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  1. 42 minutes ago

    : Around 1 billion people have no access to basic , are forced to defecate in open spaces

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  2. 2 hours ago

    : The world has begun to reverse spread of . New infections reported in 2001: 3.4 million people 2013: 2.1 million people

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  3. 3 hours ago

    : Top killers of children aged less than 5: -Preterm birth complications -Pneumonia -Birth asphyxia -Diarrhoea

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  4. 3 hours ago

    : Since 1990 child deaths have almost halved. Child deaths per 1000 live births: 1990: 90 2013: 46

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  6. 4 hours ago

    In , 740 million non-smokers –including 182 million children– are exposed to second-hand smoke at least once a day in a typical week

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  9. 6 hours ago

    Dr Chan: Watch trade agreements that make it harder for lower-priced generic medicines of good quality to enter the market

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  10. 6 hours ago

    Dr Chan: Do everything you can to get governments to introduce reforms that move health systems closer to universal coverage

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  11. 7 hours ago

    Dr Chan: Universal Health Coverage transforms livelihoods as well as lives, and works as a poverty-reduction strategy

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  12. 7 hours ago

    Dr Chan: The globalized marketing of unhealthy products respects no boundaries

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  13. 7 hours ago

    Dr Chan: Chronic noncommunicable diseases have overtaken infectious diseases as the world’s biggest killers

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  14. 7 hours ago

    Dr Chan: [Since 2000] deaths from declined by 60%. An estimated 6.2 million lives were saved

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  15. 7 hours ago

    Dr Chan: Since t/ start of this century an estimated 37 million lives were saved by effective diagnosis & treatment of

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  16. 7 hours ago

    Dr Chan: reached a tipping point in 2014, when people newly receiving antiretroviral therapy surpassed the number of new infections

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  17. 8 hours ago

    Dr Chan: Maternal and child mortality fell at the fastest rate in history. Each day, 17,000 fewer children die than in 1990

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  18. 8 hours ago

    Dr Chan: Health challenges are far more complex than they were 15 years ago. Their solutions are more political than biomedical

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  19. 8 hours ago

    Dr Chan: WHO collaboration with has been especially strong and systematic in women’s, children’s & adolescents’ health

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  20. 8 hours ago

    WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan addressed the ’s Assembly

    5:14 a.m. - 20 Oct 2015 · Details
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