WHO Director-General Margaret Chan looks on during a news conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva November 9, 2009. WHO is launching the "Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda" report which provides the latest and most comprehensive evidence available to date on women's specific needs and health challenges over their entire life-course. Reuters Pictures 1 week ago

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan looks on during a news conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva November 9, 2009. WHO is launching the "Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda" report which provides the latest and most comprehensive evidence available to date on women's specific needs and health challenges over their entire life-course.

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  6. World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Margaret Chan (C) gestures between WHO head of department for gender, women and health, Tonya Ngayo (L) and assistant Director General for family and community health Daisy Mafubelu, during a media presentation of a report 'Women and Health' at the WHO headquarters on November 9, 2009 in Geneva. The report underlined that women were particularly vulnerable to a lack of adequate care in old age -- when they often outlive men -- and in their adolescence.
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