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• WHO issues its first hepatitis C treatment guidelines
  9 April 2014 -- WHO has issued its first guidance for the treatment of hepatitis C, a chronic infection that affects an estimated 130 million to 150 million people and results in 350 000 to 500 000 deaths a year.
• World Health Day 2014: Preventing vector-borne diseases
  2 April 2014 -- More than half the world’s population is at risk from diseases such as malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, schistosomiasis, and yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes, flies, ticks, water snails and other vectors. Every year, more than 1 billion people are infected and more than 1 million die from vector-borne diseases. This World Health Day – 7 April – WHO is highlighting the serious and increasing threat of vector-borne diseases, with the slogan “Small bite, big threat”.
• 7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution
  25 March 2014 -- In new estimates released today, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died - one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Reducing air pollution could save millions of lives.

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Features

Providing health care to Ebola patients in Conakry

WHO supplies arrive in Guinea to support the Ebola outbreak response

Down to zero: Nigeria stops guinea-worm disease in its tracks

Nepal stays vigilant to prevent polio’s return

Indonesia: Improving health services during emergencies

Clean household energy can save people’s lives

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