New health measures against floods and drought.

PositionUN Reported: News on the United Nations System at Work - Brief Article

The World Health Organization (WHO) on 4 September called for a series of measures in response to the health problems related to floods and droughts. Almost 2 billion people were affected by natural disasters in the 1990s, with floods and droughts accounting for 86 per cent of them. WHO recommended early-warning systems to...

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