Closing Funding Gaps and Accelerating Innovation Critical in Ending TB, says WHO
World Health Organization (WHO) Director, Dr Tereza Kasaeva, has called for urgent action to end tuberculosis (TB) on World TB...
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World Health Organization Declared Monkeypox A Global Health Emergency
“For all of these reasons, I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international...
UNICEF and WHO Warn of ‘Perfect Storm’ of Conditions for Measles Outbreaks, Affecting Children
An increase in measles cases in January and February 2022 is a worrying sign of a heightened risk for the...
WHO Urges Accelerated Action to Protect Human Health and Combat the Climate Crisis at a Time of Heightened Conflict and Fragility
On this World Health Day (April 7, 2022), WHO is issuing an urgent call for accelerated action by leaders and...
New International Expert Panel to Address the Emergence and Spread of Zoonotic Diseases
International organizations have come together to launch a new One Health High-Level Expert Panel to improve understanding of how diseases...
WHO Releases New Estimates of the Global Burden of Cervical Cancer Associated with HIV
As WHO launched the Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer on 16 November 2020, the first estimates...
28 July World Hepatitis Day
World Hepatitis Day is commemorated each year on 28 July to enhance awareness of viral hepatitis, an inflammation of the...
WHO Welcomes Preliminary Results About Dexamethasone Use in Treating Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the initial clinical trial results from the United Kingdom (UK) that show dexamethasone, a...
Billions Worldwide Living with Herpes, You may be One of Them
About half a billion people worldwide are living with genital herpes, and several billion have an oral herpes infection, new...
