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Nursing Now

Watch the launch event of the new Nursing Now global campaign, which aims to empower and support nurses in meeting 21st century health challenges.

Director-General

"I envision a world in which everyone can live healthy, productive lives, regardless of who they are or where they live."

• Dr Tedros, WHO Director-General
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Infographics

Intrapartum care

All women have a right to a positive childbirth experience. Every birth is unique.

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Videos

Responding to a Polio Outbreak

Anytime a child is paralyzed by polio in any country,WHO and its partners move fast to stop the outbreak.

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Stories from countries

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• From Trauma to Recovery: Addressing Emergency Care in Afghanistan
  17 April 2018
• Belize steps up to prioritize the health challenges faced by its youth
  11 April 2018
• Healing the mental scars of violence in northeastern Nigeria
  9 April 2018

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Fact files, online Q&As;

Questions and answers

• Questions and answers on immunization and vaccine safety
  Updated March 2017
• Does polio still exist? Is it curable?
  Updated March 2018
• Typhoid fever
  January 2018

Fact files

• Measles
  Updated March 2018
• Immunization
  Updated March 2018
• Patient safety
  Updated March 2018

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Fact sheets

• Buruli ulcer
  Updated April 2018
• Onchocerciasis
  Updated April 2018
• Hepatitis C
  Updated April 2018
• Immunization coverage
  Updated April 2018
• Mental disorders
  Updated April 2018
• Schizophrenia
  Updated April 2018
• Malaria
  Updated April 2018
• Depression
  Updated March 2018

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Photos

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Maps

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• Yellow fever oubreak
• MERS-CoV maps and epicurves
• Air pollution: Interactive global map
• Ebola virus disease outbreak
• Maps by health topics: Global health observatory

Events calendar

• World Malaria Day, 25 April 2018
• World Immunization Week, 24-30 April 2018
  24-30 April 2018
• Walk the Talk: The Health for All Challenge
  20 May 2018
• World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2018

• All WHO meetings, consultations
• WHO campaigns

Commentaries

Commentaries bring the view of WHO’s leadership on current public health issues

• The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis: building a tuberculosis-free world
  Eric Goosby, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Tuberculosis
  Dean Jamison, University of California
  Soumya Swaminathan, World Health Organization
  Michael Reid, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
  Elizabeth Zuccala, The Lancet
• Health must be the number one priority for urban planners
  Dr Maria Neira, WHO Director for the Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health
• A “good birth” goes beyond having a healthy baby
  Dr Princess Nothemba Simelela, WHO Assistant Director-General for Family, Women, Children and Adolescents

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