World Health Organization

noun

1. WHO.

World Health Organization

noun

1. WHO. an agency of the United Nations, established in 1948 with headquarters in Geneva, responsible for coordinating international health activities, aiding governments in improving health services, etc

World Health Organization

1. A specialized agency of the United Nations, established in 1948 and headquartered in Geneva, whose mission is to prevent the international spread of diseases, such as cholera, malaria, and poliomyelitis.

Example Sentences

Just a third of Gaza’s 176 hospitals and clinics are functional, and nearly 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed since the war began, according to the World Health Organization.

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To address these growing threats, the World Health Organization has issued new clinical guidelines and strengthened its Global Arbovirus Initiative, which focuses on improving monitoring, prevention, and international coordination.

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In 2017, she was the lead author on a paper in the academic journal Public Health Panorama, which is published by the World Health Organization, that proposed a new fumes-related disease called “aerotoxic syndrome.”

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Lenacapavir has delivered impressive trial results and, in July, it received official backing from the World Health Organization for HIV prevention.

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The Palestinian Medical Relief Society's primary healthcare centre in Gaza City was meanwhile destroyed in an Israeli air strike which reportedly injured two health workers, the World Health Organization said.

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