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The Ministry of Health, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) Jordan office, Tuesday unveiled Jordan's National Health Sector Climate Adaptation Strategy 2024-2033.The...

Heart disease is killing more women in Pakistan than previously understood, with female patients experiencing higher mortality rates, more severe symptoms and delayed diagnoses compared to men,...

Minister of Health, Dr. Musab Al-Ali, discussed Tuesday with UNICEF Representative in Syria, Meritxel Relaño, ways to enhance cooperation in the health sector. During the meeting, the two sides...

Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, is slowly and cautiously showing signs of revival, as some families, displaced by the sudden eruption of conflict in April 2023, begin to make the journey home. The city,...

Field teams from the UAE and the World Health Organisation (WHO), in close coordination with Yemen’s Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP), have completed the first phase of a...

Abstract Background Grading leniency and “Failure to Fail” phenomena have been widely documented in medical education, yet little research has explored these issues in the Middle Eastern...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has dispatched 5 trucks carrying over 300 000 essential medical items for health departments across Pakistan to be prepositioned for potential health emergency...

Wildfires raging across large parts of Syria have already destroyed thousands of hectares of vegetation, forced the evacuation of residents, and raised growing concern among environmental experts...

A new round of polio vaccination for children begins this week in Government of Yemen-controlled areas. The 3-day campaign, running from 12 to 14 July 2025, aims to boost population immunity in...

A new report by the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has found that sand and dust storms are leading to “premature deaths” due to climate change, with more than 330...

As the conflict in Sudan enters its third year, more than 10 million people have been displaced, the economy is in crisis and essential water, sanitation, health services, and markets have been...

Bangladesh has been repeatedly battered by cyclones, droughts, tidal surges, and floods, with each disaster leaving a deeper mark than the last on both the landscape and the people who live there....

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns that Gaza’s water crisis has reached breaking point. Ongoing hostilities, mass displacement, and extreme fuel shortages have left communities without...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is witnessing a sharp and unprecedented rise in acute malnutrition among Palestinians in Gaza. At MSF’s clinics in Al-Mawasi in...

The World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Health and the Information and eGovernment Authority (iGA) conducted a workshop at the iGA premises in Isa Town, on 22–25 June 2025, to provide...

The eighth annual Global Health Exhibition will take place from Oct. 27 to 30 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday. The aim of the event, the theme...

Two of Gaza’s largest hospitals have issued desperate pleas for help, warning that fuel shortages caused by Israel’s siege could soon turn the medical centres into “silent graveyards”. The...

Telecom Egypt signed a Memorandum of Understanding with KareXpert, a leading healthcare technology company powered by artificial intelligence assistant, to launch a comprehensive digital healthcare...

Hospital-acquired infections are a major challenge in Bangladesh, impacting patient safety and increasing costs. To address this, WHO is collaborating with Bangladesh Medical University (BMU) to...

Afghanistan’s Minister of Public Health, Mawlawi Noor Jalal Jalali, called on Afghanistan medical professionals living abroad to return home and contribute to the country’s healthcare...

Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, met with Hanan Balkhy, Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Eastern Mediterranean, at the ministry’s...

The World Health Organization (WHO) in Afghanistan is deeply concerned about the health needs of Afghan returnees, particularly women and children, who have been arriving in record numbers through...