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The 2024 Global Heath Expenditure Report by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that the average per capita government spending on hea...

Around 846 million people aged between 15 and 49 are living with genital herpes infections – more than 1 in 5 of this age-group globally – a...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted prequalification to the molecular diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) called Xpert® MTB/RI...

A large proportion of healthcare-associated infections can be prevented with improved IPC practices and basic water, sanitation and hygiene...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the second meeting of the International Hea...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners announced 10 projects that will receive almost US$ 2 million in grants to improve capacitie...

 Delegations from over 110 countries are coming together to produce national roadmaps and negotiate a joint declaration on oral health at th...

Since 7 October 2023, 47% of attacks on health care – 65 out of 137 – have proven fatal to at least one health worker or patient in Lebanon,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) for the LC16m8 mpox vaccine, making it the second mpox vaccine t...

The first-ever Investment Round of the World Health Organization (WHO) reached a culminating moment during the G20 Leaders' Summit today in...

As world leaders arrive in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the G20 Summit this weekend, the city’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue will be ill...

Worldwide, there were an estimated 10.3 million cases of measles in 2023, a 20% increase from 2022, according to new estimates from the Worl...

The number of adults living with diabetes worldwide has surpassed 800 million, more than quadrupling since 1990, according to new data relea...

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) announced today an important grant allocation of US$ 10 million to WHO to implement the Health Impact In...

More than 100 governments today made historic commitments to end childhood violence, including nine pledging to ban corporal punishment – an...

Ahead of the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference in Baku (COP29), the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for an end to reliance on fossil f...

The second round of the polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip was completed yesterday, with an overall 556 774 children under the age...

A new World Health Organization (WHO) study published today in eBioMedicine names 17 pathogens that regularly cause diseases in communities...

The World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) and the World Health Organization concluded the first in-person Global Model WHO...

 We the leaders of 15 United Nations and humanitarian organizations urge, yet again, all parties fighting in Gaza to protect civilians, and...