October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a global opportunity to raise awareness of breast cancer and call for action to ...

Dr. Suerie Moon, James Love, Ambassador Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota, Peter Harrison, Margo A Bagley©WHOBringing together ...

Cholera deaths increased by 30% in 2025, despite fewer cases being reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2025, ...

Dr Duratul ‘Ain Binti Hussin, a public health optometrist and researcher with Malaysia’s Ministry of Health, focuses on ensuring that people receive high-quality refractive error care. As principal ...

Political leaders meeting at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) renewed their commitment to making the world safer ...

WHO convened an online workshop of the International Regulatory Cooperation for Herbal Medicines (WHO-IRCH) Working Group 2 ...

At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the adoption of the New ...

A new WHO report, Artificial Intelligence-related health research: ethics review and oversight, provides recommendations for researchers, ethics committees, regulators, funders and policy-makers to ...

One in six live births (21 million per year) is affected by hyperglycaemia during pregnancy. Hyperglycaemia in pregnancy ...

The pandemic exposed and exacerbated faultlines in global health security. During the pandemic and since, WHO established 10 initiatives to make the world safer from future epidemics and pandemics, in ...

From 21 to 24 September 2026, policy-makers, health managers and technical experts from seven countries and territories ...

To strengthen national capacities, the Pandemic Fund with the World Bank and the Universal Health and Preparedness Review; To strengthen surveillance and early warning, the WHO Hub for Pandemic and ...