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World Asthma Day: WHO calls for better education to empower people living with asthma
WHO Results Report 2023 shows notable health achievements and calls for concerted drive toward Sustainable Development Goals
Breastfeeding should be recognised as a carbon offset: report
Latrobe City Joins Global Celebration Of Diversity
Global cooperation towards enhanced surveillance of foodborne diseases
Healthy eating guidelines for babies: when can your baby drink cow’s milk?
Rafah incursion would substantially increase mortality and morbidity and further weaken an already broken health system
To boost quality of life while aging – stay active or get active by 55
International Development Innovation Alliance and WHO renew collaboration on scale-up of health innovations
WHO advisory group convenes its first meeting on responsible use of the life sciences in Geneva
Anticipating the inevitable: how prepared are we for the next pandemic?
Strengthened global capacities on climate change and health: WHO training in Madrid
National Trauma Centre Ready For Future Health Crisis
Governments near agreement on package of amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005)
WHO reports widespread overuse of antibiotics in patients hospitalized with COVID-19
WHO and France convene high-level meeting to defeat meningitis
Statement on the antigen composition of COVID-19 vaccines
Spain’s Secretary of State for Health discusses health priorities with WHO
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years
World Malaria Day 2024: “Accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world”
Kourtney Kardashian Barker isn’t the first to drink breast milk – but we know surprisingly little about its adult health benefits
WHO-trained journalists win national road safety reporting award in Viet Nam
WHO Global Malaria Programme launches new operational strategy
Promising patient-friendly oral drug against visceral leishmaniasis enters Phase II clinical trial in Ethiopia
As Empire AI dawns, Cornell lays groundwork for public good
Parrot fever cases amid a ‘mysterious’ pneumonia outbreak in Argentina – what you need to know about psittacosis
Assistant Minister For Health And Aged Care, Speech 22 April
WHO prequalifies new oral simplified vaccine for cholera
Leading health agencies outline updated terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air
WHO launches first ever Patient Safety Rights Charter
Thailand’s new road safety Parliamentary Advisory Group takes aim at road crashes
NZ Emergency Medical Team internationally recognised for quality of care
Statement on the outcomes of the ICMRA-WHO joint workshop on COVID-19 vaccines strain change
New research shows urgency to act on Nigeria’s trans fat elimination policy
Special programme on sexual and reproductive health reports on year of progress
WHO announces Health for All Film Festival shortlist and jury
MEDIA ADVISORY: Critical incident declared after man shot by police – Bondi Junction
Enhancing Global Health and Well-Being: WHO and the Netherlands strengthen their Partnership
In world first, Nigeria introduces new 5-in-1 vaccine against meningitis
Challenging harmful masculinities and engaging men and boys in sexual and reproductive health
World Chagas Disease Day 2024: urging early diagnosis and care for life
Too Many People Die After Leaving Prison
WHO announces forthcoming updates on co-administration of treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis and hepatitis C
WHO sounds alarm on viral hepatitis infections claiming 3500 lives each day
Research changes lives when the right people have access to it
WHO Youth Council urges parliamentarians to take action on universal health coverage
Statement following the Thirty-eighth Meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee for Polio
MEDIA ADVISORY: Two men in Nigeria charged over alleged sextortion which led to Australian boy taking his own life