E-Bulletin

Strengthening rapid response capacities in Egypt

Dec 02, 2025

WHO EMRO
Strengthening rapid response capacities in Egypt

In October 2025, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP), in collaboration with WHO Egypt and with support from the Pandemic Fund, concluded the final round of nationwide training sessions for...


WHO chief calls on parties to protect health personnel, facilities in Sudan amid ongoing attacks

Dec 02, 2025

Anadolu Agency
WHO chief calls on parties to protect health personnel, facilities in Sudan amid ongoing attacks

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief on Tuesday called on parties to the conflict in Sudan to protect health care facilities and workers amid ongoing attacks against them. "In Sudan, attacks on...


Health Access and Utilization Survey - 2025 - Syrian

Nov 30, 2025

UNHCR Operational Data Portal
Health Access and Utilization Survey - 2025 - Syrian

Despite its no longer the largest displacement crisis, the Syrian refugee crisis continues to be a complex and protracted humanitarian crisis. Current numbers indicate that 13 million people were...


Health Access and Utilization Survey_ 2025 - Non-Syrian

Nov 30, 2025

UNHCR Operational Data Portal
Health Access and Utilization Survey_ 2025 - Non-Syrian

UNHCR has registered a significant refugee population living in Jordan. They come predominantly from Syria, while there are also large groups from Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia1. Jordan is...


IPHCC highlights Qatar’s advances in primary healthcare innovation

Nov 28, 2025

The Peninsula
IPHCC highlights Qatar’s advances in primary healthcare innovation

The 6th International Primary Health Care Conference (IPHCC) opened yesterday, highlighting Qatar’s rapidly advancing healthcare system and its ability to turn ambitious national visions into...


Malnutrition persists as winter sets in, threatening children’s lives and wellbeing in Gaza

Nov 28, 2025

UNICEF
Malnutrition persists as winter sets in, threatening children’s lives and wellbeing in Gaza

High levels of malnutrition continue to endanger the lives and wellbeing of children in the Gaza Strip, compounded by the onset of winter weather accelerating the spread of disease and increasing the...


WHO issues first global guideline on infertility

Nov 28, 2025

WHO
WHO issues first global guideline on infertility

The World Health Organization (WHO) today called on countries to make fertility care safer, fairer and more affordable for all in its first-ever global guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and...


DPC - Noncommunicable diseases bulletin: Issue 03

Nov 26, 2025

Africa CDC
DPC - Noncommunicable diseases bulletin: Issue 03

As the year draws to a close, WHO African Region noncommunicable disease (NCD) programme enters a new chapter—one defined by transformation, expansion and renewed determination. Following a...


Vehicle of the Pope: Bringing aid and hope to children

Nov 26, 2025

Caritas
Vehicle of the Pope: Bringing aid and hope to children

On 25 November, Caritas unveiled the “Vehicle of Hope,” the former Popemobile transformed into a mobile pediatric clinic designed to reach Gaza’s most vulnerable children, those living in areas...


The impact of war on the respiratory health of civilians in Gaza

Nov 25, 2025

The Lancet
The impact of war on the respiratory health of civilians in Gaza

Acute respiratory infections are the most prevalent communicable disease, with over 995 000 reported cases in the Gaza Strip between October, 2023, and August, 2024.3 The burden of respiratory...


Pakistan shifts from ‘sick-care’ to prevention, launches national digital health records: Kamal

Nov 25, 2025

Associated Press of Pakistan
Pakistan shifts from ‘sick-care’ to prevention, launches national digital health records: Kamal

Federal Minister for Health Syed Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday said Pakistan is fundamentally transforming its healthcare system by shifting from a hospital dependent “sick-care model” to a...


Global and national experts concur: ending polio in Pakistan – and the world – is within reach

Nov 25, 2025

Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)
Global and national experts concur: ending polio in Pakistan – and the world – is within reach

International and national experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Aga Khan University in Karachi on Friday unanimously concluded that all available science and evidence...


RSF must protect health facilities and staff following death of health worker in Central Darfur

Nov 25, 2025

MSF
RSF must protect health facilities and staff following death of health worker in Central Darfur

Médecins Sans FrontiÚres (MSF) is mourning the death of a Ministry of Health colleague at Zalingei hospital in Central Darfur state, Sudan on 18 November. We call once again for the Rapid Support...


Drug Evaluation Committee Launches Field Tour to Support Health Centers in the South

Nov 25, 2025

Libya update
Drug Evaluation Committee Launches Field Tour to Support Health Centers in the South

The Committee for Reviewing and Classifying Medicines and Determining the Needs of Health Facilities in the South has commenced its fieldwork as part of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s “Together...


Libya launches major probe into counterfeit medical disinfectant circulating in health facilities

Nov 25, 2025

North Africa Post
Libya launches major probe into counterfeit medical disinfectant circulating in health facilities

Libya’s Office of the Public Prosecutor has initiated a sweeping investigation after reports confirmed that a counterfeit version of the medical disinfectant “Instru Zym” was being distributed...


Cuba says 33 have died of mosquito-borne illnesses as epidemic rages

Dec 02, 2025

Bahrian News Agency
Cuba says 33 have died of mosquito-borne illnesses as epidemic rages

Cuba confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the population.According to Reuters, the Deputy Minister of...


World AIDS Day 2025: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response

Dec 01, 2025

WHO EMRO
World AIDS Day 2025: Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) is joining partners and communities around the globe to commemorate World AIDS Day 2025 under the theme “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS...


WHO issues global guideline on the use of GLP-1 medicines in treating obesity

Dec 01, 2025

WHO
WHO issues global guideline on the use of GLP-1 medicines in treating obesity

To address the growing global health challenge of obesity, which affects more than 1 billion people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first guideline on the use of Glucagon-Like...


New prevention tools and investment in services essential in the fight against AIDS

Dec 01, 2025

WHO
New prevention tools and investment in services essential in the fight against AIDS

On World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on governments and partners to rapidly expand access to new WHO-approved tools including lenacapavir (LEN) to drive down infections and...


WHO and African health ministries set global benchmark for preventing sexual exploitation in joint health operations

Nov 29, 2025

World Health Organization
WHO and African health ministries set global benchmark for preventing sexual exploitation in joint...

WHO, in partnership with 42 African Member States, has launched a landmark initiative to embed accountability for Preventing and Responding to Sexual Exploitation, Abuse...


Measles deaths down 88% since 2000, but cases surge

Nov 28, 2025

WHO
Measles deaths down 88% since 2000, but cases surge

Global immunization efforts have led to an 88% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 59 million lives have been...


Transboundary animal diseases pose urgent threat to global food security, FAO warns

Nov 28, 2025

FAO
Transboundary animal diseases pose urgent threat to global food security, FAO warns

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, on Friday urged Member Countries to reinforce global partnerships to prevent and control...


Attacks on Health Care  Bi-Monthly News Brief

Nov 26, 2025

Insecurity Insight
Attacks on Health Care Bi-Monthly News Brief

AfricaDemocratic Republic of the CongoBetween 04-07 November 2025: In Tuwe Tuwe village, Itombwe health zone, Fizi territory, South Kivu province, the Tuwe Tuwe Health Centre was ransacked and...


International funding cuts disrupted global response to HIV, UN report says

Nov 25, 2025

Al Jazeera
International funding cuts disrupted global response to HIV, UN report says

The United Nations agency for combating AIDS has announced that global funding disruptions for treatment and prevention programmes are leaving millions of people without access to care. In a report...