Open letter to mayors on World Cities Day
Singapore wipes out measles; Australia, Brunei Darussalam and Macao SAR (China) eliminate rubella
More than 90% of the world’s children breathe toxic air every day
Consultation to guide the development of a global strategy on TB research and innovation
International exchange of viral material and expertise
WHO launches new guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes
Meeting for advancing TB research through multi-country research networks
New global commitment to primary health care for all at Astana conference
Improved detection of drug resistant TB using genetic and culture-based laboratory methods
HH Pope Francis and WHO Director-General: Health is a right and not a privilege
Pool of MERS experts for deployment established by WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
WHO stakeholder consultation to enable implementation of Unitaid supported innovative LTBI and childhood TB projects
First-ever targeted roadmap outlines steps to scale-up public-private health sector engagement to end TB
Finding the Missing People with TB: Overview of Progress - Global Fund Strategic Initiative meeting
Making history: WHO Director-General announces Memorandum of Understanding between Inter-Parliamentary Union and WHO
Sweden and WHO: Delivering health where it is needed most
Statement on the October 2018 meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Interagency statement calls for the elimination of “virginity-testing”
WHO launches ACTIVE: a toolkit for countries to increase physical activity and reduce noncommunicable diseases
United Nations agencies call for ban on virginity testing
Cases of sleeping sickness drop to lowest level in 75 years
Lowest caseload recorded as the world prepares to defeat sleeping sickness
Sleeping sickness: WHO scales-up data management training amid record low cases
First meeting of the Human African Trypanosomiasis Elimination Technical Advisory Group (HAT-e-TAG) Meeting Geneva, 23–25 November 2016 – Statement
Eliminating sleeping sickness as a public health problem is on track
STATEMENT -- On the recent opinion of the European Medicines Agency on fexinidazole treatment for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis
Kinshasa: No rest for a mobile unit pursuing the end of sleeping sickness
Record number of countries contribute data revealing disturbing rates of antimicrobial resistance
African leaders to review their countries’ progress in tackling neglected tropical diseases
Request for proposals – Technical support
International community rallies to support open research and science to fight COVID-19
Dr Maria Neira nominated an “inspirational” women
WHO and US EPA sign new Memorandum of Understanding on environmental health cooperation
World Cities Day
22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22)
Brazil and Venezuela sign agreement to accelerate cross-border health interventions and interrupt transmission of onchocerciasis
Stop tobacco industry exploitation of children and young people
First rituximab similar biotherapeutic products prequalified
World Toilet Day 2016
Countries, partners and civil society pledge to scale up engagement of private and unlinked public health providers to close gaps in access to quality TB care