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United Nations Health Agencies

The specialized agencies and programs of the United Nations system with a health mandate, coordinating international health policy, disease response and health related standards across member states, each entry recording its founding, its mandate and its headquarters. This subcategory excludes a regional health agency whose mandate covers only part of the world, which belongs under its own subcategory instead.

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1. Wikipedia: World Health Organization
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The WHO was established on 7 April 1948, and formally began its work on 1 September 1948.
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