Revised scope and direction for the Smart Vaccination Certificate and WHO’s role in the Global Health Trust Framework
WHO joins the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration on World Environment Day
WHO and European Union’s funded Health and Care Cluster collaborating on Digital and Assistive Technologies for Ageing webinar series
What worked for us: knowledge-sharing to improve reproductive health programming
New US$50 billion health, trade and finance roadmap to end the pandemic and secure a global recovery
WHO validates Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use and issues interim policy recommendations
Statement on protection of health care in complex humanitarian emergencies
WHO and Canada: Working together to end the acute phase of the COVID-19 and equipping countries to emerge from the pandemic with stronger and more equitable health systems
My Hero is You: one year on, planning for a sequel gets underway
WHO announces simple, easy-to-say labels for SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern
The Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly closes
World Health Assembly recommends reinforcement of measures to protect mental health during public health emergencies
Update from the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly – 29 May 2021
Statement by the Malaria Policy Advisory Group on the urgent need to address the high prevalence of pfhrp2/3 gene deletions in the Horn of Africa and beyond
World Health Assembly adopts new resolution on malaria
Update from the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly – 28 May 2021
WHO supports people quitting tobacco to reduce their risk of severe COVID-19
World Health Assembly approves extension of the Global Coordination Mechanism for Noncommunicable Diseases
Public notice and comment on new Global Validation Advisory Committee (GVAC) members
The President of the Republic of Costa Rica and the Director-General of the World Health Organization call once again on all WHO Member States to actively support the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP)
Statement on the eighth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
New findings from the ODYSSEY trial confirm superiority of dolutegravir-based ART in young children
Launch WHO guidelines for the management of symptomatic sexually transmitted infections
WHO warns that HIV infection increases risk of severe and critical COVID-19
Message from Director SRH/HRP
COVID-19 pandemic leads to major backsliding on childhood vaccinations, new WHO, UNICEF data shows
Webinar series on Rural Health Equity
WHO issues new recommendations on human genome editing for the advancement of public health
WHO launches Guidelines for Recreational Water Quality as summer heats up
COVID-19 subcommittee of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS): updated guidance regarding myocarditis and pericarditis reported with COVID-19 mRNA vaccines
New SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid diagnostic tests online course
UN report: Pandemic year marked by spike in world hunger
World Zoonosis Day 6 July: Online learning supports governments to operationalize a One Health approach in countries
WHO releases first guidelines on hepatitis C virus self-testing
New WHO recommendations issued to improve access to rapid molecular tests for the detection of TB and drug-resistant TB
WHO recommends life-saving interleukin-6 receptor blockers for COVID-19 and urges producers to join efforts to rapidly increase access
Active TB Drug Safety Monitoring and Management (aDSM) global database: Outcome of the assessment and future of data reporting
New study highlights unacceptably high global prevalence of syphilis among men who have sex with men
New data on the public health impact of chemicals: knowns and unknowns
WHO global conference on communicating science during health emergencies sparks enormous public interest