Women and diabetes: Our right to a healthy future On World Diabetes Day 2017, WHO joins partners around the world to highlight women’s...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development today. For World Antibiotic Awareness...

Today, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23), WHO, in collaboration with the UN Climate Change secretariat and in...

Up to 400 000 people remain besieged in eastern Ghouta in Rural Damascus, where they face deteriorating humanitarian, health, and...

WHO is recommending that farmers and the food industry stop using antibiotics routinely to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy...

Access to the latest information is vital for today's health workers, but in places where resources are constrained, getting it can be...

This year plague came early to Madagascar and spread quickly. When it began to move out from the areas where it traditionally occurs,...

World Hepatitis Summit 2017 calls for accelerated action to eliminate viral hepatitis On the eve of the World Hepatitis Summit in Brazil,...

In Nigeria’s Borno State, malaria is currently claiming more lives than all other diseases combined. Children under the age of 5 are...

Global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have saved an estimated 53 million lives since 2000 and reduced the TB mortality rate by 37%,...