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From laboratories to battlefields, the UN’s specialized health agency has been dedicated to the well-being of all people since 1948. It is guided by science and supported by its 194 member nations, including the United States, a co-founder who on Monday announced plans to withdraw. What has WHO done for the world? The short answer […]

In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for 1.5 billion dollars through its 2025 Health Emergency Appeal to deliver life-saving health interventions worldwide. The appeal, unveiled on Thursday by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlines the urgent priorities to address 42 ongoing health emergencies, including 17 that require immediate and coordinated action. “Conflicts, outbreaks,

“Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real-world consequences. Regulating this content is not censorship.” Volker Türk wrote the X. In a longer LinkedIn post on the same theme, Mr. Türk that efforts to create safe online spaces were termed “censorship…ignore[s] the fact that unregulated space means some people are silenced – especially those

“Since this morning’s reports of a raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, we have lost contact with the staff there,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on social media platform X. “This development is deeply disturbing given the number of patients being served and people housed there,” he added. Northern Gaza has

UN human rights chief Volker Türk said the darkest moment in the Gaza conflict is unfolding in the northern part of the strip, where the Israeli military is effectively exposing an entire population to bombing, siege and risk of starvation, as well as being forced to choose between mass displacement and being caught in an

Hours after the campaign rolled out, reports indicated that a health center in the north had been hit, injuring six people, including four children, in a place where there had been a humanitarian pause, according to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) . . “We have received an extremely worrying report that the

Richard Peeperkorn of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the occupied Palestinian territory said the aim was to reach all children in the north with the second and final dose. “We covered many more children than we expected, but we missed some,” he said during a video-link briefing for journalists at UN headquarters on Monday,

On Monday, the Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, rolled out vaccines to Sudan’s war-torn population, making it the first country in the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean region to benefit. Malaria remains a leading cause of child mortality in

The study is the first global effort to systematically prioritize endemic pathogens based on their regional and global health impact. It reaffirms long-standing priorities for vaccine research and development (R&D), including for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis – three diseases that together cause nearly 2.5 million deaths each year. Pathogens such as group A streptococci, which

Dr. Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, spoke during a press briefing about emergencies in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Lebanon, but also in war-torn Sudan and beyond. She also maintained the critical role played by the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA in Gaza and appealed for peace. “We urge immediate and