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| 1969 || Program || [[w:World Health Organization|WHO]] suspends the Global Malaria Eradication Programme, after {{w|anopheles}} mosquitoes are found to develop resistance to {{w|DDT}} and continue to reproduce and spread disease in humans.<ref name="vv">{{cite book |last1=Kinkela |first1=David |title=DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=wfS0WnQzGGwC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22in+1969+the+world+health+organization%22&source=bl&ots=hw2nernup-&sig=ziqFQXlvAFrf7YPqm1A2saDDLkA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF14iYoffdAhXKlJAKHYm6BosQ6AEwCHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201969%20the%20world%20health%20organization%22&f=false}}</ref> ||
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| 1970 || Policy || [[w:World Health Organization|WHO]] convenes a committee the task to classify and define the primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs). This expert committee accomplishes its task of creating a unified nomenclature for the then-known PIDs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Notarangelo |first1=Luigi |last2=Casanova |first2=Jean-Laurent |last3=Fischer |first3=Alain |last4=Puck |first4=Jennifer |last5=Rosen |first5=Fred |last6=Seger |first6=Reinhard |last7=Geha |first7=Raif |title=Primary immunodeficiency diseases: An update |url=https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(04)01747-6/fulltext}}</ref> ||
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| 1970 || Policy || [[w:World Health Organization|WHO]] recognizes {{w|Ayurveda}} as a health science and as a traditional health system.<ref>{{cite web |title=Globalization and Alternative Medicines |url=http://www.globalization101.org/globalization-and-alternative-medicines-2/ |website=globalization101.org |accessdate=8 October 2018}}</ref> || {{w|India}}
