Improved detection of drug resistant TB using genetic and culture-based laboratory methods
HH Pope Francis and WHO Director-General: Health is a right and not a privilege
Pool of MERS experts for deployment established by WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
WHO stakeholder consultation to enable implementation of Unitaid supported innovative LTBI and childhood TB projects
First-ever targeted roadmap outlines steps to scale-up public-private health sector engagement to end TB
Finding the Missing People with TB: Overview of Progress - Global Fund Strategic Initiative meeting
Making history: WHO Director-General announces Memorandum of Understanding between Inter-Parliamentary Union and WHO
Sweden and WHO: Delivering health where it is needed most
Statement on the October 2018 meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Interagency statement calls for the elimination of “virginity-testing”
WHO launches ACTIVE: a toolkit for countries to increase physical activity and reduce noncommunicable diseases
United Nations agencies call for ban on virginity testing
Germany contributes 115 million EUR to WHO to reach global health goals
Global health organizations commit to new ways of working together for greater impact
Third Global Conference on Health and Climate Change
Mycetoma: WHO calls for development of better prevention tools and diagnostics
Working for Health up and running in Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal and Sri Lanka
UN General Assembly adopts Declaration of the first-ever United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB
Working to safeguard the health, well-being and human rights of adolescents with WHO guidelines
New WHO guidance on non-clinical interventions specifically designed to reduce unnecessary caesarean sections
Dr Maria Neira nominated an “inspirational” women
WHO and US EPA sign new Memorandum of Understanding on environmental health cooperation
World Cities Day
22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22)
Brazil and Venezuela sign agreement to accelerate cross-border health interventions and interrupt transmission of onchocerciasis
Stop tobacco industry exploitation of children and young people
First rituximab similar biotherapeutic products prequalified
World Toilet Day 2016
Countries, partners and civil society pledge to scale up engagement of private and unlinked public health providers to close gaps in access to quality TB care
A Joint Statement on medical certificates of seafarers, ship sanitation certificates and medical care of seafarers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
WHO announces new TB Supranational Reference Laboratory in the African Region
More can be done to restrict sunbeds to prevent increasing rates of skin cancer
UN Climate Change and WHO Team Up to Protect Health from Climate Change at COP23
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ENGAGE-TB pilot projects in five countries
WHO’s Revamped Civil Society Task Force Determines Priority Actions to End TB
100 millionth person receives lifesaving meningitis vaccine
Maternal health in Nigeria: generating information for action
COVID-19 intensifies the urgency to expand sustainable energy solutions worldwide
The World Health Organization, UN Foundation and Illumination partner on health messages