Pakistan has launched a polio vaccination campaign today in the province of Balochistan, as part of ongoing national efforts to eradicate the virus. According to Radio Pakistan, the campaign targets...
 The Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP) has launched Yemen's National Health Strategy (NHS) 2026–2030, a unified roadmap to guide the development of the country's health sector...
After more than a decade of conflict and economic decline, children across Yemen continue to face alarming levels of malnutrition. At the same time, sweeping humanitarian funding cuts —...
Jordanian authorities on Wednesday announced the return of 20 Palestinian children with 48 family members to the Gaza Strip after they received treatment in Jordanian hospitals as part of the...
At least 14 infants were killed in a fire at a state-run hospital in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Wednesday, the prime minister said, with the health minister attributing the tragedy to a blast in...
The World Health Organization has extended for another three months its declaration that the international spread of poliovirus remains a public health emergency of international concern, warning...
Using data collected by Insecurity Insight, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 74 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Syria in 2025. Among the...
Health has become an increasingly strategic component of international relations. Pandemic preparedness, access to medicines, pharmaceutical supply chains, health data, biotechnology and medical...
Khulna City Corporation (KCC) has intensified its anti-dengue campaign, launching enhanced cleanliness and mosquito-control operations alongside free medical camps to protect city residents from the...
Sickle cell disease contributed to an estimated 81 100 deaths among children under five in 2021. WHO is working to close that gap, pairing updated clinical guidance with new efforts to make...
Rare diseases affect millions of people globally and are often complex, involving multiple organ groups and resulting in disabilities and premature death. Many people living with a rare disease...
New WHO analysis shows tobacco-leaf production continues to rise in Africa while global production falls, raising concerns for health, farmer livelihoods, the environment and sustainable...
The fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak in history has reached two new health zones in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with a total of 60 areas now affected, according to the latest...
 The Democratic Republic of the Congo began vaccinating people against Ebola on Thursday as health authorities work to slow the deadliest outbreak of the disease recorded in the...
The Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee...
The 45th meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (IHR or Regulations) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 14...
The economic costs from zoonotic and other infectious diseases run into billions of US dollars annually.  And according to World Bank estimates, antimicrobial resistance could lead to a loss of...
The World Health Organisation confirmed Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda has officially ended, while cautioning that transmission remains active in the neighboring Democratic Republic of...