The WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) is responsible for assessing psychoactive substances for possible control under the international drug control conventions. The ECDD reviews the therapeutic usefulness, the…

Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable death globally, killing more than five million people each year. Tobacco use also creates considerable economic costs, from greater spending on…

Within the continuum of reproductive health care, antenatal care provides a platform for important health-care functions, including health promotion, screening and diagnosis, and disease prevention. It has been established that…

The World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations advises the Director-General of WHO in the area of medicines quality assurance. It provides independent expert recommendations and…

The established WHO Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Vaccine Deployment Initiative represented the first coordinated global response to an influenza pandemic. Between June 2009 and October 2010, WHO, other technical agencies, donor…

The Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations works toward clear, independent, and practical standards and guidelines for the quality assurance of medicines. Standards are developed by the Committee through…

This report presents the recommendations of a WHO Expert Committee commissioned to coordinate activities leading to the adoption of international recommendations for the production and control of vaccines and other…

The report Monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and interventions to combat it. The sixth in the series of WHO reports focuses on…