More important topics of 2009, according to the WHO

This health blog has alluded, in several opportunities, to the most important topics of 2009, according to the balance of end of year of the World Organization of the Health. Next, and to be closing this topic, a journalistic note will be realized on other events that shape the memory made by the WHO.

Although the appearance of the Flu TO H1N1 monopolized in 2009 all the attention of the international community, it was not the only important topic happened during the last year. And this is seen clearly on having consulted the balance that the WHO realized and that includes twelve facts and achievements most emphasized of 2009.

In this occasion, there will be mentioned the remaining topics that shape this memory and that, on having known about the international sanitary organism, also were the most important of last twelve months.

For example, the World Organization of the Health emphasized the presentation of the interesting report “The women and the health: the today information, the tomorrow agenda”; as this way also the fact that more and more persons positive VIH (4 million patients, according to information obtained at the end of 2008) are receiving treatment antirretrovírico, he published the web site of the WHO.

It is important to emphasize that a few months ago the same blog alluded to the report “Risks for the world health”, that expresses that the expectation of life of the persons might increase across the control of certain factors of risk for the health. This topic also is part of the balance 2009 of the WHO, under the title “The reduction of the world sanitary risks prepares premature deaths”.

Other of the facts that integrate this memory is the presentation of the “World Report on the Malaria 2009”. Since one has already reported in this blog, the struggle against the malaria or malaria can help to fulfill the Targets of Development of the Millenium, he informed the web of the international organism.

Finally, it is not necessary to allow mentioning the topic related to the production of a new vaccine against the polio. As tells the WHO, in his balance 2009, Afghanistan realized an immunization campaign antipoliomielítica.

To know the finished balance of the international sanitary organism, only it is enough to enter to his official web site.

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