The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today met President Xi Jinping of the...

Background: On the 31st December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) China country office reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with officials in Thailand and China following reports of confirmation of the novel...

On 31 December 2019, WHO was alerted to several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. The virus did not match any...

Safeguarding human health from climate change impacts is more urgent than ever, yet most countries are not acting fully on their own...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new recommendations to help countries reach the 8.1 million people living with HIV who are...

Today, global leaders convened at the Reaching the Last Mile (RLM) Forum in Abu Dhabi to affirm their commitment to eradicate polio and...

A technique that sterilizes male mosquitoes using radiation will soon be tested as part of global health efforts to control diseases such...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today prequalified an Ebola vaccine for the first time, a critical step that will help speed up its...

A new study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 36 countries found that two-thirds of sexually active women who wished to...