23 December 2010 -- 2010 was a year when a long-term collaboration culminated in an affordable vaccine to eliminate one of Africa's biggest health problems. But it was also a year of public health challenges stemming from a series of natural disasters in Haiti and Pakistan. In Pakistan, WHO and health partners provided enough medicines to cover the basic health needs of 6.7 million people during the flood crisis.

21 December 2010 -- Complex problems can sometimes be solved with simple solutions. Viet Nam has achieved significant improvements in maternal and child health by providing weekly supplements of iron and folic acid. In the Philippines progress has been achieved by encouraging breastfeeding. As a result, both countries have reduced under five mortality and lowered maternal mortality.

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17 December 2010 -- Containment of antimicrobial resistance is the topic for World Health Day in April 2011. It comes ten years after WHO published its global containment strategy on the same theme. This WHO Bulletin article explains that antimicrobial resistance strikes at the core of infectious disease control and has the potential to halt, and possibly even to roll back, progress.