Global Health Workforce Network kicks off with a bang at Health Systems Research Symposium in Vancouver.
WHO calls for early detection, intensified efforts to eliminate leprosy
WHO welcomes new agreement between Medicines Patent Pool and Johns Hopkins University on the development of Sutezolid for TB treatment
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and Electronic Non-Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS/ENNDS)
WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis, Geneva, 15–16 December 2016 – Statement
WHO Executive Board announces the names of the 3 nominees for the post of WHO Director-General
Mahmoud Fikri appointed as Regional Director for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
WHO Executive Board agrees on an initial short list of candidates to the post of WHO Director-General
Joint Statement on Syria
Ending preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025
Dracunculiasis eradication: Mali reports zero cases in 2016
Tobacco control can save billions of dollars and millions of lives
Final trial results confirm Ebola vaccine provides high protection against disease
Letter to malaria partners (December 2016)
WHO celebrates achievements in 2016, despite global health challenges
WHO calls for urgent resumption of medical evacuations from besieged east Aleppo
UN General Assembly high-level meeting on TB to take place in 2018
First meeting of the Human African Trypanosomiasis Elimination Technical Advisory Group (HAT-e-TAG) Meeting Geneva, 23–25 November 2016 – Statement
Funding contraceptive programmes effectively. What the evidence says and what next
Delivering climate-resilient water and sanitation in Africa and Asia
World birth defects day
Global Tobacco Laboratory Network Combating Tobacco Epidemic
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) or electronic nicotine delivery systems
WHO to use the documentary titled “Addiction Incorporated” in its Global Fight Against Tobacco
WHO issues new guidance on tobacco product regulation towards maximum protection of public health
Mexico is free from human rabies transmitted by dogs
WHO and Mundo Sano Foundation to facilitate access to paediatric treatment of Chagas disease
Celebrated Argentine painter donates artwork to create visibility about Chagas disease
World Chagas Disease Day: raising awareness of neglected tropical diseases
Paraguay interrupts vector transmission of Chagas in the home
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of Chagas disease: from control to elimination
WHO and FIND formalize strategic collaboration to drive universal access to essential diagnostics
Online training as a weapon to fight the new coronavirus
Update on MERS-CoV transmission from animals to humans, and interim recommendations for at-risk groups
WHO to accelerate research and innovation for new coronavirus
WHO publishes Emergency Use Listing procedure and roadmap to make new medical products more readily available during health emergencies
Situation update on meningitis C epidemic risk
Unleashing Youth Power: A Decade of Accelerating Actions Towards Zero Female Genital Mutilation
