Eliminating trachoma: WHO announces sustained progress with hundreds of millions of people no longer
The number of people at risk of trachoma – the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness – has fallen from 1.5 billion in 2002 to...
WHO and UNICEF Somalia and partners call on all Somalis to vaccinate children against polio
Health authorities rolled out a polio campaign yesterday in Puntland and Somaliland to vaccinate more than 940 000 children under 5 years...
WHO highlights scarcity of treatment for epilepsy in low-income countries
Three quarters of people living with epilepsy in low-income countries do not get the treatment they need, increasing their risk of dying...
WHO flags critical funding gap, calls for political parties to join fight against Ebola
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will only end with bipartisan political cooperation and community ownership,...
New study finds no link between HIV infection and contraceptive methods
A large clinical research study conducted in four African countries found no significant difference in risk of HIV infection among women...
1 in 3 people globally do not have access to safe drinking water – UNICEF, WHO
Billions of people around the world are continuing to suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, according to a new report...
In the face of slow progress, WHO offers a new tool and sets a target to accelerate action against a
WHO today launched a global campaign urging governments to adopt a tool to reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance, adverse events...
Food safety is everyone’s business
The first ever celebration of the United Nations World Food Safety Day, to be marked globally on 7 June, aims to strengthen efforts to...
More than 1 million new curable sexually transmitted infections every day
Every day, there are more than 1 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among people aged 15-49 years,...