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8 December 2017

News release

Amid concern over drug resistance, Mekong countries call for accelerated action to eliminate malaria before 2030

10 November 2017

News release

Stop overuse and misuse of antibiotics: combat resistance

12 October 2017

News release

World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros appoints Cook Islands’ Elizabeth Iro as WHO’s Chief Nursing Officer

12 October 2017

News release

Countries pledge to fund priority public health services; make medicines, the health workforce and food safer

10 October 2017

News release

Regional health leaders target elimination of: measles and rubella; HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis in babies

9 October 2017

News release

Health leaders gather in Australia for World Health Organization’s top regional decision-making body

9 October 2017

News release

World Health Organization and Australia forge new strategic partnership

19 September 2017

News release

Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic wipe out trachoma—leading infectious cause of blindness

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25 August 2026

Departmental update

People, animals, plants, ecosystems: making the case for investing in One Health

25 August 2026

Statement

Statement of the Forty-fifth Meeting of the Polio IHR Emergency Committee

24 August 2026

Statement

Second meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on the epidemic of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Temporary recommendations

24 August 2026

Departmental update

Mozambique strengthens regulation of medicines and imported vaccines, boosting health protection