Amid concern over drug resistance, Mekong countries call for accelerated action to eliminate malaria before 2030
Stop overuse and misuse of antibiotics: combat resistance
World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros appoints Cook Islands’ Elizabeth Iro as WHO’s Chief Nursing Officer
Countries pledge to fund priority public health services; make medicines, the health workforce and food safer
Regional health leaders target elimination of: measles and rubella; HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis in babies
Health leaders gather in Australia for World Health Organization’s top regional decision-making body
World Health Organization and Australia forge new strategic partnership
Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic wipe out trachoma—leading infectious cause of blindness
The 68th session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Committee Meeting for the Western Pacific (RCM68)
Progress on Early Essential Newborn Care in the Western Pacific Region, but millions of newborn infants remain at risk
Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 23 May 2026
Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 22 May 2026
First meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the epidemic of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda 2026 – Temporary recommendations
World Health Assembly endorses resolution on precision medicine
Strengthening nursing and midwifery through global collaboration
Healing the future: Traditional medicine drives innovation, equity and planetary health at WHA79
Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 21 May 2026
WHO and African Medicines Agency launch landmark framework to strengthen access to quality-assured health products in Africa
WHO and Gilead Sciences renew partnership to accelerate visceral leishmaniasis elimination
Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 20 May 2026
