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The World Health Organization (WHO) is the @UN's specialized agency for health, governed by 194 Member States. It provides science-based recommendations to protect people's health everywhere.

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WHO is committed to achieving better health for everyone, everywhere!

Healthy people can learn, work & support themselves & their families. When people are sick, they struggle & families & communities fall behind.

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Thanks to WHO:
There’s a global standard-setting body to bring together the 🌎's top health experts to produce to make recommendations to bring better health to people throughout the world bit.ly/3fRQYkY

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Thanks to WHO, the 🌍 has an International Classification of Diseases, which enables all countries to use a common standard for reporting diseases and identifying health trends
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Thanks to WHO:
The world has the WHO Essential Medicines List
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Thanks to WHO:
We have the International Health Regulations - helping countries manage disease outbreaks such as #Ebola or #COVID19

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Thanks to WHO:
We have @FCTCofficial - a formidable tool to help reduce disease and death caused by tobacco 🚭 bit.ly/3bzYbTm

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Thanks to WHO:
We have a Global Health Observatory, a powerful tool helping countries chart vital details about who is falling sick, from which disease, and where, so that efforts can be targeted where they are needed most bit.ly/3dRH3tS

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Without WHO, would the world have eradicated #smallpox, brought polio to the brink, and saved millions of lives from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria?

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The WHO mission is to:
✅ promote health
✅ keep the world safe
✅ serve the vulnerable

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