World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is the world's agency for international cooperation in improving the physical and mental health of all. It helps nations to stamp out mass diseases, coordinates efforts to prevent the spread of epidemics, trains health workers and promotes international medical research. The organization was founded on April 7, 1948. It has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Thanks to the activities of WHO smallpox has been completely eradicated from the earth and malaria has been brought under control in many countries where it once spread death. Intensive campaigns are being waged by the WHO against yellow fever, tuberculosis and leprosy. It has played a great role in the development and testing of poliomyelitis and measles vaccines, and it has kept a watch on cholera, plague and influenza.

The World Health Organization now gives extensive support to doctors' training, nursing services to mothers and children, family planning as a means of improving family health, water supply and waste disposal systems and to health laboratories. More than ever before, WHO's efforts are aimed at environmental control. WHO has a great task ahead of it coordinating the worldwide campaign against AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).

3. Answer the questions to the text:

1. When was WHO founded? 2. Where are its headquarters? 3. What campaigns are being waged by the WHO? 4. What are WHO's efforts aimed at? 5. WHO has a great task ahead of it coordinating the worldwide campaign against AIDS, hasn’t it?

4. Translate into English:

1. Всесвітня організація охорони здоров’я – світове агенство, створене для співпраці в галузі медицини.

2. ВООЗ заснована 1948 року.

3. Інтенсивна кампанія ведеться проти жовтої лихоманки і туберкульозу.

4. 7 квітня – Всесвітній день здоров’я.

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