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More than 5,000 newly graduated doctors have initiated a coordinated, nationwide strike across Iraq, effectively crippling public hospitals and exposing deep-seated administrative failures within the...

The Integrated National Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Programme (Jaheziya) announced the launch of the first integrated international training program for preparedness, readiness, and...

The World Health Organization has published Artificial intelligence and evidence-informed policy – emerging challenges and opportunities, a discussion paper examining how AI is reshaping the way...

Tobacco consumption in the Kingdom has transitioned from an isolated personal choice into a broader development challenge, affecting household expenditure, national healthcare budgets, and labor...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns the airstrike carried out by the Israeli army yesterday evening near the MSF-supported Jabal Amel Hospital in Sour (Tyre),...

For millions of Jordanians, the anxiety that once accompanied a cancer diagnosis — the dread of prohibitive costs, the labyrinth of paperwork, the need for medical exemptions — has been replaced...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that nearly three months into the conflict, Lebanon faces a deepening humanitarian emergency with a critical combination of displacement and...

It was during an air attack in eastern Afghanistan that 30-year-old Najeeba* felt her labour pains begin. Around her, families were already on the move, fleeing renewed hostilities along the...

he World Health Organization (WHO) praised the Ministry of Health’s announcement that the 1447 AH Hajj season was free of disease outbreaks or public health threats, commending Saudi Arabia’s...

Strong laboratory services are essential for detecting diseases early, confirming diagnoses, and supporting timely outbreak response. They also help guide treatment, strengthen surveillance, and...

Tajuddin Owaywali, head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), announced that he held discussions with senior officials from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation regarding joint...

The Ministry of Health announced that the 1447 AH Hajj season was entirely free of epidemic outbreaks or public health threats, confirming that the health of the pilgrims remained stable and...

Libya’s Ministry of Health, under the government appointed by the House of Representatives, announced Friday that no casualties or injuries have been reported so far following heavy rains and...

Tomorrow, May 31, marks World No Tobacco Day, held this year under the global theme "Unmasking the Appeal: Countering Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction." The campaign focuses on exposing the modern...

Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population said on Friday that a presidential cancer screening program has examined more than 18.1 million citizens since its launch two years ago, part of a broader...

A force affiliated with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed at least 27 people, including elderly residents, in an attack on villages west of Bara in Sudan’s North Kordofan...

“Failure to meet children’s basic needs in Gaza is trapping them in an endless cycle of suffering.  “The experiences of the desperate parents I met this past week can illustrate this better...

Eleven children have been ​killed or injured on average every 24 hours in Lebanon ‌over the last week, the U.N.'s children's agency said on Friday, as Israel has expanded strikes across the...

Akira was always a fast learner, her father Al Amin says with pride. At 6 months she was already saying her first words. At just over 4 years old, she had started to say some words in...

In response to the current outbreak of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases also reported in Uganda, WHO convened several of its...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued its first recommendation on the use of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) – commonly referred to as doxyPEP – for the prevention of...

The latest outbreak of a rare strain of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda has prompted several governments to take action in a bid to stop the spread of the...

Syria’s medical mission for the Hajj pilgrimage said it is providing around-the-clock healthcare services to Syrian pilgrims in Mina through a network of clinics equipped with modern medical...

This working paper offers a timely and in-depth exploration of the climate-health nexus, specifically focusing on the context of Bangladesh as this country faces some of the world’s highest global...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) today warned that the rapidly escalating Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could become the deadliest outbreak on record...

Under the patronage of H.E. the Minister of Public Health Dr Rakan Nassereddine, the handover ceremony brought together Japan’s Ambassador to Lebanon Yokota Kenji, WHO Representative in Lebanon Dr...