| Directory: | Arts / Photography / Contests |
| Title: | WHO Photo Contest "Images of Health and Disability" |
| Description: | The World Health Organization invites photographers around the world to submit photos in three categories: color, black and white, and digital photographs. |
| Location: | http://www3.who.int/icf/icftemplate.cfm |
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| Directory: | Business / Biotechnology_and_Pharmaceuticals / Pharmaceuticals / Products_Evaluation / Clinical_Trials |
| Title: | International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) |
| Description: | The mission of the WHO Registry Platform is to ensure that a complete view of research is accessible to all those involved in health care decision making. This will improve research transparency and will ultimately strengthen the validity and value of the scientific evidence base. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/ictrp/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Addictions / Substance_Abuse |
| Title: | Lexicon of Alcohol and Drug Terms |
| Description: | Defines many alcohol and substance abuse words and phrases from "absolute alcohol" to "zoopsia." Published by World Health Organization |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/terminology/who_lexicon/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Addictions / Substance_Abuse / Tobacco |
| Title: | WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) |
| Description: | A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Addictions / Substance_Abuse / Tobacco |
| Title: | WHO: The Tobacco Atlas |
| Description: | History of tobacco, types of use, male and female smoking, youth, cigarette consumption, health effects, secondhand smoke, deaths, costs; the trade, the industry, smuggling, tobacco promotion and marketing, Internet sales, politics; activism, research, tobacco control, policy initiatives; quitting, litigation, pricing, and futures. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Addictions / Substance_Abuse / Tobacco / Organizations |
| Title: | Tobacco Free Initiative |
| Description: | World Health Organization provides information on tobacco's health impact, secondhand smoke, economics, youth, industry conduct, women and tobacco, and advocacy for tobacco policy change. |
| Location: | http://tobacco.who.int/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Aging / Life_Expectancy |
| Title: | Healthy Life Expectancy |
| Description: | Offers an international comparison of disability adjusted life expectancies. |
| Location: | http://www3.who.int/whosis/hale/hale.cfm?path=whosis,hale&language=english |
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| Directory: | Health / Alternative / Acupuncture_and_Chinese_Medicine |
| Title: | Traditional Medicine |
| Description: | World Health Organization fact sheet. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact134.html |
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| Directory: | Health / Alternative / Acupuncture_and_Chinese_Medicine / Publications |
| Title: | World Health Organization Publications: Traditional Medicine |
| Description: | Catalog includes monographs on research and East Asian medicinals. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/dsa/cat98/trad8.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Alternative / Folk_Medicine |
| Title: | Traditional Medicine |
| Description: | World Health Organization fact sheet outlining the place of traditional healing practices in modern society. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs134/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Child_Health / Conditions_and_Diseases |
| Title: | Tobacco Use by Children |
| Description: | Report from the World Health Organization. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact179.html |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Chronic_Illness |
| Title: | Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases |
| Description: | Combined World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization expert report on prevention of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, dental diseases and osteoporosis. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/hpr/NPH/docs/who_fao_expert_report.pdf |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Digestive_Disorders / Liver / Hepatitis / Hepatitis_A |
| Title: | WHO: Hepatitis A Vaccine |
| Description: | Discusses the disease, vaccine, and vaccination recommendations. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/vaccines/en/hepatitisa.shtml |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Digestive_Disorders / Liver / Hepatitis / Hepatitis_A |
| Title: | WHO: Hepatitis A |
| Description: | Includes factsheet on the disease with cause, prevention, risk factors, organism information, diagnosis, epidemiology, vaccination, symptoms, prevention, and treatment. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/csr/disease/hepatitis/whocdscsredc2007/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Food_and_Water_Borne |
| Title: | Food Safety and Foodborne Illness |
| Description: | Factsheet from the World Health Organization. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs237/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Food_and_Water_Borne |
| Title: | WHO: Foodborne Disease |
| Description: | Includes disease surveillance, publications, and links. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/foodsafety/foodborne_disease/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Food_and_Water_Borne |
| Title: | WHO: Water-related Disease |
| Description: | Includes factsheets and issues. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Food_and_Water_Borne |
| Title: | WHO: Foodborne Diseases |
| Description: | Directory of links and news. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/topics/foodborne_diseases/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Food_and_Water_Borne / Toxins |
| Title: | WHO: Water-related diseases - Cyanobacterial Toxins |
| Description: | Includes cause, effects on people, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/cyanobacteria/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases |
| Title: | Disease Outbreak News |
| Description: | Information about disease outbreaks anywhere in the world, searchable by time period, with archives by disease; from the Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR), World Health Organization. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases |
| Title: | Research and Training in Tropical Diseases |
| Description: | Co-sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). It helps co-ordinate global efforts to combat infectious diseases of the poor and disadvantaged. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/tdr/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases |
| Title: | WHO/OMS - Infectious diseases |
| Description: | Articles from the World Health Organization. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Campylobacteriosis |
| Title: | The Increasing Incidence of Human Campylobacteriosis |
| Description: | Report and proceedings of a WHO consultation of experts. |
| Location: | http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2001/WHO_CDS_CSR_APH_2001.7.pdf |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Campylobacteriosis |
| Title: | WHO: Campylobacter |
| Description: | Factsheets and reports from the World Health Organization. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/topics/campylobacter/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Cholera |
| Title: | Cholera |
| Description: | WHO fact sheet with cause, treatment, pandemics, prevention, and transmission. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs107/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Cholera |
| Title: | WHO: Cholera |
| Description: | Includes factsheets, news releases, control measures, vaccines, and information for travelers. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/csr/disease/cholera/globaltaskforce/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Cholera |
| Title: | WHO: Cholera Vaccine |
| Description: | Directory of resources concerning cholera and its vaccine. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/cholera/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Clostridial / Tetanus |
| Title: | WHO/OMS: Neonatal Tetanus |
| Description: | Includes disease and vaccine information, treatment, and prevention. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/vaccines/en/neotetanus.shtml |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Plague |
| Title: | Plague |
| Description: | World Health Organization information on plague, focusing on recent outbreaks and epidemics. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/csr/disease/plague/en/index.html |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Salmonellosis |
| Title: | WHO: Global Salm-Surv |
| Description: | Network of laboratories and individuals involved in surveillance, isolation, identification and antimicrobial resistance testing of Salmonella. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/salmsurv/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Shigellosis |
| Title: | WHO: Shigella |
| Description: | Factsheet with disease and vaccine information. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/shigella/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Bacterial / Typhoid_Fever |
| Title: | WHO Fact Sheet - Typhoid Fever |
| Description: | History, identification, occurrence, transmission, communicability, epidemic measures, disaster implications, prevention, and vaccination/travel advisory by the World Health Organization. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/health_topics/typhoid_fever/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Mycobacterial |
| Title: | WHO: Buruli Ulcer |
| Description: | Includes disease information, press releases, publications, and meetings. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/gtb-buruli/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Mycobacterial / Hansen_s_Disease |
| Title: | WHO: The Elimination of Leprosy |
| Description: | Resources and information from the World Health Organization on this disease and the global strategy to eliminate it. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/lep/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / African_Trypanosomiasis |
| Title: | World Health Organization: African Trypanosomiasis |
| Description: | Fact sheets, research progress, and information about WHO efforts to control this deadly sleeping sickness, which is transmitted to humans by tsetse flies. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/topics/trypanosomiasis_african/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Chagas_Disease |
| Title: | Chagas Disease |
| Description: | Information from the World Health Organization. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/tdr/diseases/chagas/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Flukes / Schistosomiasis |
| Title: | WHO/OMS: Schistosomiasis |
| Description: | Includes factsheets on the disease, programs, and research. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/health-topics/schisto.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Leishmaniasis |
| Title: | WHO/TDR - Leishmaniasis |
| Description: | Provides news, project reports, highlights, progress, publications, workplans, research grants and resources. From the World Health Organization, Tropical Disease Research and Training. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/tdr/diseases/leish/default.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Leishmaniasis |
| Title: | WHO - Leishmaniasis |
| Description: | Provides information on the disease and its impact, surveillance and control, epidemic response, research, fact sheets, information resources and publications. From the World Health Organization. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/leishmaniasis/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Lymphatic_Filariasis |
| Title: | Lymphatic filariasis |
| Description: | Detailed information from the World Health Organization. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/health-topics/lymphfil.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Malaria |
| Title: | Airport Malaria : Jet-Setting Mosquitos Spread Disease |
| Description: | Since 1977, when the disease was first documented, 75 cases of airport malaria have been observed in western Europe. People may be infected by the bite of an anopheles mosquito during a flight or stopover, or while opening containers or luggage all over the airport area. People who live near an airport or whose road transport brings them into the vicinity may also be affected. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/bulletin/pdf/2000/issue8/99-0285.pdf |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Malaria / Control_and_Prevention |
| Title: | Multilateral Initiative on Malaria |
| Description: | An alliance of organizations and individuals concerned with malaria. MIM aims to maximize the impact of scientific research against malaria in Africa, through promoting capacity building and facilitating global collaboration and coordination. MIM will hold the 3rd Pan-African Conference on Malaria in Arusha, Tanzania in November 2002. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/tdr/diseases/malaria/mim.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Malaria / Control_and_Prevention |
| Title: | Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership |
| Description: | Information on the global fight against malaria and the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) initiative. Includes fact sheets and details of current programs. |
| Location: | http://rbm.who.int/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Malaria / Control_and_Prevention |
| Title: | WHO: Global Malaria Programme |
| Description: | Responsible for policy and strategy formulation, operations support and capacity development, and coordination of WHO's global efforts against the disease |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/malaria |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Nematodes |
| Title: | Guinea Worm or Dracunculiasis: WHO |
| Description: | Features disease information and status, control activities, and links. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/ctd/dracun/index.html |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Nematodes |
| Title: | WHO: Water related diseases: Ascariasis |
| Description: | Factsheet with disease information, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/ascariasis/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Nematodes |
| Title: | WHO/OMS: Intestinal Nematodes |
| Description: | Factsheets and publications. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/topics/intestinal_diseases_parasitic/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Parasitic / Onchocerciasis |
| Title: | WHO/OMS: Onchocerciasis |
| Description: | Factsheets, programs, press releases, and research. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/health-topics/oncho.htm |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Spirochetal / Leptospirosis |
| Title: | WHO: Water-related Diseases - Leptospirosis |
| Description: | Factsheet with cause, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention efforts. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/leptospirosis/en/ |
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| Directory: | Health / Conditions_and_Diseases / Infectious_Diseases / Viral / Hemorrhagic_Fevers / Dengue_Fever |
| Title: | WHO: Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever |
| Description: | Includes cause, prevalence, transmission, symptoms, treatment, and prevention. |
| Location: | http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs117/en/ |
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