Walk the Talk New York: Health for All Challenge
The Walk the Talk New York: Health for All Challenge returns on Sunday, 17 September 2023 to Central Park, New York to...
The Walk the Talk New York: Health for All Challenge returns on Sunday, 17 September 2023 to Central Park, New York to...
Today the World Health Organization (WHO) published the new editions of the Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) and Essential Medicines for Children (EMLc)...
WHO has published its first global research agenda for the world’s scientists to address the most urgent human health priorities to combat...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for caution to be exercised in using artificial intelligence (AI) generated large language...
Tobacco growing harms our health, the health of farmers and the planet’s health. The tobacco industry interferes with attempts to...
On 7 April 2023 ̶ World Health Day ̶ the World Health Organization will observe its 75th anniversary. In 1948,...
On 7 April 2023 ̶ World Health Day ̶ the World Health Organization will observe its 75th anniversary. In 1948,...
On 7 April 2023 ̶ World Health Day ̶ the World Health Organization will observe its 75th birthday. In 1948,...
On 1 December, World AIDS Day 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on global leaders and citizens to...
WHO today published a report highlighting the first-ever list of fungal "priority pathogens" – a catalogue of the 19 fungi...
Outbreak at a glance On 20 September 2022, Uganda health authorities declared an outbreak of Ebola disease, caused by Sudan...
An outbreak of a disease called monkeypox is currently taking place in many countries that do not typically have cases....
The 70 shortlisted films are available to view online in six playlists, one for each of the three main competition categories:...
Last week, I learned from Jarno Habicht, WHO’s Ukraine representative, as he was receiving fresh health supplies to a warehouse...
Almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits, and threatens their health. A record...
Farmer Reginald Omulo walks between rows of healthy maize and beans, stopping to admire what he has planted. Like many...
More than half of parents and pregnant women (51%) surveyed for a new WHO/UNICEF report say they have been targeted...
Overview The World Health Organization (WHO) works with the technology industry to promote science-based content, fight misinformation, gain user...
What is HPV? Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common viral infection of the reproductive tract. Most sexually active women...
Today, the World Health Organization issued an emergency use listing (EUL) for NVX-CoV2373, expanding the basket of WHO-validated vaccines against...
On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group...
The World Health Organization and partners have issued an urgent call for concrete action to better protect health and care workers...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on people’s mental health. Some groups, including health and other frontline workers,...
“The story is about how we use the tools we have to prevent infections and save people’s lives. We have...
Global leaders attending the Global COVID-19 Summit hosted by the United States have again underlined their commitment to ensuring equitable...
Every year 703 000 people take their own life and there are many more people who attempt suicide. Every suicide is...
Emergency medical teams and other supplies and equipment will be prepared to help meet the most urgent health needs of...
NATO is stepping up deliveries of military equipment to Afghanistan as the Alliance withdraws its forces from the country. So...
Regular physical activity is key to maintaining a healthy body and mind. It can reduce high blood pressure, help manage...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its patient care guidelines to include interleukin-6 receptor blockers, a class of medicines...
COVAX was built on the principle of equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines to protect the health of people all across...
Healthcare professionals and public health authorities have a central role in discussing vaccination against COVID-19 with their patients. Vaccines play...
The World Health Organization’s 'Commit to Quit’ tobacco campaign has made resources from its Quitting Toolkit freely available to more than a billion tobacco...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Federal Republic of Germany will establish a new global hub for pandemic and...
The unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how the spread of misinformation, amplified on social media and other digital...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee and senior military advisor to the Secretary General...
COVID-19 has unfairly impacted some people more harshly than others, exacerbating existing inequities in health and welfare within and between...
The international community should work together “towards a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response” to build a more...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered devastating consequences for human life and the global economy. Maritime and air transport are...
New research from WHO and partners shows that the COVID-19 pandemic is severely affecting the quality of care given to...
Violence against women remains devastatingly pervasive and starts alarmingly young, shows new data from WHO and partners. Across their lifetime,...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, WHO remains active on many fronts–from delivering equipment and issuing guidelines, to fighting misinformation and...
Today WHO listed two versions of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light for these vaccines...
Of the 128 million vaccine doses administered so far, more than three quarters of those vaccinations are in just 10...
The WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization has issued Interim recommendations for use of the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine against COVID-19 in...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), according to the WHO Emergency Committee...
According to SAGE, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is safe and effective. Nevertheless, there are specific populations for whom vaccination...
The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the...
WHO has issued a conditional recommendation against the use of remdesivir in hospitalized patients, regardless of disease severity, as there...
WHO‘s Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, launched today, outlines three key steps: vaccination, screening and treatment....
The introduction of a new virus to the human population is one of the greatest mysteries an epidemiologist can hope...
UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) today issued an urgent call to action to avert major measles and polio epidemics as...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers Wikipedia, announced today a collaboration to expand...
WHO and Disney Junior have joined forces to remind children around the world of the importance of thorough handwashing in...
The world is in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic. As WHO and partners work together on the response --...
Launching today, the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to...
During health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic, one of WHO’s most vital roles is to gather data and research from...
The World Health Organization held a two half-day virtual summit on 1 and 2 July, to take stock of the...
On a sunny day in May, Bun Sreng Sineth and other immunization staff set up an immunization site in a...
This Guide aims to help orient people supporting the COVID-19 response to integrate psychosocial support skills into their daily work,...
WHO, the United Nations Foundation and Illumination have partnered to launch a Public Service Announcement (PSA) that reinforces safe and healthy practices...
The Smithsonian Science Education Center, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)—a partnership of 140...
Dr Vicente Estrada, a Spanish infectious disease doctor, has dedicated his career to studying and fighting HIV. But when Madrid,...
The third meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the coronavirus...
GENEVA - Heads of state and global health leaders today made an unprecedented commitment to work together to accelerate the...
Geneva, 23 March 2020: FIFA, the international governing body of football, and the World Health Organization (WHO) have teamed up...
The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action remains the world’s most progressive blueprint for advancing gender equality worldwide. Twenty-five...
The World Health Organization has warned that severe and mounting disruption to the global supply of personal protective equipment (PPE)...
To fight further spread of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in China and globally, and protect states with weaker health...
The second meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding...
The meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding the...
As a new year and a new decade kick off, WHO is releasing a list of urgent, global health challenges....
Nurses and midwives play a vital role in providing health services. These are the people who devote their lives to...
For the first time, the World Health Organization projects that the number of males using tobacco is on the decline,...
Women have always played a vital leadership role in their communities as traditional healers, keepers of medicinal recipes, carers of...
Worldwide more than 140,000 people died from measles in 2018, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Two attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have killed 4 workers responding to the Ebola outbreak and...
The first ever global trends for adolescent insufficient physical activity show that urgent action is needed to increase physical activity...
A technique that sterilizes male mosquitoes using radiation will soon be tested as part of global health efforts to control...
The most common symptoms of influenza (flu) include fever, a dry cough, headache, muscle and joint pain, a sore throat...
A new report by WHO offers guidance and tools for urban leaders to tackle some of the leading causes of...
In an historic announcement on World Polio Day, an independent commission of experts concluded that wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3)...
More people received life-saving treatment for tuberculosis (TB) in 2018 than ever before, largely due to improved detection and diagnosis....
Worldwide, at least 2.2 billion people are visually impaired, and over 1 billion are forced to live with preventable or...
On 4 October, the 1000th survivor of the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was released...
Today world leaders adopted a high-level United Nations Political Declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), the most comprehensive set of...
What is UHC? UHC means that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship....
Step up climate action, improve health, change lives Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and now is...
More women and their children are surviving today than ever before, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released...
13 September 2019: Millions of patients are harmed each year due to unsafe health care worldwide resulting in 2.6 million deaths...