World Health Organization
Specialized agency of the United Nations
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| 2025 | World No Tobacco Day theme is 'Unmasking the Appeal'. |
| 2025 | The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to eliminate malaria in the region by this year. |
| 2025 | World Health Day theme focused on health beginnings and hope: 'Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures' |
| February 5 2025 | Argentinian president Javier Milei announced that Argentina would be withdrawing from the WHO. |
| January 20 2025 | U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order initiating the 12-month process of withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO. |
| January 2025 | WHO released a new guideline on 'Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes', strongly recommending reducing sodium intake to less than 2 g/day and conditionally recommending salt substitutes with potassium for adults, excluding pregnant women, children, and those with kidney issues. |
| 2024 | UN releases the Food Security and Nutrition Outlook for Europe and Central Asia, highlighting ongoing nutritional challenges in Tajikistan. |
| 2024 | Thailand has set a national goal to become malaria-free by this year. |
| 2024 | Disease Control Department reported a surge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among youth, highlighting ongoing public health concerns about sexual health and safety. |
| 2024 | World Health Day theme emphasized personal health rights: 'My health, my right' |
| 2024 | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation became the World Health Organization's major private contributor, providing funding for 10% of the organization's budget. |
| 2024 | WHO declared the spread of mpox in several African countries a public health emergency of international concern. |
| May 2024 | Organization changed its name from Foundation for a Smoke-Free World to Global Action to End Smoking. |
| May 31 2024 | World No Tobacco Day focused on the theme 'Protecting children from tobacco industry interference'. |
| 2023 | Syphilis cases increased 2.5 times compared to 2018, with a significant rise among adolescents, indicating increased unsafe sexual practices among youth. |
| 2023 | World Health Day theme promoted global health access: 'Health For All' |
| 2023 | PMI terminated the funding agreement, making a final payment of $140 million to the Foundation. |
| October 2023 | Cliff Douglas was appointed as the CEO and president of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. |
| May 31 2023 | World No Tobacco Day focused on the theme 'Grow food, not tobacco'. |
| May 5 2023 | The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared an end to the global COVID-19 emergency, marking a significant milestone in the international response to the pandemic. |
| April 11 2023 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report highlighting the significant increase in syphilis rates, contrasting with early 2000s when only about 30,000 cases were recorded annually. |
| January 31 2023 | Research conducted by FSFW was published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, focusing on tobacco use patterns during the pandemic, which was eventually cited in more than 6,700 papers. |
| 2022 | Nutrition survey reveals critical childhood health statistics: 13.1% of children under five suffer from stunting, 9.9% from wasting, and childhood overweight rates have dramatically increased to 21%. |
| 2022 | A WHO poll revealed that stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic caused up to 40% of health personnel to consider quitting their employment. |
| 2022 | EU member states decided to expand cancer screening focus to include prostate, lung, and gastric cancer, broadening the previous screening program. |
| 2022 | World Health Day theme focused on planetary health: 'Our planet, our health' |
| 2022 | World Health Assembly adopted recommendations from the Sustainable Financing Working Group, including raising compulsory member dues to 50% of WHO's 2022–2023 base budget by the end of the 2020s. |
| 2022 | Introduction of ICD-11, which attempts to integrate traditional medicine classifications with evidence-based medicine classifications. |
| 2022 | The WHO suggested the formation of a Global Health Emergency Council and recommended revision of the International Health Regulations. |
| December 2022 | EU health ministers approved Council conclusions on vaccination, focusing on fighting vaccine reluctance and preparing for future public health challenges through EU cooperation. |
| October 4 2022 | The Agricultural Transformation Initiative (ATI), a subsidiary of FSFW, supported fifteen Malawi-based postgraduate scholars, who shared their studies at North Carolina State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences International Programs. |
| September 28 2022 | The second edition of the Tobacco Transformation Index was released at the Global Tobacco & Nicotine Forum (GTNF), detailing research into efforts by the world's 15 largest tobacco companies to reduce product harm. |
| May 31 2022 | World No Tobacco Day focused on the theme 'Tobacco: Threat to our environment'. |
| May 24 2022 | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus re-appointed for a second term as Director-General of the World Health Organization. |
| 2021 | Significant increase in wildfire coverage in California, highlighting the growing impact of climate change on regional health and environmental conditions. |
| 2021 | Syphilis rates increased by about 30 percent compared to 2020, reaching levels not seen since the 1950s. |
| 2021 | World Health Day theme emphasized health equity: 'Building a Fairer and Healthier World for Everyone' |
| 2021 | WHO Executive Board formed a Working Group on Sustainable Financing to rethink the organization's funding strategy and present recommendations. |
| 2021 | Norwegian lawmakers nominated the WHO and COVAX for the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in providing COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries. |
| December 2021 | The World Health Assembly held its second special session and agreed to begin negotiations for drafting an international pandemic preparedness and response treaty, aimed at improving global health governance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| December 2021 | Virgin Atlantic, Pacific Asia Travel Association, Collinson, and Priority Pass form the Global Travel Sector Vaccine Coalition to fundraise for the 'Go Give One' campaign. |
| December 23 2021 | WHO officially confirmed that COVID-19 is an airborne transmission disease. |
| December 22 2021 | WHO issued an update clarifying that COVID-19 disease was low in children and adolescents, and that vaccination in those age groups was not recommended, to preserve valuable resources for populations most at risk. |
| November 2021 | WHO member states agreed to launch negotiations for a pandemic treaty during a special session of the World Health Assembly, aiming to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. The treaty's first official meeting was scheduled for March 2022, with a draft agreement targeted for finalization by May 2024 for consideration at the 77th World Health Assembly. |
| October 14 2021 | WHO nominated 26 experts to join the Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), with Michael Ryan stating this task force could be the 'last chance to understand the origins' of COVID-19. |
| July 2021 | The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a second phase of research to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 virus, seeking to further understand the initial emergence and transmission of the pandemic. |
| May 31 2021 | World No Tobacco Day theme was 'Commit to quit'. |
| May 7 2021 | The World Health Organization (WHO) authorized the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine for emergency use, expanding available COVID-19 vaccine options during the global pandemic. |
| April 2021 | WHO launched the 'Go Give One' campaign, encouraging individual donors to contribute to COVAX, the global COVID-19 vaccine distribution initiative. |
| April 2021 | Investigative journalists from Le Monde, The Investigative Desk, Follow the Money, and Knack published an investigation suggesting the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World is a lobbying tool for Philip Morris International to circumvent the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. |
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