Online public hearing to help inform the scope of the WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community based health worker programmes
New survey investigates levels of resistance to essential TB drugs
New strategies to end violence against children
5 reasons to support WHO’s global response to Zika virus
New leishmaniasis country profiles based on routine surveillance data
Introducing the Civil Society Taskforce:
WHO announces head of new Health Emergencies Programme
Report on public consultation on Framework on integrated people-centred health services
Religious communities unite to address leprosy-associated stigmatization and discrimination
WHO welcomes support from Gavi for malaria vaccine pilot programme
WHO update and clarification on recent MERS cases reported by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
WHO to implement online epidemiological surveillance for leishmaniasis
WHO confirms antiretroviral therapy reduces the risk of life-threatening HIV-related infections
Lower doses of yellow fever vaccine could be used in emergencies
WHO/PAHO and partners set out Zika strategic response plan for the next 18 months
Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem
WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB meets in Geneva
Letter to malaria partners (June 2016)
WHO statement on the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR(2005)) Emergency Committee on Zika virus and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations
Dracunculiasis eradication: WHO ready to verify Kenya and Sudan
Measles deaths in Africa plunge by 91%
Efforts on child-appropriate medicines intensify
Aggressive TB control can yield big economic gains, says new study
Home treatment of pneumonia safe and effective, finds study
New study estimates 151 000 violent Iraqi deaths since 2003 invasion
WHO Executive Board opens on optimistic note
New report on global tobacco control efforts
New survey finds highest rates of drug-resistant TB to date
Global forum calls for urgent action to resolve health worker crisis
Progress in TB diagnosis and control slowing, says new report
Poor sanitation threatens public health
Lack of new antibiotics threatens global efforts to contain drug-resistant infections
Somalia is again polio-free
WHO welcomes Noguchi awards for service to public health
Climate change will erode foundations of health
Monitoring AIDS treatment by physical symptoms is effective
Disease outbreak prevention crucial in China earthquake aftermath
Noncommunicable diseases now biggest killers
World Health Assembly opens
World Health Assembly sets bold new action for WHO
