WHO

WHO

WHO (World Health Organization)

Full Name: World Health Organization

Acronym: WHO

Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland

Formed: 1948 by the UN

By Stella and Hudson

Who is in WHO?

Activities and Responsibilities

• 194 Member Countries
• All countries that are in the UN can be in WHO if they are accepted
• WHO operates in 40 countries

Two Global Issues WHO Has Been a Part Of

• Vaccinating people
• Give people better safety in things like fresh air, clean water, food, and medicine.
• Helping people in other countries be get more healthy exercise
• Help people living in poverty get the health benefits they desperately need
• Good health and well-being
• Standard working conditions

Syrian Crisis

Zika Virus

In 2016....

• 10 million medical treatments and medicines were scent out
• sick and wounded patients were evacuated safely and successfully from places like East Aleppo
• 16 000 health workers received proper training
• children all across Syria were vaccinated

For 2017 WHO wants to fix...

• how hundreds of bystanders are killed from attacks on health in the last year
• how places like Aleppo have been going on without a functioning hospital.

• Educating people on the dangers of Zika and how to avoid mosquitoes that contain it
• trying to figure out vaccines to treat it
• finding ways to contain and purify mosquitoes that can contain Zika
• In February 2016 WHO launched a response plan to Zika called the Strategic Response Framework and Joint Operations Plan

Thank You!

WHO's Goals and purpose

• To make a better and healthier future for all people
• Combat diseases like HIV, influenza, cancer and heart disease.
• Access to healthcare for all people
• Heightened access to medical products (such as vaccines) for everyone
• no poverty or famine
• Affordable Energy
• Quality education