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Health ministry supports who's guidelines on banning use of ingredients in cigarette production
December 30, 2010The Ministry of Health of Moldova (MoH) has supported the World Health Organization's (WHO) guidelines concerning the ban on the use of ingredients in the manufacture of tobacco products, adopted within the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control...
UN Says Casualties Rising In Mogadishu
June 04, 2010The World Health Organization reports at least 1,400 people have been wounded in fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu between March 20 and May 24. WHO says escalating fighting between government forces and Islamic militants is taking a heavy toll...
Moldova to buy anti-flu drugs from Switzerland
November 07, 2009The Moldovan government has decided to purchase 500,000 dozes of antiviral medicines, worth 40m lei (3.5m US dollars), from Switzerland. Prime Minister Vlad Filat said that the number of doses to be purchased in Switzerland will cover 30 per cent of...
Asia Activates Pandemic Plans After WHO Alert
April 30, 2009By Heda Bayron Health authorities in Asia have swiftly responded to the World Health Organization's warning of an "imminent pandemic" of swine flu. Authorities have activated pandemic plans, tightened surveillance at borders and stockpiled...
No swine flu cases registered in Moldova yet
April 28, 2009No swine flu cases have been registered in Moldova yet, according to the Health Minsitry (MS). The cases of the flu caused by the swine root of the flu virus were signalled in the last days in Mexico and the USA, according to a press release. At the...