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...
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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...
Mosquito sterilization offers new opportunity to control chikungunya, dengue, and Zika
A technique that sterilizes male mosquitoes using radiation will soon be tested as part of global health efforts to control...
Five simple steps to protect against flu
The most common symptoms of influenza (flu) include fever, a dry cough, headache, muscle and joint pain, a sore throat...
New ways to tackle leading causes of urban deaths
A new report by WHO offers guidance and tools for urban leaders to tackle some of the leading causes of...
Two out of three wild poliovirus strains eradicated
In an historic announcement on World Polio Day, an independent commission of experts concluded that wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3)...
7 million people receive record levels of lifesaving TB treatment but 3 million still miss out
More people received life-saving treatment for tuberculosis (TB) in 2018 than ever before, largely due to improved detection and diagnosis....
At least 2.2 billion people are blind or visually impaired, find out why
Worldwide, at least 2.2 billion people are visually impaired, and over 1 billion are forced to live with preventable or...
1000 survivors: Harnessing Hope to End an Ebola Outbreak
On 4 October, the 1000th survivor of the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was released...
WHO welcomes landmark UN declaration on universal health coverage
Today world leaders adopted a high-level United Nations Political Declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), the most comprehensive set of...
Universal health coverage (UHC)
What is UHC? UHC means that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship....
United Nations Climate Action Summit
Step up climate action, improve health, change lives Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and now is...
More women and children survive today than ever before – UN report
More women and their children are surviving today than ever before, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released...
WHO calls for urgent action to reduce patient harm in healthcare
13 September 2019: Millions of patients are harmed each year due to unsafe health care worldwide resulting in 2.6 million deaths...
