Dr. Nakajima, 63, has headed the Geneva-based agency for five years.

The UN Information Service at Geneva offers lectures by UN staff members on the UN in general and the work of the Geneva-based specialized agencies.

It is the first time that W.H.O. has removed any H.I.V. drug from its list, Lembit Rago, an official of the Geneva-based agency, said yesterday.

Inflation was higher in 28 industrialized and developing countries in 1990 than it was the year before, according to a survey released today by the International Labor Organization, a Geneva-based agency.

The World Health Organization, a Geneva-based agency of the United Nations, estimates that as many as 10 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus.

In 1980, the World Health Organization, a Geneva-based agency of the United Nations, certified the worldwide eradication of smallpox, a viral disease that had killed one in four victims.

The Geneva-based agency is coordinating activities for the International Year for the World's Indigenous People, which 1993 has been designated by the General Assembly.

The Geneva-based agency said it was taking steps to prepare the vaccine as a precautionary measure in case the virus mutates and starts spreading from person to person.

The Geneva-based agency said the refugees, pushed out of their homes by fighting in northeast Afghanistan, are marooned on islands and peninsulas in the Panj River that marks the border with Tajikistan.

On February 9, Washington complained to the Geneva-based agency that Japan was failing to comply with an international accord to protect foreign music copyrights.