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UPDATED:Thu Oct 25 11:41:14 2001

Fact Sheets in alphabetical order

 

   
Backgrounder: HIV, TB and Malaria - 3 Major Infectious Disease Threats (WHO/Bg/01) Bg/01
Forty Litres of Water a Day Feature205
Fear in the Camps Feature204
Water - Too Much or Too Little- The Foremost Cause of Natural Disasters Feature203
Mango tree investigators fight sleeping sickness Feature202
Out of the Mouths of Babes Feature201
More Than Just a Paint Job Feature200
The Wife of a Bicycle Mechanic (The Global Campaign against Epilepsy) Feature199
New Politicians, Old Vulnerabilities: Serbia's Health Crisis Feature198
Olympic Long Distance Runners Support Roll Back Malaria Feature197
Guinea: Influxes of refugees put health 
workers on high alert		 Feature196
First Airport in China Passes WHO Health Inspection with Flying Colours Feature195
Ethiopians in the Grip of "Green Hunger" Feature194
Evil Eye and Stagnant Waters (Buruli) feature 193
African Trypanosomiasis or Sleeping Sickness fact259
Ageing: A Public Health Challenge fact135
Air Pollution fact187
Anthrax fact264
Antimicrobial Resistance fact194
Arsenic in Drinking Water fact210
Blindness 1: General Information fact142
Blindness 2: Major Causes Worldwide fact143
Blindness 3: Other Leading Causes Worldwide fact144
Blindness 4: Socioeconomic Aspects fact145
Blindness 5: Projections into the Next Century fact146
Blindness 6: WHO's Response fact147
Blindness 7: History of Blindness Prevention fact148
Blindness: Vision 2020 - The Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness fact213
Blindness: Vision 2020 - Control of Major
Blinding Diseases and Disorders		 fact214
Blindness: Vision 2020 - 
Human Resource Development		 fact215
Blindness: Vision 2020 - 
Infrastructure and Appropriate Technology		 fact216
Blindness in the Western Pacific fact229
Blindness as a Public Health Problem in China fact230
Bottled Drinking Water fact256
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) fact113
Bronchial Asthma fact206
Brucellosis fact173
Buruli Ulcer fact199
Evil Eye and Stagnant Waters (Buruli) feat193
Campylobacter fact255
Childhood Diseases in Africa fact109
Children: Abuse and Neglect fact150
Children: Integrated Management of the Sick Child fact96
Children: Malnutrition fact119
Children: Reducing Mortality fact178
Children: Substance Abuse among fact151
Cholera fact107
Cities and Emerging or Re-emerging Diseases fact122
Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, Variant (vCJD) fact180
Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever fact208
CVI Strategic Plan - Highlights fact189
Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever fact117
Depleted Uranium fact257
Diabetes mellitus fact138
Diabetes mellitus: its costs fact236
Dioxins and their effects on human health fact225
Diphtheria fact89
Dracunculiasis Eradication fact98
Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever fact103
El Niño and its health impact fact192
Epidemic Dysentery fact108
Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health -
EMF Project 		fact181
Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health
- Properties and Effects 		fact182
Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health
- Effects of Radiofrequency Fields 		fact183
Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health
- Extremely Low Frequency		 fact205
Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health
- Extremely Low Frequency Fields and Cancer		 fact263
Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health 
- Mobile Telephone 		fact193
Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health
- Public Perception of EMF Risk 		fact184
Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health
- Radars and human health		 fact226
Emergency and Humanitarian Action fact90
Enteroviruses - non polio fact174
Epilepsy: Aetiogy, Epidemiology and Prognosis fact165
Epilepsy: Social Consequences
and Economic Aspects 		fact166
Epilepsy: Scientific and Medical Advances fact167
Epilepsy: Historical Overview fact168
Escherichia Coli O157:H7 fact125
Essential Drugs, Tenth WHO Model List of fact198
Female Genital Mutilation fact241
Food Safety and Foodborne Illness fact237
Foodborne Diseases, Emerging fact124
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) fact169
Global Infectious Disease Surveillance fact200
Health Promotion: case studies fact172
Health Promotion: milestones fact171
Hepatitis B fact204
Hepatitis C fact164
Human genetics and noncommunicable disease fact209
HIV/AIDS: Antiretroviral Treatments fact163
HIV/AIDS and WHO fact120
Infectious Diseases, New and Emerging fact97
Influenza fact211
Influenza A- H5N1 fact188
Influenza Programme, WHO's fact212
Injection Safety: Background fact231
Injection Safety: Facts & Figures fact232
Injection Safety: A glossary fact233
Injection Safety: Questions & Answers fact234
International Programme of Chemical Safety fact87
Iodine Deficiency Disorders fact121
Laser Pointers and Human Health Risks fact202
Lassa Fever fact179
The Leishmaniases and Leishmania/
HIV Co-infections 		fact116
Leprosy fact101
Lymphatic Filariasis fact102
Malaria fact94
Malaria: Introducing the Medicines
for Malaria Venture
Meningococcal Meningitis fact105
Mental Health Problems: Strengthening
Community Health Services and Primary Care		 fact219
Mental Health Problems: Strengthening Mental
Health Promotion		 fact220
Mental Health Problems: The Newly Defined Burden fact217
Mental Health Problems: 
The Undefined and Hidden Burden		 fact218
Mental Health Resources in the World fact260
Monkeypox fact161
Nipah Virus Factsheet fact262
Noncommunicable Diseases fact106
Occupational and Community Noise fact258
Occupational Health fact84
Onchocerciasis - River Blindness fact95
Partnerships: how WHO works with the Public
and Private Sectors to Fight Infectious Diseases		 fact235
Poliomyelitis fact114
Protecting Children from Ultraviolet Radiation fact261
Rabies fact99
Rift Valley Fever fact207
Roll Back Malaria fact203
Salmonella fact139
School Health Education and Promotion fact92
Sexually Transmitted Diseases fact110
Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Young People fact186
Schistosomiasis fact115
Silicosis fact238
Solar Eclipses: Danger to Eyesight fact228
Solar Energy and Rural Health Care fact132
Solar Radiation and Human Health fact227
Global Solar UV Index fact133
Substance Use and Associated Health Problems fact127
Tobacco Dependence fact222
Tobacco - Governments should legislate and educate fact224
Tobacco - Health Facts fact221
Tobacco - Supporting the tobacco industry
is bad economics		 fact223
Traditional Medicine fact134
Triclabendazole: a New Drug to Combat Fascioliasis fact191
Tuberculosis fact104
Typhoid Fever fact149
Typhus fact162
Vegetation Fires fact254
Video Display Units (VDUs) and Human Health fact201
Violence against Women fact239
Wastes from Health-Care Activities fact253
World Health Organization fact126
Yellow Fever fact100
Mediterranean Zoonoses Control Programme fact185

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