The COP Presidency’s High-Level Event on Health: Health Actions for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement
Ministry of Health, WHO experts highlight results of life-saving programme for children under five
Director-General rescinds Goodwill Ambassador appointment
Malaria campaign saving young lives in Nigeria
WHO supports containment of rare virus on Uganda-Kenya border
Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused
7 000 newborns die every day, despite steady decrease in under-five mortality, new report says
Suspected cases from Seychelles test negative for plague
Governments commit to reduce suffering and deaths from noncommunicable diseases
Dr Mahmoud Fikri
WHO supports the immunization of 874 000 people against yellow fever in Nigeria
WHO launches new violence prevention resource
Results from the STREAM stage 1 randomised controlled trial for treatment of MDR-TB using a standardised shorter regimen
Attack on vaccines sets back immunization efforts in eastern Syrian Arab Republic
TB partners launch first roadmap to jointly stop the transmission of bovine and zoonotic tuberculosis
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros appoints Cook Islands’ Elizabeth Iro as WHO’s Chief Nursing Officer
Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades: new study by Imperial College London and WHO
WHO to establish high-level commission on noncommunicable diseases
Target product profiles for the diagnosis of Taenia solium published
“We’re doctors but we’re also human”: helping Syrian health workers handle severe stress
Concerted global action is the only answer to rising cancer deaths
WHO recommends close disease surveillance in flood affected areas in Sri Lanka
WHO and ILO launch "guidelines for workplace TB control activities", bringing new hope to millions in the workforce
New global alliance brings food fortification to world’s poor
Twenty-eight countries and the European Community sign tobacco treaty at first opportunity
WHO meets with food, beverage and producer Associations on diet and chronic diseases
Delegates welcome the draft immunization vision and strategy and the global strategy to defeat meningitis by 2030
New initiative to research and develop drugs for the world’s most neglected diseases
Urgent call to improve survival of millions of children
UN Food and Trade Standards Commission opens meeting to adopt new standards for some foods and revise others
Global burn registry released to the public
Failure to take prescribed medicine for chronic diseases is a massive, world-wide problem
WHO calls for urgent injection of supplies and funds to combat mounting health crisis in Liberia
SARS outbreak contained worldwide
Codex Alimentarius Commission adopts more than 50 new food standards
WHO calls for widespread free access to anti-TB drugs for people living with HIV
LEE Jong-wook takes office as WHO Director-General
New WHO Director-General steps up global polio eradication effort as Polio threatens other countries
Global Cancer Alliance calls on Cancer Control community to put words into action and save millions of lives
New WHO Director-General urges countries to sign Tobacco Convention
