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• World Health Assembly, day 2: resolution on noncommunicable diseases approved
  24-05-2012
  A resolution on strengthening noncommunicable disease policies to promote active ageing was approved by countries on the second day of WHO’s global annual meeting.
• First day of World Health Assembly focuses on universal health-care coverage
  22-05-2012
  The Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly, WHO’s annual global meeting of ministers and senior health officials, opened yesterday. In her opening address, Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, emphasized the importance of universal coverage.
• Minister of Health of Ukraine signs agreement with WHO/Europe
  22-05-2012
  On 21 May 2012, Raisa Bogatyryova, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Health of Ukraine, and Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, signed a biennial collaborative agreement for 2012–2013.
• Health planning for large public events
  09-05-2012
  With thousands of people from many countries attending the UEFA European Football Championship (EURO 2012) and the Summer Olympics, WHO and its partners have developed health advice for these visitors, and support national authorities preparing for mass gatherings. Read more …
• Ukraine bans tobacco advertising and promotion
  21-03-2012
  The President of Ukraine last week signed a comprehensive tobacco advertising ban, taking a major step towards full compliance with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, to which it became Party in 2006.
• WHO/Europe strengthens national capacity in emergency preparedness
  05-03-2012
  Participants from eight countries in the WHO European Region took part in a workshop to train trainers to establish and develop national programmes to build capacity for risk reduction and the management of public health emergencies.
• 2012 UEFA European Football Championship: health advice
  24-02-2012
  The Championship is taking place in Poland and Ukraine from 8 June to 1 July 2012. With national authorities and partners, WHO/Europe has published a leaflet on the health steps to take before travelling, and key health information to remember when in the host countries.
• Children’s right to health in Ukraine: investing in the future
  21-10-2011
  With the Ministry of Health and international partners, WHO/Europe experts in child and adolescent health and development and vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization, and the WHO Country Office, Ukraine conducted an international workshop “The Right of a Child to Health” under Ukraine’s chairmanship in the Council of Europe within the framework of VII Ukrainian Congress of Pediatricians, on 12 October 2011 in Kyiv.
• WHO supports public health preparedness for EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine
  20-10-2011
  WHO/Europe is working closely with health authorities in Poland and Ukraine, co-hosts of the 14th Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) European Football Championship (EURO 2012), to strengthen their readiness for this mass gathering.
• No tobacco at EURO 2012
  20-10-2011
  The 14th Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) European Football Championship (EURO 2012) will be totally tobacco free. UEFA’s decision to ban tobacco from the world’s third largest sporting event sends a strong message to football fans everywhere, reaffirming the link between football and good health.
• Ukraine bans tobacco advertising
  27-09-2011
  Ukraine's parliament banned tobacco advertising on the 22nd of September.
• Looking “beyond the numbers” to save mothers’ lives in Ukraine
  23-09-2011
  On 13–16 September 2011, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine hosted a three-day technical workshop and one-day national conference to discuss and adopt new ways to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in the country.
• Ukraine scales up services for women with unwanted pregnancies
  07-06-2011
  Ukraine has developed and implemented new national standards for safe abortion care. This achievement in improving the quality of services for women with unwanted pregnancies involved implementing evidence-based recommendations on safe abortion in selected regions. This was achieved within phase I of the project on Comprehensive Care for Unwanted Pregnancies (CCUP). The results of the project so far were presented at the National Dissemination Workshop on May 25–26, 2011.
• Ukraine reports 14 cholera cases
  06-06-2011
  Ukraine has reported to WHO 14 laboratory confirmed cases of cholera between 30 May and 6 June 2011 from Mariupol on the Sea of Azov in Donetsk oblast. A local laboratory in Donetsk has confirmed Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1, biotype El Tor, serotype Ogawa as the causative agent in all cases.
• Fighting against the tide of HIV in Ukraine
  06-06-2011
  Photo story documenting personal accounts of people living with and fighting against HIV in Ukraine.
• Third issue of WHY newsletter highlights water and sanitation as crucial for life
  30-05-2011
• Review of the national tuberculosis programme in Ukraine
  18-05-2011
  WHO/Europe has just published a new report which reviews the national tuberculosis programme in Ukraine.
• Just Published: Ukraine Health System Review
  27-04-2011
  The Ukrainian health system has preserved the fundamental features of the Soviet Semashko system against a background of other changes, which are developed on market economic principles. The transition from centralized financing to its extreme decentralization is the main difference in the health system in comparison with the classic Soviet model.
• Chernobyl, 25 years on: WHO/Europe renews support for the people affected and builds on the lessons learned
  19-04-2011
  Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, will join many other leaders from around the world to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and to review the reconstruction and development of the affected communities.
• Ukraine adopts pictorial health warnings on tobacco products
  14-04-2011
  On 30 March 2011, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine announced the adoption of pictorial health warnings on tobacco products, to be introduced on 30 September 2012.
• World Health Day celebrated in Ukraine with conference on antimicrobial resistance
  11-04-2011
  In celebration of World Health Day 2011 an international scientific conference on antimicrobial resistance and its global spread took place in Kyiv 7-8 April 2011.
• Eastern European countries to discuss common challenges and solutions for water and health issues
  01-04-2011
  Representatives of Belarus, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine will meet at a workshop in Minsk, Belarus, on 5-6 April 2011 to share experiences and discuss challenges related to the implementation of the Protocol on Water and Health.
• Workshop on school health services and referrals reform. Kyiv, Ukraine, 8-11 February 2011
  10-02-2011
• New publication on integrated care
  24-01-2011
  WHO commissioned a report to examine the development of integrated care services in three sites for people with a history of injection drug use in Ukraine, as part of the country’s ongoing response to the HIV epidemic.
• Launch of the report "Evaluation of structure and provision of primary care in Ukraine"
  07-01-2011
  In 2009, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, supported by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), evaluated primary care in Ukraine using PCET methodology. The results of the study are published in the final report "Evaluation of structure and provision of primary care in Ukraine". A national conference to launch the report was organized in Kiev on 15 December 2010.
• 4 countries release data on exposure to second-hand smoke
  05-01-2011
  Key findings of tobacco surveys in Poland, the Russian Federation, Turkey and Ukraine show that non-smokers’ exposure to second-hand smoke is alarmingly high in the hospitality sector, workplace and home.
• Assessment of health systems' crisis preparedness – Ukraine published
  28-05-2010
  Assessment of health systems' crisis preparedness – Ukraine has been published and is available for download.
• International Course on Strategic Planning for Human Resources for Health
  15-05-2010
• Workshop “Health systems’ crisis preparedness in Poland and Ukraine”
  30-04-2010
  Lviv, 27–28 April 2010
• World Health Day 2010 Celebration
  15-04-2010
  An international conference took place on 7–8 April at National Medical University, held jointly by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and WHO Country Office, Ukraine.