Global Health

WHO Takes on Challenges, New and Old

Published in Blood Weekly, June 8th, 2000

The World Health Organization called May 20, 2000, for more concerted international action against AIDS, malaria, and smoking-related diseases, while also raising concerns on new issues like bioethics and cloning.

Closing its annual six-day conference at its Genev, Switzerland, headquarters, the WHO presented a long list of action needed to fight the world's most formidable health problems, including HIV, which has infected about 34 million people worldwide and threatens to reverse the social and economic developments Africa has made in the past 50 years. The 191-nation assembly said more must be done to improve access to drugs to treat HIV, AIDS, and related illnesses...

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