WHA78: Key decisions advancing the global NCD and mental health agenda ahead of HLM4
Announcing the 2025 release of the DORIS tool to strengthen cause of death coding and reporting using ICD-11
Global momentum on primary health care: Time to unite
Neglected tropical diseases further neglected due to ODA cuts
Global health leaders urge action on immunization priorities at Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly
One year in detention: heads of United Nations agencies and INGOs renew demand for release of staff detained in northern Yemen
WHO launches a country-led, interactive platform for strengthening strategic planning to end TB
WHA78: Traditional medicine takes centre stage
WHO Director-General: Member States reaffirm commitment to WHO and global health at historic World Health Assembly
Uganda achieves 92% coverage in accelerated yellow fever vaccination campaign
WHO outlines recommendations to protect infants against RSV – respiratory syncytial virus
WHO calls for urgent action to ban flavoured tobacco and nicotine products
Experts and officials show strong support for WHO's Traditional Medicine Strategy
Malawi Secures Gains Against Polio, Strengthens Health Systems for the Future
Initiative to mainstream behavioural insights concludes in four African pilot countries
WHO, Africa CDC and RKI expand implementation of a unique partnership to strengthen collaborative surveillance in Africa
Road safety takes centre stage at world’s leading transport forum
Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly concludes: historic outcomes, consequential highlights
WHO announces the development of recommendations on doxycycline prophylaxis for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections
Member States endorse World Prematurity Day as official global health campaign
WHO, ITU, WIPO showcase a new report on AI use in traditional medicine
WHO establishes communities of practice for pathogen genomics surveillance
WHO Member States hold first meeting, agree on next steps to take forward key elements of the WHO Pandemic Agreement
Fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox 2024
WHO Academy and the City of Lyon: a strategic collaboration for global health
WHO launches new foundational helping skills training manual to strengthen mental health support
WHO, UNICEF update country tracker on water, sanitation and hygiene in health-care facilities, showing progress across 107 countries
New website on cholera control goes live
WHO welcomes IMF support to Jordan for pandemic preparedness and response
Readout on WHO participation in global nuclear emergency exercise
WHO launches bold push to raise health taxes and save millions of lives
WHO supporting countries of the Global Alliance to end AIDS in children and adolescents by 2030
WHO-backed integrated testing model strengthens response to mpox, HIV, and syphilis
New digital tool to support self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy
WHO wraps up participation in global nuclear emergency exercise
Suriname certified malaria-free by WHO
Social connection linked to improved health and reduced risk of early death
Partners unite to launch WHO Disability Health Equity
WHO Scientific advisory group issues report on origins of COVID-19
The use of semaglutide medicines and risk of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)