. It is very difficult to succeed in our world today. Standards are significantly higher, and for one to be self-satisfied…
Chatting with UNICEF's Director Ann Veneman
New York, N.Y. I met UNICEF 's executive director Ann M. Veneman recently at Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden's World Childhood Foundation luncheon at the United Nation…
Helping Women: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Developing World
New York, N.Y. Ana Langer, M.D., spoke recently at a Smith Barney seminar on health in the developing world. She was talking about the problem of obstetric fistula, of wh…
Itzhak Perlman to Perform at Lincoln Center to Help Rotary Eradicate Polio
New York, N.Y. "Polio is only a plane ride away." So began my sobering interview with Carol Pandak, Manager of PolioPlus for Rotary International about polio, a crippling…