World No Tobacco Day 2013 awards - the winners

South Sudan vows to interrupt dracunculiasis transmission amid continued decline

World Health Assembly opens to discuss major health issues

Yellow fever vaccination booster not needed

WHO statistics show narrowing health gap between countries with best and worst health status

E-health technologies and substance abuse

2.4 billion people will lack improved sanitation in 2015

Medical Product Alert N°2/2013: Falsified batches of Coartem

More than 270 000 pedestrians killed on roads each year

Shipping of infectious substances training held in Khartoum

Global leaders support new six-year plan to deliver a polio-free world by 2018

WHO launches emergency response to antimalarial drug resistance

Global health leaders honour UN Secretary-General Special Envoy to Stop Tuberculosis

Appeal by heads of leading UN humanitarian agencies for the people of the Syrian Arab Republic

New plan to address pneumonia and diarrhoea could save 2 million children annually

New trial confirms effectiveness of single-dose oral antibiotic, boosting prospects for yaws eradication

Ending preventable deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025

World Health Day 2013: measure your blood pressure, reduce your risk

UK Symposium on Patient Safety Partnerships

Global epidemic of diabetes threatens progress in TB control