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13 May 2015 / GENEVA – 2015 is the final year for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – goals set by governments in 1990 to guide global efforts to end poverty. This year’s World Health Statistics – published today by the World Health Organization (WHO) – assesses progress towards the health-related goals in each of the 194 countries for which data are...

Suite à l’évaluation de cas publiés de myopathies nécrosantes immuno-médiée chez des patients traités par statines, le Comité pour l’Evaluation des Risques en matière de Pharmacovigilance (PRAC) de l’Agence européenne des médicaments (EMA) recommande de renforcer les informations de sécurité de toutes les spécialités à base d’atorvastatine, fluvastatine,...

Le Groupe de coordination des procédures de reconnaissance mutuelle et décentralisées (CMDh) s’est réuni du 20 au 22 avril 2015 à Londres. Le CMDh est chargé d’examiner toute question relative à une autorisation de mise sur le marché, à la pharmacovigilance ou aux modifications des médicaments autorisés selon la procédure de reconnaissance mutuelle ou la procédure...

Today, 9 May 2015, WHO declares Liberia free of Ebola virus transmission. Forty-two days have passed since the last laboratory-confirmed case was buried on 28 March. The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over.

Interruption of transmission is a monumental achievement for a country that reported the highest number of deaths in the largest, longest, and most complex outbreak...

Dr Margaret Chan
Director-General of the World Health Organization

Opening remarks at a WHO Ebola research and development forum
11 May 2015

Distinguished scientists, representatives of industry, colleagues in public health, ladies and gentlemen,

Good morning and a warm welcome to this high-level meeting. I thank you for your time and expertise.

The Ebola R&D effort has mobilised...

Liberia conducts first polio, measles immunizations since Ebola outbreak.

MONROVIA, May 8 – A week-long campaign to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against polio and measles kicks off today in Liberia, led by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and supported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health...

Geneva, 8 May 2015 – The World Health Organization (WHO) today published the new edition of its Model List of  Essential Medicines) which includes ground-breaking new treatments for hepatitis C, a variety of cancers (including breast cancer and leukaemia) and multi-drug resistant  tuberculosis (TB), among others.  The move opens the way to improve  access to innovative medicines that...

8 May 2015 ǀ GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) today called on scientists, national authorities and the media to follow best practices in naming new human infectious diseases to minimize unnecessary negative effects on nations, economies and people.

“In recent years, several new human infectious diseases have emerged. The use of names such as ‘swine flu’ and ‘Middle...

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