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15 April 2025, Cairo, Egypt – Two years into the conflict, Sudan’s health system is at breaking point. As the rainy season looms the country faces a perfect storm of disease outbreaks,...

Health unions across Pakistan's most populous state, Punjab, have launched widespread protests under the umbrella of Grand Health Alliance (GHA). The provincial government has decided to privatise...

On 8 and 9 April 2025, Dr Rogerio Gaspar, Director of Regulation and Prequalification at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters, led a high-level mission to the Islamic Republic of Iran to...

When Husham, a 6-year-old boy, came to the National Tuberculosis (TB) Institute’s drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) clinic in Baghdad in November 2022 he appeared frail and underdeveloped. Husham had a...

The Saudi health system achieved global recognition by winning a prestigious award and 19 international medals at the 50th edition of 2025 Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, reaffirming...

The deputy minister of public health told TOLOnews that international aid was largely symbolic and its suspension has had no effect on Afghanistan. Bakht Rahman Sharafat, speaking at the opening of...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with support from the Government of Japan and local authorities in Al-Diwanya Governorate, celebrated today the inauguration of the rehabilitated maternity...

Salma is from the Mohmand Dara District of Nangarhar but has lived in Pakistan with her family for 15 years. Last week, she found herself back in the soil of her roots as she was among those deported...

As robust poliovirus surveillance continues in Pakistan, 60 environmental (sewage) samples collected from 51 districts between March 5 and March 19, 2025 were tested at the Regional Reference...

Lebanon has experienced a period of intensified conflict since 08 October 2023 to November 2024 leading to significant humanitarian and infrastructural losses.¹ Hostilities escalated sharply on...

The World Health Organization (WHO), with generous funding from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the Government of Ireland, has delivered 24 000 lifesaving dialysis sessions at 19...

Through its network of health clinics throughout the country, UNRWA offers maternal and child healthcare services to all Palestine Refugees in Lebanon. Walaa, a 35-year-old Palestine Refugee from...

UNFPA, the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health agency, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Health, marked a key milestone in Syria’s...

Eight people, including five children, have died after walking for three hours in blistering heat to seek treatment for cholera in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state, as United States aid...

 The Ministry of Health launched today the Oman National Health Policy. This comes as part of efforts to bolster the healthcare system in the Sultanate of Oman and to achieve objectives of Oman...

The Ministry of National Health Services and Regulations has sought Ministry of Information Technology’s support to reshape the national healthcare system by digitalising the countrywide health...

“I am grateful for this kit, it has all the basic things I need but could not afford, especially now after losing my husband,” said teary-eyed Zuleyha as she received a Dignity Kit from a...

Background Measles remains a major public health challenge globally, particularly in regions with low vaccination coverage. Iraq has experienced recurrent outbreaks in recent years, primarily due to...

Ten years ago today, Bangladesh launched its Mental Health First Aid program. One focus was on reducing disaster impacts, further contributing to Bangladesh’s internationally renowned successes at...

The Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassies in Syria and Lebanon, organized a workshop Monday to discuss the needs of the health sector in Syria, the challenges it is facing,...

Pakistan is at a critical juncture in its fight against HIV. With an estimated 290,000 people living with the virus, rising infections– concentrated among vulnerable and marginalized...

For over a month, no commercial or humanitarian supplies have entered Gaza.  More than 2.1 million people are trapped, bombed and starved again, while, at crossing points, food, medicine, fuel and...

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and healthcare institutions yesterday, marked the World Health Day, aligning with this year’s theme, ‘Maternal and Newborn Health.’ On this occasion, the...

Mahi* was forced to sleep on the balcony even during winter. Martha* was sexually harassed—but no one believed her. Beatrice has to answer to another name. Makdes* was subjected to verbal,...

Professor Md Sayedur Rahman, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has called for increased investment in universal health and well-being for all,...