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109 storiesPublic health and medicine worldwide — sourced from WHO News.
#BeActive for the UN International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
FIFA has joined forces with the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in supporting the #BeActive campaign launched on the UN International Day of Sport for Development and Peace to encourage people…
IPA, WHO and UNICEF launch Read the World on International Children’s Book Day to support children and young people in isolation
Geronimo Stilton author to kickstart exclusive children’s book reading initiative amid COVID-19 pandemicMuch-loved children’s authors are joining an initiative to read extracts of their books to millions of children and …
WHO releases guidelines to help countries maintain essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is straining health systems worldwide. The rapidly increasing demand on health facilities and health care workers threatens to leave some health systems overstretched and unable to operate effective…
Iraq needs $325 million for emergency health care, says World Health Organization
The people of Iraq are in urgent need of better health care and their situation is deteriorating by the day. The UN has today appealed for at least $325 million in emergency funds to meet the immediate health, nutrition,…
WHO Director-General calls on G20 to Fight, Unite, and Ignite against COVID-19
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, addressed Heads of State at today’s extraordinary G20 Leaders’ Summit focused on COVID-19. He told them, “You have come together to confro…
Statue commemorates smallpox eradication
A statue commemorating the 30th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox is being unveiled today in front of the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters by the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr…
Ensuring continuity of TB services during the COVID-19 pandemic
GENEVA As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to ensure that essential health services and operations are continued to protect the lives of people with TB and other diseases or healt…
Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses
The World Health Assembly has given a powerful endorsement to new strategic directions for child and adolescent health. The strategy brings together crucial elements to reduce childhood deaths and long term disability. I…
Key step forward on International Health Rules
The global health community has taken a key step towards ensuring rapid action against future outbreaks of infectious diseases and other threats to international public health. A resolution adopted today confirms and und…
SARS outbreak contained worldwide
Today, the World Health Organization is removing Taiwan, China, from the list of areas with recent local transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Taiwan is the last area to be removed from the list. It h…
Update 31 - Coronavirus never before seen in humans is the cause of SARS
Today, the World Health Organization announced that a new pathogen, a member of the coronavirus family never before seen in humans, is the cause of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The speed at which this virus…
End in sight, but flare-ups likely in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Remarks by Dr Ibrahima Socé Fall, World Health Organization Assistant Director-General, Emergency Response Good afternoon. I hope that your busy week was interrupted, like mine, with a moment of joy on Tuesday.That momen…
Shortage of personal protective equipment endangering health workers worldwide
WHO calls on industry and governments to increase manufacturing by 40 per cent to meet rising global demandThe World Health Organization has warned that severe and mounting disruption to the global supply of personal pro…
Global leaders intensify commitment to prevent leading childhood killer - measles
Measles strategy works – Now it must expand to more countriesCape Town Measles Declaration pledges to cut measles deaths by half By 2005, almost half a million children will be saved every year if there are expanded effo…
International spread of disease threatens public health security
More than at any previous time in history, global public health security depends on international cooperation and the willingness of all countries to act effectively in tackling new and emerging threats. That is the clea…
WHO calls on malaria-endemic countries to strengthen monitoring of antimalarial drug efficacy
WHO is calling on countries to be increasingly vigilant in monitoring antimalarial drug efficacy in order to allow for early detection of artemisinin resistance.1 This is one among several conclusions of the Global repor…
Landmark agreement improves global preparedness for influenza pandemics
After a week of negotiations continued through Friday night and into Saturday morning, an open-ended working-group meeting of Member States successfully agreed upon a framework to ensure that in a pandemic, influenza vir…
Dead and injured following attacks on Ebola responders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Two attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have killed 4 workers responding to the Ebola outbreak and injured 5 others.
Health in all policies: the case of air pollution, urban health and sustainability
WHO concluded the successful Health in All Policies (HiAP) Workshop: The case of air pollution, urban health and sustainability. This was the 21st workshop in the Global WHO Training and Capacity Building Programme on Hi…
Major milestone for WHO-supported Ebola vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announcement recommending a conditional marketing authorization for the rVSV-ZEBOV-GP vaccine, which has been shown to be effective in prot…