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  • End of Ebola transmission in Guinea
    1 June 2016 -- WHO declares the end of Ebola virus transmission in the Republic of Guinea. Forty-two days have passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola virus disease tested negative for the second time. Guinea now enters a 90-day period of heightened surveillance.
  • World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2016: Get ready for plain packaging
    31 May 2016 – To mark World No Tobacco Day, WHO is launching a new guide to plain packaging of tobacco products, which gives governments the latest evidence and guidance on implementing the measure.
  • Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly closes
    28 May 2016 -- The Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly closed today after approving new resolutions on WHO’s Framework for Engagement with Non-State Actors; the Sustainable Development Goals; the International Health Regulations; tobacco control; road traffic deaths and injuries; nutrition; HIV, hepatitis and STIs; mycetoma; research and development; access to medicines and integrated health services.

Outbreak and emergency media centres

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Cuban medical team in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak 2014
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Emergency Medical Teams

When large-scale disasters strike, governments can get help quickly by asking WHO to deploy Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs). This photo story illustrates the work of EMTs.

Photos

WHO Director-General, Jamie Oliver, British celebrity chef, at the World Health Assembly meeting.
WHO/L. Cipriani

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Infographic: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Stories from countries

Girl from Central African Republic smiling.
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Fact files, online Q&As

General information, questions and brief answers on health topics

Fact sheets

Key information about diseases: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, WHO response

Director-General's speeches

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO speaking at the plenary session of the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly.
WHO/Pierre Albouy
  • Closing remarks at the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly
    28 May 2016 -- In her closing remarks, Dr Margaret Chan highlighted some main achievements of the Health Assembly, including approval of the new programme for health emergencies. She described the item on polio eradicatoin as a high point, noting that one of the greatest achievements in the history of public health is now within our grasp.

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Map of Ebola cases in West Africa from January 2014 to December 2015.
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