Both these institutions have backed strict population-control measures in the Philippines so that the nation can meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.
Strict infection-control measures and prudent antibiotic use have let hospitals in the Netherlands avoid the resistant staph strains that plague most U.S. hospitals.
Other Iranian officials have stressed in the past few days that the country's common border with Afghanistan was under strictcontrol and Taleban fighters would be arrested if they entered Iran.