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The World Health Organization (WHO) plays a critical role within the United Nations system as the directing and coordinating authority for international health. Its wide-ranging remit involves providing leadership on increasingly complex global health matters, producing health guidelines, norms and standards, monitoring and assessing health trends and shaping the health research agenda. It is also committed to providing technical support to countries and helping them to address pressing public health issues. WHO strives to develop innovative and creative partnerships, fostering new ways of working in order to achieve common health goals, and, along with over 190 Member States, works with myriad bodies, including other United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations, donors and civil society. The organization leads the global health sector response to the HIV epidemic. As a Cosponsor of UNAIDS, WHO takes the lead on HIV treatment and care and HIV / tuberculosis co-infection, and jointly coordinates work on the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). In 2015, WHO will focus on collaborating with countries to achieve global goals and targets, including those outlined in the Global Health Sector Strategy on HIV/AIDS for 2011–2015. That strategy aims to guide a sustainable health sector response to HIV by strengthening health and community systems, tackling the social determinants of health that act as barriers to the response and promoting human rights and gender equality.

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Publisher:
UNAIDS, WHO ,   (2015 )
Type / Script:
Bulletin or Poster in English
Keywords:
MENTAL HEALTH, HEALTH, RIGHT TO HEALTH, HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH, HEALTH PROGRAMME, HEALTH SERVICES, SOCIAL SERVICES, HEALTH EDUCATION, WOMEN'S HEALTH, CIVIL SOCIETY, HUMAN RIGHT, GENDER EQUALITY, DISCRIMINATION, NUTRITION
Thematic Group:
 WHO : World Health Organization
Thesaurus:
10.02.00  -  Comprehensive Health Services
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