More than 70 percent of city dwellers in the developing world (that's around 900 million people) live in slum-like conditions, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Snake-oil Survey The World Health Organization (WHO) in June released its ranking of the health care systems of 191 countries, using five measures of performance.

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The next morning, the Secretary-General met with Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) with whom he talked about the United Nations response to H1N1 influenza.

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Another subsidiary of the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO), is also looking to self-fund through global taxes.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) states that physical inactivity is the main cause for 21-25 percent of colon and breast cancer, 27 percent of cases of diabetes, and up to 30 percent of cases of ischemic heart disease.

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For example, in Liberia, a range of partners acted in concert to re-integrate children, including UNICEF, World Food Program, World Health Organization (WHO), ActionAid, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

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To mark World Aids Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement on global progress on cutting new infections and Aids-related deaths.

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The World Health Organization said the new virus has been identified in a 49-year-old man from Qatar who traveled to Saudi Arabia before falling ill Sept. 3.

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"That is an astounding number given that we know how to prevent tobacco-attributable death and disease, " says Dr. Sarah England, the World Health Organization's ( WHO) Tobacco Free Initiative Officer in China.

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