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Breastfeeding: a winning goal for life
During World Breastfeeding Week, 1–7 August 2014, WHO and its partners underline the importance of sustaining and increasing the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding.
News
- WHO escalates response to Ebola outbreak
- New guidelines stress increasing key populations’ access to HIV services
- Country profiles on noncommunicable diseases published
- Tackling air pollution, climate change and chemicals: European environmental priorities to protect health
- Contributions invited to develop global action plan on antimicrobial resistance
Data and Evidence
Regional Committee
64th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
15–18 September 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark
Countries
Public health lab professionals in Turkmenistan trained in biosafety and biosecurity
Full list of countries
Publications
Bibione. Breathe by the sea. The story of a smoke-free beach in ItalyThis publication supports the implementation of the WHO Health 2020 policy. It documents a local initiative for a smoke-free beach employing whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to address a common public health challenge: smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke in public settings.
Prisons and healthThis book outlines important suggestions by international experts to improve the health of people in prison and to reduce the risks posed by imprisonment to both health and society.
Emergencies and outbreaks
- Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
- Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9)
- Flooding in the Balkans
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Multimedia
Video - mass gatherings
