World leaders commit to bold targets and urgent action to end TB
WHO calls for protection of humanitarian workers and civilians in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ray Chambers appointed WHO Ambassador for Global Strategy
Circumcision programmes for HIV prevention – an opportunity to talk to men
GSK’s Investigational Vaccine Candidate M72/AS01E shows promise for prevention of TB disease in a Phase 2b trial conducted in Kenya, South Africa and Zambia
Dr Peter Salama, WHO Deputy Director-General, Emergency Preparedness and Response
New Roadmap towards ending TB in Children and Adolescents
Trachoma elimination: Iranians triumph against the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness
Launch of Roadmap towards ending TB in children and adolescents
Harmful use of alcohol kills more than 3 million people each year, most of them men
WHO launches first investment case to save up to 30 million lives
Joint meeting discusses ways to advance rabies elimination in Africa
WHO calls for urgent action to end TB - 2018 Global TB Report released at the UN in New York
WHO calls for urgent action to end TB
UNIATF Awards 2018
A child under 15 dies every 5 seconds around the world
Inclusion of “gaming disorder” in ICD-11
Grand Challenges grant for cuffless blood pressure monitor linked to action software
Raising awareness of maternal sepsis in Mexico
Public health implications of excessive use of the Internet and other communication and gaming platforms
At least 80 million children under one at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio as COVID-19 disrupts routine vaccination efforts, warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF
Results of an updated analysis of trends in human African trypanosomiasis from 2000 to 2018
Exciting new results from long-acting PrEP study show it to be effective in preventing HIV acquisition in men who have sex with men and transgender women
WHO publishes new guidelines for malaria vector control
Malaria elimination certification in Paraguay
Argentina’s malaria-free certification
Algeria’s malaria-free certification
World No Tobacco Day 2020 awards - the winners
Smithsonian Science Education Center With Support of the World Health Organization Launches New COVID-19 Guide for Youth
WHO and UNHCR join forces to improve health services for refugees, displaced and stateless people
Zika virus included in the 2018 annual review of the Blueprint list of priority diseases
Zika diagnostics added to the WHO Essential Diagnostics List
Zika epidemiology update
Historic health assembly ends with global commitment to COVID-19 response
WHO and ILO sign Collaboration Agreement to produce WHO/ILO Joint Estimates
WHO and ILO propose SDG indicator for deaths from work-related diseases from WHO/ILO Joint Estimates
WHO supports response to the suspected meningitis outbreak in Torit County, South Sudan
Eritrea launches the Meningitis A Vaccination and Vitamin A supplementation Campaign November – December 2019
Meeting of the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Bioethics
WHO and International Olympic Committee team up to improve health through sport
