David Nabarro, the WHO's special envoy for COVID-19 since 2020, has passed away at 75. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised Nabarro, a Briton and co-director of the Institute of Global Health ...

The main hospital in the southern Syrian city of Sweida is overwhelmed with trauma patients and working without adequate ...

Supplies of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, a crucial treatment, would be depleted by mid-August if nothing changed.

Today in History for Aug. 8: In 1471, Thomas Kempis, Dutch mystic and devotional author, died at age 91. His book "The Imitation of Christ" remains in print, a guide to cultivating the inner human ...

In justifying the United States' rejection of updates to global health regulations, the Department of Health and Human ...

Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other ...

"Terminology throughout the 2024 amendments is vague and broad, risking WHO-coordinated international responses that focus on ...

Since its introduction in 2015, the global action plan (GAP) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has guided the global response to AMR1 and the development of 178 national action plans (NAPs). However, ...

GENEVA, 15 July 2025–Lenacapavir–a long-acting, six-monthly injectable antiretroviral medicine manufactured by Gilead Sciences–is now recommended by the World Health Organization as an additional HIV ...

The World Health Organization has formally recognized the pivotal role of a number of heads of state and government in ...

Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants ...