World Health Organization

On 25 June, the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded its participation in a 36-hour nuclear emergency exercise organized by the Interna...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today has launched a major new initiative urging countries to raise real prices on tobacco, alcohol, and...

Today, Suriname became the first country in the Amazon region to receive malaria-free certification from the World Health Organization (WHO)...

The WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent, international, multidisciplinary exp...

Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025 finds that almost 92% of the world’s population now has basic access to electricity. Althoug...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World Conference on Tobacco Control...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its first-ever global guideline on the management of sickle cell disease (SCD) during pre...

Building on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin leverages innovative to...

The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today signed a new agreement an...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), following the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IH...

WHO warns that the Gaza Strip’s health system is collapsing, with Nasser Medical Complex, the most important referral hospital left in Gaza,...

This week marks one year since dozens of personnel from the United Nations, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, and diplomatic...

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the commitment shown by the Organization’s Member States which, during nearly two...

The World Health Organization (WHO), Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the gov...

The  Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly (WHA78), the annual meeting of World Health Organization’s (WHO) Member States, came to a close Tu...

Countries agree to update action plan to reduce deaths from antimicrobial resistance  The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly approved a de...

Countries overwhelmingly agree on a new voluntary target for air pollution and health  Member States at the Seventy-eighth World Health Asse...

First-ever rare diseases resolution underscores equity and inclusion Member States today adopted a landmark resolution declaring rare diseas...

New guideline calls for improved global access to controlled medicines The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a rapid communicatio...

Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displaceme...

A “health financing emergency” must drive country-led, data-driven solutionsMinisters from multiple countries hit by the abrupt cuts in exte...

World leaders pledged at least an additional US$ 170 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) at a high-level pledging event Tuesday a...

World Health Organization Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the World Health Assembly, approved a resolution that calls for the...

The Seventy-eighth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA78) will convene from 19 to 27 May 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland, under the theme...

As we make this transition to the new leadership team, I want to express my sincere appreciation for the remarkable contributions of those c...