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%,...

In 2016, an estimated 90 000 people died from measles – an 84% drop from more than 550 000 deaths in 2000 – according to a new report...

An Afghan health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a polio vaccination campaign. WHO “We need to focus on leaving...