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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...

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...