World Health Organization

Sources

1. WebsiteArchived: WHO Timeline — COVID-19

Relations

member of:

• Chernobyl Forum

  Sources: Chernobyl's Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts, Chernobyl: the true scale of the accident

• Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

  Sources: About our alliance

has member:

• D. A. Henderson

  Sources: Smallpox: The Death of a Disease

has part:

• World Health Assembly

  Sources: Resolution WHA33.3: Declaration of global eradication of smallpox

located in:

• Geneva

  Sources: Archived: WHO Timeline — COVID-19

led by:

• Margaret Chan

  Sources: World now at the start of 2009 influenza pandemic

• Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

  Sources: WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 — 11 March 2020

Appears in15 items

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  Chernobyl1 item
  • The Chernobyl Forum's reckoning · member5 Sep 2005
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  HIV and AIDS3 items
  • The first International AIDS Conference · organizer15 Apr 1985
  • Circumcision is recommended for HIV prevention · recommender28 Mar 2007
  • Twice-yearly lenacapavir is approved for prevention · recommender18 Jun 2025
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  Pandemics6 items
  • The last natural case of smallpox · eradication campaign26 Oct 1977
  • WHO declares the first pandemic in 41 years · declarer11 Jun 2009
  • A cluster of pneumonia is reported in Wuhan · notice recipient31 Dec 2019
  • WHO declares a public health emergency · declarer30 Jan 2020
  • WHO calls it a pandemic · declarer11 Mar 2020
  • The global emergency ends · declarer5 May 2023
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  Vaccines5 items
  • 
    The Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme · organizer1967
  • The Global Commission certifies eradication · sponsor9 Dec 1979
  • The World Health Assembly declares smallpox eradicated · parent body8 May 1980
  • Gavi is launched at Davos · founding partnerJan 2000
  • Africa is certified free of wild polio · certifier25 Aug 2020

Mentioned in2 items

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  Pandemics2 items
  • Third plague pandemic1855
  • Seventh cholera pandemic1961