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OIE supports its Members through the commissioning and publication of global studies which, to date, have focused on the following key topics: ‘Prevention and Control of Animal Diseases Worldwide’, the ‘Cost of National Prevention Systems for Animal Diseases and Zoonoses in Developing and

In this connection, we also urge UN Member States to reaffirm their commitment to achieving the MDG target on universal access to reproductive health, which includes, based on the concept of informed choice, the availability of

Given various statistical data on the dynamic nature of health in Namibia, the Government is fully informed that the Millennium Development Goal to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015 can only be achieved if national mortality is halved during the same period (Republic of Namibia, 2007; road map:4); and that without nutritional surveillance and promotion of maternal and child nutrition, as well as improving the national status of nutrition among the vulnerable groups (particularly women, children, and people living with HIV/AIDS); prevention of HIV transmission from mother to the unborn child through the use of antiretroviral treatment; and improvement of the

In the area of health, child and maternal mortality rates and

It noted that legislation criminalizing same-sex activities also created a dangerous impediment to the effective prevention

Several also considered that the overarching goals for which UNESCO was established remain even more valid and relevant today, in an environment characterized by emerging trends and global challenges, such as the persistence of threats to peace and international security, the deepening of poverty, together with its

The Special Committee requests the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Field Support to continue to provide an annual, detailed, briefing to the Special Committee on the progress made in dealing with healthrelated issues in peacekeeping operations, and in this regard, looks forward to receiving, in advance of its next substantive session, information on the causes and

The net decrease reflects reductions under most objects of expenditure, including $242,800 under consultants, mainly as a consequence of the increased use of in-house expertise, where possible; $104,700 under experts, resulting mainly from concerted efforts to combine meetings or reduce the number of experts and the duration of meetings, whenever possible; $121,200 under travel of staff, mainly attributable to increased utilization of video conferencing, combining trips and/or reducing the duration of travel as much as possible;

At its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly adopted the Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, which included a request to the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the Director-General of the World Health Organization,

Efforts at development of human capacities in least developed countries have been affected by high incidence of poverty, mass unemployment, high population growth rates, poor health and nutrition outcomes, as evidenced by high child and maternal morbidity and mortality rates and

The increase in chronic conditions in middle- and low-income countries is particularly challenging because many of those

Indication or prescription, and execution where

(c) The efforts exerted by the Council of Arab Ministers of Health, in cooperation with member States, with a view to implementing Goal 4, concerning the reduction of infant mortality rates, Goal 5, concerning the improvement of