Poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels, according to a new joint...

Audio file A new formulation of a drug to prevent excessive bleeding following childbirth could save thousands of women’s lives in low-...

The Emergency Communications officers had been dispatched to support routine health messaging before a major international football...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is today releasing its new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). The ICD is the...

An ageing population Around 1 in 6 older people (141 million people) experienced some form of abuse in the community during the past...

Every year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day. The event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today certified Paraguay as having eliminated malaria, the first country in the Americas to be...

RKI / Thomas Kratz May 31 2018: A view of part of the village of Itipo in Iboko health zone, where WHO has set up a camp along with...

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is today joining Prime Minister António Costa of Portugal to launch the new "WHO...

A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Independent High-level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) calls for...