{"id":29867,"date":"2025-02-04T09:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T04:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29867"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:00:17","slug":"world-health-organization-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-health-organization-who\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organization (WHO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>World Health Organization Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The World Health Organization chief recently asked global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency.<\/p>\n<h2>About World Health Organization<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>United Nations specialized agency <\/strong>for health.<\/li>\n<li>It was established in <strong>1948 <\/strong>with the objective of the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Each year WHO celebrates its date of establishment,<strong> April 7, <\/strong>1948, as <strong>World Health Day.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Health, as defined in the WHO Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.<\/li>\n<li>WHO is responsible for <strong>providing leadership on global health matters<\/strong>, shaping the health research agenda, <strong>setting norms and standards<\/strong>, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>193 member countries<\/strong> and two associate members.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has its administrative <strong>headquarters in Geneva,<\/strong> Switzerland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>World Health Organization Structure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The governance of WHO <strong>operates through the World Health Assembly<\/strong>, which meets annually as the <strong>general policy-making body<\/strong>, and through an <strong>Executive Board of health specialists <\/strong>elected for three-year terms by the assembly.<\/li>\n<li>The agency is l<strong>ed by a director general<\/strong> nominated by the Executive Board and appointed by the World Health Assembly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>World Health Organization Funding<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Roughly <strong>16 percent<\/strong> of the budget comes from<strong> mandatory dues paid by members<\/strong>; the <strong>rest is made up of voluntary donations<\/strong> from governments and private partners.<\/li>\n<li>In recent years, the top voluntary contributors have included the U<strong>nited States, Germany, the United Kingdom<\/strong>, and the <strong>Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>World Health Organization FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. WHO is the current director-general of WHO?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The current director-general is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Where is the headquarters of WHO?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. WHO&#8217;s headquarters is located in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What was the theme of the World Health Day in 2024?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The theme of World Health Day in 2024 is &#8216;My Health, My Right&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/who-chief-asks-countries-to-push-washington-to-reconsider-its-withdrawal\/article69175186.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}