New research highlights risks of separating newborns from mothers during COVID-19 pandemic
New research from WHO and partners shows that the COVID-19 pandemic is severely affecting the quality of care given to...
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Devastatingly pervasive: 1 in 3 women globally experience violence
Violence against women remains devastatingly pervasive and starts alarmingly young, shows new data from WHO and partners. Across their lifetime,...
How WHO transforms funding into action in regions around the world
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, WHO remains active on many fronts–from delivering equipment and issuing guidelines, to fighting misinformation and...
WHO lists two additional COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use and COVAX roll-out
Today WHO listed two versions of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light for these vaccines...
In the COVID-19 vaccine race, we either win together or lose together
Of the 128 million vaccine doses administered so far, more than three quarters of those vaccinations are in just 10...
The Moderna COVID-19 (mRNA-1273) vaccine: what you need to know
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...
Emergency Committee on COVID-19 advises on variants, vaccines
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), according to the WHO Emergency Committee...
Who can take the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine?
According to SAGE, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is safe and effective. Nevertheless, there are specific populations for whom vaccination...
WHO issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine and emphasizes need for equitable global access
The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the...
WHO recommends against the use of remdesivir in COVID-19 patients
WHO has issued a conditional recommendation against the use of remdesivir in hospitalized patients, regardless of disease severity, as there...
A cervical cancer-free future: First-ever global commitment to eliminate a cancer
WHO‘s Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, launched today, outlines three key steps: vaccination, screening and treatment....
How WHO is working to track down the animal reservoir of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
The introduction of a new virus to the human population is one of the greatest mysteries an epidemiologist can hope...
UNICEF and WHO call for emergency action to avert major measles and polio epidemics
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 and Wikimedia Foundation expand access to trusted information about COVID-19 on Wikipedia
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers Wikipedia, announced today a collaboration to expand...
WHO and Disney Junior’s «Doc McStuffins» team up to remind young kids to wash their hands
WHO and Disney Junior have joined forces to remind children around the world of the importance of thorough handwashing in...
The race for a COVID-19 vaccine
The world is in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic. As WHO and partners work together on the response --...
New COVID-19 Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for the global COVID-19 response
Launching today, the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to...
A guide to WHO’s guidance
During health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic, one of WHO’s most vital roles is to gather data and research from...
Global scientific community unites to track progress on COVID-19 R&D, identifies new research priorities and critical gaps
The World Health Organization held a two half-day virtual summit on 1 and 2 July, to take stock of the...
Responding to a measles outbreak during the COVID-19 pandemic
On a sunny day in May, Bun Sreng Sineth and other immunization staff set up an immunization site in a...
Basic Psychosocial Skills: A Guide for COVID-19 Responders
This Guide aims to help orient people supporting the COVID-19 response to integrate psychosocial support skills into their daily work,...
The World Health Organization, UN Foundation and Illumination partner on health messages
WHO, the United Nations Foundation and Illumination have partnered to launch a Public Service Announcement (PSA) that reinforces safe and healthy practices...
Smithsonian Science Education Center With Support of the World Health Organization Launches New COVID-19 Guide for Youth
The Smithsonian Science Education Center, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)—a partnership of 140...
WHO Solidarity Trial: How a Spanish doctor joined the race for a COVID-19 treatment
Dr Vicente Estrada, a Spanish infectious disease doctor, has dedicated his career to studying and fighting HIV. But when Madrid,...
Statement on the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
The third meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the coronavirus...
Global leaders unite to ensure everyone everywhere can access new vaccines, tests and treatments for COVID-19
GENEVA - Heads of state and global health leaders today made an unprecedented commitment to work together to accelerate the...
FIFA launch joint campaign to equip football community to tackle COVID-19
Geneva, 23 March 2020: FIFA, the international governing body of football, and the World Health Organization (WHO) have teamed up...
Women’s health and rights: 25 years of progress?
The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action remains the world’s most progressive blueprint for advancing gender equality worldwide. Twenty-five...
Shortage of personal protective equipment endangering health workers worldwide
The World Health Organization has warned that severe and mounting disruption to the global supply of personal protective equipment (PPE)...
US$675 million needed for new coronavirus preparedness and response global plan
To fight further spread of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in China and globally, and protect states with weaker health...
WHO declares the new coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
The second meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding...
Statement on the meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
The meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding the...
Urgent health challenges for the next decade
As a new year and a new decade kick off, WHO is releasing a list of urgent, global health challenges....
Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020
Nurses and midwives play a vital role in providing health services. These are the people who devote their lives to...
WHO launches new report on global tobacco use trends
For the first time, the World Health Organization projects that the number of males using tobacco is on the decline,...
Keeping the promise to the women who will deliver universal health coverage
Women have always played a vital leadership role in their communities as traditional healers, keepers of medicinal recipes, carers of...
More than 140,000 die from measles as cases surge worldwide
Worldwide more than 140,000 people died from measles in 2018, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Dead and injured following attacks on Ebola responders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Two attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have killed 4 workers responding to the Ebola outbreak and...
New WHO-led study says majority of adolescents worldwide are not sufficiently physically active, putting their current and future health at risk
The first ever global trends for adolescent insufficient physical activity show that urgent action is needed to increase physical activity...
