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Philippines confirms second case of swine flu
Manila :: Philippines | 6 months ago
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Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Sunday that a 50-year-old woman who arrived from the United States on Wednesday went tested positive for the virus. The woman was treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu and is rapidly recovering in a hospital.
Tags: Philippines-The Department of Health, swine flu, h1n1 flu, flu virus, United States, Francisco Duque III, health secretary, World Health Assembly, secretary francisco, confirmed cases
More UK swine flu cases confirmed
Geneva :: Switzerland | 6 months ago
Credibility Two more cases of swine flu have been confirmed, taking Britain's total to 109. The Department of Health said the new cases involved one adult and one child, both from London. One was linked to a previously confirmed case while the other was linked to...
Tags: pandemic, swine flu, World Health Assembly, World Health Organisation
Taiwan attends WHA as observer
Taipei :: Taiwan | 6 months ago
Credibility Taiwan's long exclusion from United Nations agencies ended Monday when it attended the World Health Assembly annual meeting in Switzerland as an observer. "I feel really good, really terrific," Taiwan's Central News Agency quoted Health Minister Yeh Ching-chuan...
Tags: Taiwan, China Post, health ministers, World Health Assembly, WHA
Taiwan moves ahead in world recognition
Taipei :: Taiwan | 7 months ago
Credibility President Ma Ying-Jeou of Taiwan announced Wednesday that Chinese officials had dropped their objections to Taiwan's participation as an observer at a U.N. body, a step forward in Taiwan's effort to win greater international recognition. China strongly...
Tags: Taiwan, China Mobile Ltd., China Airlines, Ma Ying-jeou, Taipei Forex Inc, Chinese Taipei, net loss, taiwan dollar, World Health Assembly, WHA
Taiwan granted coveted Observer status at WHO
Su Jun-pin Minister – Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan) Taiwan, seen as a successful example of democracy in Asia, has worked long and hard to implement political reform. It now hopes to use the enormous vitality...
Tags: asia, taiwan, world health organisation, WHO, swine flu, china, diplomacy, health, international, south east asia, observer, cross strait relations, beijing, Ma Ying-jeou, World Health Assembly, WHA
WHO invites Taiwan to attend WHA as..
Taipei :: Taiwan | 7 months ago
Credibility The World Health Organization (WHO) has invited health authorities in Taiwan to attend the 62nd World Health Assembly (WHA) with observer status, China's Health Ministry confirmed Wednesday. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan sent an invitation to the...
Tags: Taiwan, China Mobile Ltd., The World Health Organization, World Health Assembly, observers status, Chinese Taipei, invited taiwan, Beijing
Taiwan talking to China about WHA attendance: Taiwan President
Taipei :: Taiwan | 11 months ago
Credibility Taiwan was holding talks with China about the island’s attendance at the World Health Assembly in Geneva next May, President Ma Ying-jeou said in an interview published Tuesday. “We are really in the process of discussing this topic with the other side...
Tags: Central Bank of Taiwan, Taiwan Straits, World Health Assembly, China, WHA
WHO bridges rich-poor intellectual property split
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 1 year ago
Credibility The World Health Organisation's 193 member states on Saturday overcame their deep divisions over intellectual property rules and endorsed a strategy to help improve developing-country access to drugs and medical tests. At the United Nations agency's annual...
Tags: Margaret Chan, World Health Assembly, public health, intellectual property, Geneva
Non-communicable ailments can kill
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Non-communicable diseases like heart condition and stroke are gradually replacing diarrhoea, tuberculosis and infections as the chief killers globally, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO)...But in more and more countries the chief...
Health ministers to debate drug patent dispute
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Health ministers from around the world will try next week to bridge differences over how to overhaul drug patent rules that developing countries say make life-saving medicines costly and inaccessible. The World Health Organization (WHO) has struggled...
Tags: World Health Assembly
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