Groundbreaking Ebola vaccination trial launches today in Uganda
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:39:24 Z
In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
WHO and partners enable access to candidate vaccine and treatments for outbreak of Sudan Ebola virus disease in Uganda
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:00:19 Z
WHO and partners have immediately boosted their support to the Ugandan government’s respons...
WHO verifies Niger as the first country in the African Region to eliminate onchocerciasis
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:13:30 Z
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocercias...
Guinea eliminates human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:26:42 Z
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human...
WHO statement on potential global threat to people living with HIV
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:19:43 Z
The World Health Organization (WHO) expresses deep concern about the implications of the immediat...
Georgia certified malaria-free by WHO
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:47:07 Z
Following a nearly century-long effort, Georgia has been certified malaria-free by the World Heal...
WHO comments on United States' announcement of intent to withdraw
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:04:49 Z
The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to ...
The ceasefire in Gaza brings hope, but immense challenges lie ahead to restore the health system
Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:33:18 Z
The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the Gaza ceasefire, hostage and prisoner release dea...
WHO launches US$ 1.5 billion Health Emergency Appeal to tackle unprecedented global health crises
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:14:20 Z
Conflict, climate change, epidemics, and displacement are converging to create an unparalleled gl...
WHO prequalifies diagnostic test to support safer administration of P. vivax malaria treatments
Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:56:44 Z
On 18 December 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) prequalified the first diagnostic test f...
Milestone: COVID-19 five years ago
Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:15:51 Z
Five years ago on 31 December 2019, WHO’s Country Office in China picked up a media st...
Kamal Adwan Hospital out of service following a raid yesterday and repeated attacks since October
Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:04:46 Z
WHO is appalled by yesterday’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, which put the last major he...
Statement by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General on the attack on the Sana'a airport, Yemen
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:01:57 Z
Our mission to negotiate the release of the United Nations staff detainees and to assess the heal...
Luxembourg and WHO sign two strategic agreements
Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:44:44 Z
A Strategic Partnership Framework (SPF) with the Ministry of Development Cooperation and Humanitaria...
Statement on the antigen composition of COVID-19 vaccines
Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:00:11 Z
Key points: Vaccination remains an important public health countermeasure ...
Lebanon: soaring needs for trauma treatment and rehabilitation
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:49:14 Z
The ceasefire and the cessation of hostilities took effect on 27 November, offering temporary rel...
President Macron, WHO Director-General, and global health leaders inaugurate WHO Academy in Lyon
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:44:09 Z
The WHO Academy in Lyon, France, officially opened its doors today with a high-profile inauguration ...
New WHO report reveals governments deprioritizing health spending
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:08:01 Z
The 2024 Global Heath Expenditure Report b...
Over 1 in 5 adults worldwide has a genital herpes infection – WHO
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:27:03 Z
Around 846 million people aged between 15 and 49 are living with genital herpes infections &ndash...
Reinvigorated global efforts needed to curb rising malaria threat
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:02:01 Z
New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that an estimated 2.2 billion cases of mala...
Drowning deaths decline globally but the most vulnerable remain at risk
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:27:14 Z
WHO publishes its first-ever report on drowning prevention, which reveals a 38% drop in the global d...
WHO announces first prequalification of a tuberculosis diagnostic test
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:20:12 Z
The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted prequalification to the molecular diagnostic test...
New report highlights need for sustained investment in infection prevention and control programmes
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:40:50 Z
A large proportion of healthcare-associated infections can be prevented with improved IPC practices ...
Second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox 2024
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:15:42 Z
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of ...
International Pathogen Surveillance Network announces first recipients of grants to better understand disease threats
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:10:30 Z
The World Health Or...