World Health Organization

WHO and Switzerland have announced the renewal of their cooperation strategy for the period 2024-2028. In 2013, Switzerland became the first...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today designated the Digital Ethics Centre at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands as a WHO...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the recommendations for the viral composition of influenza vaccines for the 2025–2026 in...

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

What started as a grassroots initiative by a WHO staff member has grown into a global movement for health. Building on the success of the 1...

The emergency polio outbreak response in the Gaza Strip is continuing, with a mass vaccination campaign scheduled from 22 to 26 February 202...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have commenced distribution of critically-needed childhood can...

The recent surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has led to significant loss of life, trauma, displacement, and...

Female genital mutilation is a violation of human rights that inflicts deep and lifelong physical, emotional and psychological scars on girl...

In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first ever vaccine t...

WHO and partners have immediately boosted their support to the Ugandan government’s response to an outbreak of Sudan virus disease outbreak...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth coun...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public hea...

The World Health Organization (WHO) expresses deep concern about the implications of the immediate funding pause for HIV programmes in low-...

Following a nearly century-long effort, Georgia has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO). With today’s announc...

The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to withdraw from the organization.

The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the Gaza ceasefire, hostage and prisoner release deal, which brings hope for millions of people...

Conflict, climate change, epidemics, and displacement are converging to create an unparalleled global health crisis, with 305 million people...

On 18 December 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) prequalified the first diagnostic test for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)...

Five years ago on 31 December 2019, WHO’s Country Office in China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from...

WHO is appalled by yesterday’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, which put the last major health facility in North Gaza out of service. The syst...

Our mission to negotiate the release of the United Nations staff detainees and to assess the health and humanitarian situation in Yemen conc...

A Strategic Partnership Framework (SPF) with the Ministry of Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs and multiyear agreement with t...

A new report, entitled “Relationality in community engagement: its role in humanizing healthcare and achieving quality integrated health Ser...

The WHO Academy in Lyon, France, officially opened its doors today with a high-profile inauguration ceremony. The Academy aims to tackle the...