Alert: What is the World Health Organization and why does it matter?

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Alert 21 January 2025

What is the World Health Organization and why does it matter? When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative. Doctors, scientists, presidents and prime ministers urgently convened the International Sanitary Conference in Paris in 1851, a precursor to what is now the largest of its kind: the World Health Organization, known as WHO. Read more

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