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3 August 2017
Departmental update

Neglected tropical diseases course now accessible via eLearning

1 August 2017
News release

Babies and mothers worldwide failed by lack of investment in breastfeeding

31 July 2017
Departmental update

Tonga eliminates lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem

27 July 2017
Medical product alert

Medical Product Alert N°2/2017: Falsified Quinine Sulphate

27 July 2017
Departmental update

Countries agree next steps to combat global health threat by MERS-CoV

27 July 2017
News release

Eliminate hepatitis: WHO

26 July 2017
Statement

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake, WFP Executive Director, David Beasley and WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, following their joint visit to Yemen

21 July 2017
Departmental update

Cameroon investigates yaws outbreak among indigenous populations

20 July 2017
News release

WHO urges action against HIV drug resistance threat

19 July 2017
News release

WHO report finds dramatic increase in life-saving tobacco control policies in last decade

17 July 2017
News release

WHO estimates cost of reaching global health targets by 2030

17 July 2017
News release

1 in 10 infants worldwide did not receive any vaccinations in 2016

15 July 2017
News release

WHO to develop Essential Diagnostics List

13 July 2017
Departmental update

85 million people treated for trachoma through expanded access to medicine

12 July 2017
News release

2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as many lack safe sanitation

11 July 2017
Departmental update

Countries need to do what works to improve contraceptive access, provision and choice for women and girls

11 July 2017
Departmental update

WHO child health programme dries tears in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

10 July 2017
Departmental update

G20 leaders make historic commitment to combat AMR and TB in Declaration

7 July 2017
News release

Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea on the rise, new drugs needed

5 July 2017
Departmental update

Canine rabies: South Africa uses instant messaging for daily mapping and dissemination of cases

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2 July 2007
News release

New global effort to eliminate Chagas disease

6 July 2007
News release

2.5 million people in India living with HIV, according to new estimates

6 July 2007
News release

New guidelines adopted on smoke-free environments

16 July 2007
News release

Governments make progress in interpersonal violence prevention

19 July 2007
News release

Countries urged to be more vigilant about food safety

24 July 2007
News release

China and India join WHO clinical trial registry platform

8 December 2010
News release

Agreement reached on providing health care to displaced Iraqis

13 March 2020
News release

WHO, UN Foundation and partners launch first-of-its-kind COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

7 June 2017
Departmental update

Hepatitis A outbreaks mostly affecting men who have sex with men – European Region and the Americas

12 March 2020
Departmental update

Mid-term review of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition

28 July 2019
Departmental update

15 million people affected with hepatitis B and C in Pakistan: Government announces ambitious plan to eliminate hepatitis

3 July 2019
Departmental update

WHO announces Guidelines Development Group for updated guidelines on the public health response for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus infection

15 June 2008
Departmental update

Monitoring of drug efficacy in large scale treatment programmes for Human helminthiasis

15 September 2010
Departmental update

Over 1.2 million school-aged children, representing more than 90% of estimated eligible population, treated for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases in 2010 in Sierra Leone

18 March 2013
Departmental update

Brazilian school-based deworming and leprosy case-finding campaign targets more than 9 million children

4 June 2013
Departmental update

Yemen treats 9.6 million people for bilharzia and intestinal worms in two record-breaking 4-day public health campaigns

16 April 2003
News release

Update 31 - Coronavirus never before seen in humans is the cause of SARS

28 March 2018
Departmental update

WHO remembers Dr Carlo Urbani as a hero who fought SARS

6 August 2015
Departmental update

WHO advisory body upholds continued deworming of children against soil-transmitted helminthiases

10 February 2016
Departmental update

World’s largest deworming campaign targets 270 million children in one day

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