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World Health Day

7 April

Each year on April 7th, the world celebrates World Health Day. On this day around the globe, thousands of events mark the importance of health for productive and happy lives.

To reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases are among the Millennium Development Goals which all Member States have pledged to meet by the year 2015.

Links to UN and UN System sites:

United Nations

* UN and health issues (http://www.un.org/issues/m-health.html)
* UN Works - Health (http://www.un.org/works/sub4.asp?lang=en&id=6)
* Fighting Disease (UN CyberSchoolBus) (http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/special/health/index.html)

World Health Organization

* World Health Day
* Global Atlas of the Health Workforce
* WHO and the Millennium Development Goals
* Avian Influenza

Pan American Health Organization

* World Health Day

Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS

UNFPA

* Improving Reproductive Health
* Preventing HIV Infection

UNICEF

* Health
* HIV/AIDS
* Immunization Plus

World Bank Group

* Health, Nutrition and Population
* High-Level Forum on the Health MDGs (coordinated by WHO and the World Bank)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

The additional resources links on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not necessarily represent an endorsement by the United Nations.

DFID Health Resource Centre

Doctors Without Borders

Family Health International

Global Health Council

Health Development Initiative

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - Health

International Health Exchange

Management Sciences for Health

Médecins du Monde

Population Council