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World Health Day 2011: Urgent action necessary to safeguard drug treatments

7 April 2011 - Drug resistance is becoming more severe and many infections are no longer easily cured, leading to prolonged and expensive treatment and greater risk of death, warns the World Health Organization (WHO) on World Health Day.

07 Apr 2011

Top Afghan and UN health officials in Kabul warn of dangers from drug resistance

KABUL - The Afghan Ministry of Public Health and the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) are warning that urgent action is needed to curb excessive use of antibiotics and other antimicrobials or the world risks returning to an era before the discovery of these medicine

07 Apr 2011

With wreath-laying ceremony, UN staff mourn colleagues killed in line of duty

06 Apr 2011

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks at the wreath-laying ceremony in New York

6 April 2011 - Ladies and Gentlemen, we gather, today, to mourn our colleagues. The roster of the fallen, in recent days, has been shocking and profoundly sad.

We stand in solidarity with their friends and families, united in sorrow, but united also in our mission.

06 Apr 2011

In Afghanistan, UN staff remember the ‘quiet heroes’ killed in mob attack

06 Apr 2011

In Memoriam of fallen colleagues in Mazar-i-Sharif and in Kabul

KABUL - On 28 October 2009, attackers stormed the Bakhtar guest house in Kabul killing five United Nations staff as part of a plan to disrupt the presidential election runoff. We remember:

Jossie Esto, UNDP electoral volunteer from the Philippines

05 Apr 2011

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