World Mental Health Day: an opportunity to kick-start a massive scale-up in investment in mental health
Togo is first African country to end sleeping sickness as a public health problem
Target product profiles for tuberculosis preventive treatment
Global polio eradication initiative applauds WHO African region for wild polio-free certification
172 countries and multiple candidate vaccines engaged in COVID-19 vaccine Global Access Facility
Updated Buruli ulcer recording and reporting forms are now available
Preventing HIV in high HIV burden settings through voluntary medical male circumcision
Ministry of Health Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaign targets 1.6 million lives in the West-Nile region of Uganda
Meeting women’s emotional, psychological and clinical needs during childbirth
World Humanitarian Day 2020: A tribute to aid workers on the front lines
World Health Assembly adopts global strategy to accelerate cervical cancer elimination
The Republic of Korea and WHO sign new Memorandum of Understanding, committing US$ 6 million in COVID-19 PCR test kits for 24 countries in the African region
INCB, WHO and UNODC statement on access to internationally controlled medicines during COVID-19 pandemic
2 in 5 schools around the world lacked basic handwashing facilities prior to COVID-19 pandemic — UNICEF, WHO
Happy International Youth Day!
Steps to requesting donated medicines for treatment of epilepsy‐associated tapeworm infection
International Youth Day 2020
Member States adopt the Global Strategy for TB Research and Innovation at 73rd World Health Assembly
WHO Information Notice for Users of medical devices and PPE used for COVID-19 2020/3
73rd World Health Assembly Decisions
G20 First-time Released Report on Digital Health Interventions for Pandemic Management
WHO reveals leading causes of death and disability worldwide: 2000-2019
Shipping of infectious substances training held in Khartoum
WHO Works to strengthen biosafety and laboratory biosecurity in the African Region
Opening remarks at meeting on dissemination of national biosafety regulation and laboratory quality standards and the progress on strengthening health laboratory and epidemiology systems in Lao PDR
WHO strengthened the National Public Health Laboratory to safely manage infectious specimens in South Sudan
WHO launches year-long campaign to help 100 million people quit tobacco
WHO builds capacity of qualified personnel for laboratory biosafety in Turkmenistan
Countries, partners and civil society commit to strengthening public-private care provider engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic to enable access to affordable TB care at PPM Working Group Meeting
WHO announces forthcoming updates on the systematic screening for tuberculosis
Investing in midwife-led interventions could save 4.3 million lives per year, new study finds
Global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines estimated to generate economic benefits of at least US$ 153 billion in 2020–21, and US$ 466 billion by 2025, in 10 major economies, according to new report by the Eurasia Group
Global Solidarity to End TB and HIV
The Bangkok Statement: A pledge to promote the protection of Children's Environmental Health
Action to avert an 18 million health worker shortfall announced at the 4th Human Resources for Health Forum in Dublin
WHO announces development of new guidance on Hepatitis C self-testing
Additional Research on Acrylamide in Food essential, Scientists declare
Profile: Dr Collins Tabu, Head of Immunization Programme, Ministry of Health, Kenya
OPEC Fund joins as Partners in Fight against HIV/AIDS
Beginning of Construction work on new WHO/UNAIDS building
