Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain yesterday said more than 92% of people suffering from mental health conditions in Bangladesh do not receive any form of...
Spain’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, known as AECID, has registered a subsidy of nearly €500,000 for a project in Morocco. The grant targets the “reinforcement of access to...
The World Health Organization (WHO), with funding from European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), has launched a new humanitarian health project to close critical gaps in...
The Tunisian Ministry of Health is preparing a new national plan to strengthen maternal and neonatal healthcare, aiming to improve the quality of care and achieve the 2030 goals for maternal and...
The World Health Organization has warned that Sudan’s health situation is deteriorating, saying the cholera outbreak in the country is likely to worsen in the coming period as armed conflict...
 Iraq’s Ministry of Health said Sunday it had recorded 270 laboratory-confirmed cases of hemorrhagic fever and 17 deaths nationwide since the start of 2026. Health Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr...
The first national training workshop for vaccination supervisors in Libyan municipalities began Sunday in Tripoli. The workshop is organized through a partnership between the World Health...
Lebanon continues to face complex and overlapping crises that place significant pressure on its public health system, making it increasingly important to continuously voice needs and highlight...
Concerns are growing over a renewed cholera outbreak in Yemen, after years of conflict has left the country's healthcare system struggling to cope. Thousands of suspected cases have already been...
A new UNICEF report released today highlights that child food and nutrition insecurity is one of the primary drivers putting 3.7 million children under the age of five in Afghanistan at increased...
Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that 72 people were treated for suspected food poisoning in the Hashimiya district of Zarqa governorate after eating meals from a local restaurant. The...
Minister of Health, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Bdour, confirmed that all feedback and opinions raised will be taken into account with utmost attention. He emphasized that these observations form the essential...
The Integrated National Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Programme (Jaheziya) has launched the unified and integrated national programme for community preparedness and response, "Community...
  In war-torn Sudan, a deadly new cholera outbreak has already claimed more than 100 lives, heightening...
Hanan Balkhy, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, says that nearly 150 health centers have been forced to close since the beginning of 2026 due to...
Pakistan’s Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), together with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is urgently appealing for US$ 6.42 million to sustain lifesaving health and nutrition interventions across Somalia,...
 Countries across the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region moved to accelerate action against meningitis and advance national plans to strengthen prevention, surveillance,...
"I have never seen an outbreak this huge," says paediatrician Dr Mohammed Golam Mawla, as we look around a measles ward in the Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh. Until March this year, Bangladesh had...
Dr Hanan Balkhy, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, has concluded a high-level visit to Afghanistan as part of a mission of the Polio Oversight Board. Dr...
Jordan and Spain on Tuesday launched the "Reayah 2" project under a €5.5 million grant to strengthen primary healthcare services and support Jordan's efforts to further develop its healthcare...
The Government of Japan has reaffirmed its continued support to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in Jordan, helping sustain critical protection, health, and basic needs assistance for refugees amid...
Parliamentarians, Member State representatives, civil society and partners convened at the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly Global Parliamentary Forum to strengthen parliamentary leadership in...
Integrated mental health and noncommunicable disease services in Cox’s Bazar are improving care and offering lessons for humanitarian settings worldwide. After several visits to a primary health...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has enabled more than 6.5 million people across Afghanistan to access essential healthcare services by supporting local medical facilities, the agency...
Last week, the Polio Oversight Board (POB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) met with programme and public health leaders in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Leaders from partners...
 In 2025, 90 per cent of infants globally – or nearly 116 million – received at least one dose of a diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine, and 85 per cent – or...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated El Salvador as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Trachoma is the world's leading infectious cause of blindness. "I congratulate...
Between 2016 and 2026, Médecins du Monde France (MdM) documented 223 attacks on healthcare affecting its international operations, out of more than 1,000 incidents reported across all our programmes...
 The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the actual scale of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be between two and four times greater than official...
At the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly, the WHO Civil Society Commission demonstrated how structured engagement can translate diverse civil society perspectives into coordinated priorities that...
The outbreak of the deadly Bundibugyo species of Ebola in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is expanding, while the push to accelerate testing and identify effective treatment...
Millions of people are facing physical, emotional and financial toll of cancer, a disease that claims more than 26 000 lives every day, according to a report released today by the World Health...