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Question
Mention some of the important achievements of WHO.
Solution
With the view to provide health to all and attainment of highest possible level of health WHO has been successful in:
(i) Eradication of Small Pox altogether.
(ii) Cholera and Plague epidemics are getting rarer.
(iii) Guinea worms have been eliminated. Leprosy is better managed.
(iv) Diarrhoeal deaths have been reduced.
(v) Vaccination of infants for Polkrhas been popularized.
(vi) The infant mortality rate has dropped.
(vii) Special programmes for prevention of AIDS have been launched.
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