Regional Reflections – building consensus and highlighting regional priorities on activating meaningful engagement.
Statement of celebration for HRP’s 50th anniversary: Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
WHO launches new initiative to improve pandemic preparedness
WHO and IAPAC sign a memorandum of understanding focused on ending epidemics in cities
UN special programme for research on sexual and reproductive health celebrates 50 years
WHO urges increased implementation of recommended tools to combat malaria
Medical Product Alert N°4/2023: Substandard (contaminated) syrup medicines
Siding with science and SRHR: Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Dialogue on SRHR with Dr Tedros
Global partners announce a new effort – “The Big Catch-up” – to vaccinate millions of children and restore immunization progress lost during the pandemic
A new National Adolescent Health Strategy in Mauritius
Governments hold third round of discussions on proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005)
WHO applauds Brazil’s leadership in advancing multisectoral engagement towards ending TB
Testing the accuracy of an innovation in diverse settings: A multi-country study assessing a smartphone blood pressure application
Message by the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO - April 2023
mRNA Technology Transfer Programme moves to the next phase of its development
WHO releases the largest global collection of health inequality data
WHO releases new guide on developing national programmes for age-friendly cities and communities
Global Compendium of Knowledge on COVID-19
WHO releases first-ever Standard on universal access to rapid TB diagnostics
WHO/UNICEF have started the Immunization Annual Data Collection Process
High-level resource mobilization conference to eliminate viral hepatitis
WHO congratulates Benin and Mali for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem
WHO calls for safe and ethical AI for health
New resources released to help more preterm and low birthweight babies benefit from kangaroo mother care
WHO announces the first meeting of the Hemoglobinopathies Guideline Development Subgroup
Fifth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health: Opening ceremony
New WHO report highlights progress, but also remaining gaps, in ensuring a robust pipeline of antibiotic treatments to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Transport systems need to be made safe, healthy and sustainable
Bangladesh eliminates lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem
TDR and WHO announce TDA4Child, an operational research package to generate data on treatment decision algorithms for pulmonary tuberculosis in children
Statement of the thirty-fifth Polio IHR Emergency Committee
WHO advises not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control in newly released guideline
First-ever WHO research agenda on hand hygiene in health care to improve quality and safety of care
WHO announces the development of the Consolidated Guidelines on STI prevention and care (2022-2023)
Fifth Meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee on the Multi-Country Outbreak of mpox (monkeypox)
WHO calls for accelerated action to reduce anaemia
152 million babies born preterm in the last decade
Lifesaving solution dramatically reduces severe bleeding after childbirth
Global progress in tackling maternal and newborn deaths stalls since 2015: UN
UAE and WHO deliver air lift of critical medical supplies to Sudan
