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The '''World Health Organization''' ('''WHO''')is the latest manifestation of an international health organization. It was preceeded by the Health Organisation of the League of Nations in Geneva, which held its last meeting in 1938 just prior to the outbreak of World War II. A conference of allied nations was held in San Francisco just after World War II to establish the United Nations at which time the ''Charter of the United Nations'' was drafted. The allied nations also thought that a new international health organization should be formed. The WHO Constitution came into force in 1948 and the first World Health Assembly was held in Geneva in that same year to establish priorities for the new organization.<ref>{REFjournal |last=McCarthy |first=Michael |init= |author-link= |etal=no |title=A brief history of the World Health Organization |trans-title= |language= |journal=Lancet |location= |date=2002-10-12 |volume=360 |issue=9340 |article= |page= |pages=1111-2 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(02)11244-X.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=12387972 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11244-X. |accessdate=2021-12-28}}</ref> The WHO is lead by a Director-General. The present Director-General in [[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus]] who took office in April 3027.
In July 2012, the '''WHO''' (World Health Organization) published a study<ref>[http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/ Male circumcision for HIV prevention]</ref> (just in time for the just then started [[Circumcision Debate]] in Germany) which recommended to perform [[circumcision]]s as a prevention against [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]. This study supposedly promises a 60% protection against [[AIDS]].