Reported measles cases spiked in 2017, as multiple countries experienced severe and protracted outbreaks of the disease. This is...

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO has completed a series of meetings with President Juncker and senior European...

Reductions in malaria cases have stalled after several years of decline globally, according to the new World malaria report 2018. To get...

New measures to overcome challenges in the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are having a...

Every day around 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years (1.8 billion children) breathe air that is so polluted it puts...

The Director-General of WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has met with His Holiness Pope Francis to discuss ways to ensure that all...

Virginity testing — a gynecological examination conducted under the belief that it determines whether a woman or girl has had vaginal...

More than 306,000 people in Yemen, including over 164,000 children under the age of 15, were vaccinated against cholera as part of a...

The world will not reach the goal of universal sanitation coverage – where every person in the world has access to toilets that safely...

Children from the highest mortality countries are up to 60 times more likely to die in the first 5 years of life than those from the...