GenevaLunch » WHO http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Malaria cases down 25% but funding shortfall threats could slow progress http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/14/malaria-cases-down-25-but-funding-shortfall-threats-could-slow-progress/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/14/malaria-cases-down-25-but-funding-shortfall-threats-could-slow-progress/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:25:42 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64697 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Malaria cases worldwide fell by 25 percent in the past decade and by 33 percent worldwide thanks to better prevention but threatened shortfalls in funding from governments could slow the fight against the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. Its World malaria report 2011, published 13 December, shows malaria rates falling [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/14/malaria-cases-down-25-but-funding-shortfall-threats-could-slow-progress/feed/ 0 World Aids Day focuses on “Getting to Zero” by 2015 http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/01/world-aids-day-focuses-on-getting-to-zero-by-2015/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/01/world-aids-day-focuses-on-getting-to-zero-by-2015/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:20:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64314 GenevaLunch.com Landmarks get red lights as Aids Day Global prevention, treatment and funding at a turning point GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Red lights are shining today on several world landmarks, including the Empire State Building and Stock Exchange in New York and the Sydney Opera House in Australia, to mark World Aids Day. The day has been [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/01/world-aids-day-focuses-on-getting-to-zero-by-2015/feed/ 0 Swiss are salting away, but not money, just sodium http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/14/swiss-are-salting-away-but-not-money-just-sodium/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/14/swiss-are-salting-away-but-not-money-just-sodium/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:48:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63518 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss are known for their conservative approach to money, but one area where they are too liberal, it appears, is in adding sodium, or table salt, to their food. A study released Monday by the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) shows that people consume nearly double the amount of salt [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/14/swiss-are-salting-away-but-not-money-just-sodium/feed/ 0 WHO reforms voted in http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/05/who-reforms-voted-in/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/05/who-reforms-voted-in/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:55:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63234 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Health Organization, based in Geneva, late Friday 4 November, approved a number of resolutions to reform the health body at the most basic levels. The crucial question of how to improve funding was set aside for two months until the next general meeting of the executive board. The WHO, in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/05/who-reforms-voted-in/feed/ 0 WHO to consider reforms – false alarm over new staff cuts, moves http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/28/who-to-consider-reforms-false-alarm-over-new-staff-cuts-moves/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/28/who-to-consider-reforms-false-alarm-over-new-staff-cuts-moves/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:57:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62944 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Health Organization in Geneva confirmed Friday 28 October that staff cuts of some 300 posts, announced in May, will go ahead: 167 of these are fixed posts and the rest mainly short-term contracts at this point. But more job cuts and rumours spread by Swiss-based media of staff being shifted [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/28/who-to-consider-reforms-false-alarm-over-new-staff-cuts-moves/feed/ 0 TB numbers down for first time ever http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/12/tb-numbers-down-for-first-time-ever/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/12/tb-numbers-down-for-first-time-ever/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62423 GenevaLunch.com Underfunding is a growing concern, though, says WHO GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Sustained efforts by a number of large countries are responsible for much of the dramatic improvement in the global picture for tuberculosis, the World Health Organization said late Tuesday 11 October. China has halved the prevalence of the disease and seen the number of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/12/tb-numbers-down-for-first-time-ever/feed/ 0 WHO says too little money goes to mental health prevention http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/who-says-too-little-money-goes-to-mental-health-prevention/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/who-says-too-little-money-goes-to-mental-health-prevention/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:17:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62293 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Money invested in mental health comes to a global average of only $3 per capita, according to the World Health Organization, and in some developing countries it is as low as $.25, with most funds spent on long-term hospitalization. Only two percent of all health resources are invested in mental health services [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/who-says-too-little-money-goes-to-mental-health-prevention/feed/ 1 Milan sends car-free citizens to museums, pools http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/milan-sends-car-free-citizens-to-museums-pools/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/milan-sends-car-free-citizens-to-museums-pools/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:31:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62287 GenevaLunch.com MILAN, ITALY – Sunday 9 October was a car-free day in Milan, designed to get the pollution level, one of Europe’s highest, down to legally acceptable levels. Seventy firefighters and extra police officers ensured that from 08:00 to 18:00 virtually no cars were driven in the city. The city’s safety commissioner said they were also [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/milan-sends-car-free-citizens-to-museums-pools/feed/ 0 HUG’s transport workers on strike; hospital wins prison care award http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/06/hugs-transport-workers-on-strike-hospital-wins-prison-care-award/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/06/hugs-transport-workers-on-strike-hospital-wins-prison-care-award/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:55:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62164 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Hug university hospitals in Geneva were handed a surprise strike Thursday 6 October by the workers who transport patients and material, and the union for which they work and hospital officials immediately met. The hospital says in a statement issued during the morning that its first preoccupation is the patients, and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/06/hugs-transport-workers-on-strike-hospital-wins-prison-care-award/feed/ 0 Sprouts the E.coli cause: German officials confirm it http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/10/sprouts-the-e-coli-cause-german-officials-confirm-it/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/10/sprouts-the-e-coli-cause-german-officials-confirm-it/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:55:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58700 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – “It’s the bean sprouts”, the source of the E. coli outbreak in Germany, Reinhard Burger, Germany’s head of infectious diseases programme, said Friday morning 10 June. The actual sprouts that are behind what the WHO labels the “the unusual enteroaggregative verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (EAggEC VTEC) O104:H4 bacterium” have not yet been pinpointed. [...]

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