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26 January 2018
Departmental update

WHO Executive Board recommends resolution on snakebite envenoming to World Health Assembly

26 January 2018
Departmental update

Leprosy: world focused on ending transmission among children

24 January 2018
Departmental update

WHO releases new handbook on digital technologies to support TB treatment adherence

19 January 2018
Departmental update

Global burn registry released to the public

18 January 2018
Departmental update

New series published to support the use of qualitative research in decision-making

17 January 2018
Departmental update

WHO leadership meets with TB civil society to strengthen engagement in accelerating the End TB response

16 January 2018
Departmental update

Obituary Dr Cherubala Pathayapurayil Ramachandran, 1936–2019

15 January 2018
Departmental update

WHO issues a position statement on the use of delamanid for MDR-TB following an expedited review of phase III clinical trial results

15 January 2018
Departmental update

WHO announces new rabies recommendations

11 January 2018
Departmental update

Short period of postoperative bladder catheterization effective for repair of simple urinary fistula

10 January 2018
News release

UN Environment and WHO agree to major collaboration on environmental health risks

8 January 2018
Note for Media

Dr Carissa Etienne elected for a second term as WHO Regional Director for the Americas

8 January 2018
News release

WHO Director-General: invest in health to end plague in Madagascar

3 January 2018
Departmental update

Typhoid vaccine prequalified

1 January 2018
Country mission

Strengthening the resilience of the Mozambique health system to climate change impacts

1 January 2018
Country mission

Delivering climate-resilient water and sanitation in Africa and Asia

29 December 2017
Statement

WHO, WFP and UNICEF: Yemen’s families cannot withstand another day of war, let alone another 1000

26 December 2017
Departmental update

Shortages of benzathine penicillin. How big is the problem? And why it matters

23 December 2017
Statement

The Director-General of the World Health Organization welcomes the appointment of Henrietta H Fore as Executive Director of UNICEF

22 December 2017
Departmental update

Year-End Greeting from the new Director of the WHO Global TB Programme - Dr Tereza Kasaeva

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25 February 2003
Departmental update

Feeding hope: nutrition plays key role in HIV/AIDS care

1 March 2003
Departmental update

Agreement reached on global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

12 March 2003
Departmental update

WHO issues a global alert about cases of atypical pneumonia

15 March 2003
Departmental update

World Health Organization issues emergency travel advisory

19 March 2003
Departmental update

WHO releases new tool to boost access to quality medicines and detect counterfeits

24 March 2003
Departmental update

WHO reports 10 million TB patients successfully treated under “DOTS” 10 years after declaring TB a Global Emergency

29 March 2003
Departmental update

Iraq needs $325 million for emergency health care, says World Health Organization

2 April 2003
Departmental update

SARS outbreak WHO investigation team moves to Guangdong China New travel advice announced

3 April 2003
Departmental update

Global cancer rates could increase by 50% to 15 million by 2020

7 April 2003
Departmental update

WHO calls for urgent and concerted international action to prevent 5 million children’s deaths annually from environmental hazards

7 April 2003
Departmental update

WHO Director-General calls India ‘number 1’ polio eradication priority

30 March 2020
Departmental update

World TB Day 2020 Newsletter

25 April 2003
Departmental update

Malaria is alive and well and killing more than 3000 African children every day

29 March 2020
Statement

Information sharing on COVID-19

21 May 2014
Departmental update

WHO signs Memorandum of Understanding with China and Zanzibar for collaboration on schistosomiasis elimination in Zanzibar

12 December 2013
Departmental update

Yemen bilharzia infection levels drop by more than half

2 September 2013
Departmental update

Sudan intensifies its fight against schistosomiasis through large-scale treatment of school-age children

12 February 2013
Departmental update

New agreement expands access to schistosomiasis treatment for millions

10 May 2012
Departmental update

Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: more than 9 million people treated in Yemen

7 March 2012
Departmental update

Zanzibar: gearing up to eliminate schistosomiasis

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