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The WHO is created
The United Nations Conference in San Francisco unanimously approves
the establishment of a new, autonomous international health organization. -
The International Health Conference in New York approves theConstitution of the World Health Organization in July.
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The epidemiological information service is established.
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The World Health Organization Constitution comes into force
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The International Classification of Disease is published.
The International Classification of Disease - the global standard to report
and categorize diseases, health-related conditions and external causes of
disease and injury - is published -
Dr Brock Chisholm is elected as the first Director-General.
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The World Health Assembly establishes World Health Day to take placeannually on 7 April.
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Mass TB immunization with the bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine isunder way to protect children from tuberculosis
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The global yaws control programme is launched in partnership withUNICEF.
The programme succeeded in treating 300 million people in 50
countries, reducing global levels of the disease by more than 95%. -
Dr Marcolino Gomes Candau is elected as the second Director Generalof the World Health Organization.
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Malaria Eradication Program Was Launched
Its objective was
modified in 1969. Subsequently, most of the malaria eradication
programmes were turned into national malaria control programmes -
The smallpox eradication program was launched
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The oral polio vaccine is licensed.
This vaccine was proven to stop
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The first report on diabetes mellitus is issued.
By 2000, 171 million people
worldwide carried the disease, a number likely to increase to at least 366
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer is established
The International Agency for Research on Cancer is established to
coordinate and conduct both epidemiological and laboratory research into
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The new headquarters building of the World Health Organization inGeneva, Switzerland is inaugurated
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The International Sanitary Regulations are renamed theInternational Health Regulations
The International Sanitary Regulations, endorsed in 1951, are renamed the
International Health Regulations, specifically covering cholera, plague,
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Dr AlbertSabin, donates the rights to the vaccine to the World Health Organization
To ensure the oral polio vaccine’s universal use, its inventor Dr Albert
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Dr Halfdan T. Mahler of Denmark is elected as the third Director-General
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The expanded programme on immunization is launched
The expanded programme on immunization is launched. Immunization
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The Onchocerciasis Control Programme is launched in collaboration with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization.
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The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases isestablished
The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases is
established to help coordinate, support and influence global efforts to
combat neglected infectious diseases that disproportionately affect poor
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The Ebola virus is first identified in the Western Equatorial province ofSudan and in Zaire .
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The World Health Assembly adopts a resolution on Disability Preventionand Rehabilitation
The World Health Assembly adopts a resolution on Disability Prevention
and Rehabilitation calling for an integration of rehabilitation into primary
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The first essential medicines list is published
Today, the list contains 340
medicines that address most global priority conditions, including malaria,
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, reproductive health and, increasingly, chronic
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The International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata (in theformer Soviet Union) sets the historic goal of "Health for all".
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A global commission certifies the worldwide eradication of smallpox.
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The Global Programme on AIDS is created to develop and coordinate aglobal strategy to fight the disease.
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Dr Hiroshi Nakajima of Japan is elected as the fourth Director-General
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The World Health Assembly endorses a resolution on non-discriminationagainst people living with AIDS.
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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is established in collaboration withRotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventionand UNICEF.
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The World Health Assembly adopts a resolution to eliminate leprosy
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The International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication is established
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The DOTS strategy for TB control is launched
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UNAIDS is created with six founding partner agencies.
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Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway is elected as the fifth DirectorGeneral
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The Stop TB Partnership is launched, hosted by WHO
The Stop TB Partnership is launched, hosted by WHO. It now includes
over 500 partners working to reduce the global burden of TB by increasing
access to treatment through DOTS programmes, and addressing challenges
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The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health is established to assessthe impact of health on development.
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The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is established
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189 Member States of the United Nations unanimously adopt aMillennium Declaration which results in the Millennium DevelopmentGoals
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The Measles Initiative is launched in partnership with the American RedCross, UNICEF, the United Nations Foundation and the US Centres forDisease Control and Prevention.
As of October 2007, overall global
measles deaths have fallen by 68%. -
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is created todramatically increase
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Dr LEE Jong-wook of the Republic of Korea is elected as the sixthDirector-General of the World Health Organization
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is first recognized and thencontrolled
WHO coordinated the international investigation with the
Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network and worked closely with health authorities in the affected countries
