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The World Health Organization (English: World Health Organization, often abbreviated as WHO) is one of the UN agencies that acts as the international public health coordinator and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. WHO was founded by the United Nations on April 7, 1948. The current Director General is Tedros Adhanom (served from 1 July 2017). WHO inherited many of its mandates and supplies from its former organization, the Health Organization, which was an agency of the LBB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The WHO constitution states that the purpose of the establishment of WHO “is for all people to attain the highest possible level of health”. The main task of WHO is to eradicate disease, especially infectious diseases that have spread widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WHO is one of the original bodies of the United Nations, its constitution first appeared on the first World Health Day (7 April 1948) when it was ratified (Ratification) by the 26th member of the United Nations. Jawarharlal Nehru, a major freedom fighter from India, has voiced his opinion on starting the WHO. The activities of WHO, as well as the rest of the activities of the United Nations Health Organization (League of Nations), are governed by an Interim Commission as determined at an International Health Conference in the summer of 1946. Changes are made by means of a United Nations General Assembly Resolution. The epidemiological services of the French Office International d’Hygi\u00e8ne Publique were included in the WHO Interim Commission on 1 January 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to regulating international efforts to control the spread of infectious diseases, such as SARS, malaria, tuberculosis, swine flu and AIDS, WHO also sponsors programs aimed at preventing and treating diseases such as these examples. WHO supports the development and distribution of safe and effective vaccines, diagnosis of diseases and disorders, and medicines. After about two decades (twenty years) of fighting variola, in 1980 WHO declared the extinction of smallpox (variola), the first disease in history to be eradicated by human effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WHO targets to eradicate polio within the next few years. The organization has launched the HIV\/AIDS Toolkit for Zimbabwe (from 3 October 2006), to international standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to its task of eradicating disease, WHO also carries out various health-related campaigns — for example, to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables worldwide and to seek to reduce tobacco use . Experts met at WHO headquarters in Geneva in February 2007 and reported that their work on the development of a pandemic influenza vaccine had made good progress. More than 40 clinical trials have been completed or are in progress. Most are focused on healthy adults. Several companies, after completing safety analyzes in adults, have started clinical trials in the elderly and children. So far all vaccines are safe and can be tolerated by the body (accepted by the body) at all age levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n