The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) ...

The World Health Organization has formally recognized the pivotal role of a number of heads of state and government in securing the adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the Seventy-eighth World ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has placed Saima Wazed Putul, its embattled regional director for South-East Asia and ...

“These findings suggest that policies and public health strategies promoting walking could help to reduce the occurrence of ...

Schistosomiasis (SCH) and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) are among the world’s most persistent neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) — a group of conditions that disproportionately affect the world ...

Saima Wazed, Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia and daughter of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has ...

As a child has reportedly died in Liverpool after contracting measles, Yahoo News looks at what the disease is and what the symptoms are.

The campaign plans to vaccinate more than 2 million people in the most affected municipalities in the provinces of Cabinda, Kwanza Sul, Huíla, Lunda Norte, Namibe and Zaire - regions where there is ...

The United Nations warned yesterday that dire fuel shortages in the Gaza Strip had reached “critical levels”, threatening to ...

A new report shows the state’s cesarean section rate for low-risk mothers is the second highest in the U.S.  A report ...

The Director General of the World Health Organization, WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has described the death of former Nigerian ...