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| 1973 || Growth || [[w:World Health Organization|WHO]] celebrates its 25th anniversary with 138 member states.<ref name="Leadership Change in the World Health Organization: Potential for Increased Effectiveness?"/> ||
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| 1974 || Program || [[w:World Health Organization|WHO]] creates the {{w|Expanded Program on Immunization}} (EPI), a worldwide effort mobilized to help countries increase immunization coverage of basic childhood vaccines —vaccines—{{w|diphtheria}}, {{w|measles}}, {{w|pertussis}}, {{w|polio}}, {{w|tetanus}}, and {{w|tuberculosis}}— using —using the third dose of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP3) as a measure of progress.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shen |first1=Angela K. |last2=Clay |first2=Robert |last3=Pablos-Mendez |first3=Ariel |title=Global Immunization through the Lens of Development |doi=10.1177/00333549141295S302 |pmid=25100884 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4121879/ |pmc=4121879}}</ref> ||
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| 1975 || Policy || [[w:World Health Organization|WHO]] introduces the global concept of essential medicines as those that meet the health needs of the majority of the population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Toward Sustainable Access to Medicines. (MDS-3: Managing Access to Medicines and Health Technologies, Chapter 1) |url=http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js19578en/ |website=apps.who.int |accessdate=8 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Albert |first1=Michael A |last2=Fretheim |first2=Atle |last3=Maïga |first3=Diadié |title=Factors influencing the utilization of research findings by health policy-makers in a developing country: the selection of Mali's essential medicines |doi=10.1186/1478-4505-5-2 |pmid=17338810 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1820594/ |pmc=1820594}}</ref> ||
