Topic: Margaret Chan
AFP Global Edition | 2009-11-09 14:10:31
<div><p>Women are often deprived of health care in the crucial years of adolescence and old age due to social inequalities and neglect in male dominated decision-making, the World Health Organisation said Monday.</p><p>"It's time to pay girls and women back, to make sure that they get the ...
Reuters Life! Online Report | 2009-11-09 13:19:17
<div><p>GENEVA (Reuters) - Despite living six to eight years longer than men, women lack essential health care throughout their lives, particularly as teenagers and elderly people, the World Health Organization said on Monday.</p><p>In a report, the WHO said that women around the world are "denied a chance to ...
Reuters US Online Report World News | 2009-10-28 18:56:23
<div><p>HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro "looks wonderful," World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on Wednesday, after meeting the 83-year-old who resigned the presidency last year due to ailing health.</p><p>Chan, speaking at the end of her first visit to Cuba, said she met with ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-10-21 17:00:43
<div><p>Childhood immunization rates reached an all-time high around the world last year and vaccine development is booming, the World Health Organization and the World Bank said in a report Wednesday.</p><p>Despite the record 106 million vaccinations the report said 24 million children were deprived access to immunization programs ...
