A specialized agency of the United Nations designed as a coordinating authority on international health work; its aim is to promote the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples.
    

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Press release 15th May 1991 : "Journalists reluctant to focus on WHO HIV/AIDS figures" : HIV/AIDS global figures and the developing world / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.

Contraceptive methods and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / World Health Organization Special Programme on AIDS and Special Programme of Research, Development, and Research Training in Human Reproduction.

An enlarged view of the HIV virus with a list of ten points about how the virus is transmitted. Colour lithograph, 1990.

Transmission of HIV / World Health Organization Special Programme on AIDS.

World Health Organization launches public information effort to increase global awareness of AIDS / World Health Organization Media Service.

What's the World Health Organization for? : final report from the Centre on Global Health Security Working Group on Health Governance / Charles Clift.

WHO and postwar disease control programmes : more than malaria / Suparna Banerjee.

After Ebola.

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 8C.

Postage stamps ephemera. Box 9B.

Four school children sitting in class with the words 'A','I','D','S' spelt out in the shape of a clock; an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December 1993 by the UNESCO Programme of Education for the Prevention of AIDS. Colour lithograph D. Roger and A. Jonquieres.

World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention : London 26-28 January 1988 : use of the interpretation equipment / jointly organised by the World Health Organization and the United Kingdom Government.

World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention : London 26-28 January 1988 / jointly organised by the World Health Organization and the United Kingdom Government.

Three rows of silhouette figures against a cloudy sky representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December 1994 for families with AIDS by the World Health Organization. Colour lithograph.

A blue sky with three large silhouette yellow figures enveloping four smaller red figures who stand behind two small [children] figures with their arms joined; an advertisement for World AIDS Day on 1 December 1994 by the Organisation Mondiale de la Santé. Colour lithograph by Marilyn Langfield.

International ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects / prepared by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Nitrogen oxides.

Malaria terminology : report of a drafting committee appointed by the World Health Organization / Sir Gordon Covell, Paul F. Russell, N.H. Swellengrebel.

World mortality in 2000 : life tables for 191 countries / A.D. Lopez [and others].

Demographic trends in the European region : health and social implications / edited by Alan D. Lopez and Robert L. Cliquet.

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International ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects / prepared by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Nitrogen oxides.

Malaria terminology : report of a drafting committee appointed by the World Health Organization / Sir Gordon Covell, Paul F. Russell, N.H. Swellengrebel.

World mortality in 2000 : life tables for 191 countries / A.D. Lopez [and others].

Demographic trends in the European region : health and social implications / edited by Alan D. Lopez and Robert L. Cliquet.