WHO concerned following raid on North Gaza hospital
Reports of Israeli troops storming one of the last functioning [...]
Gaza: Palestinians are dying amid lethal evacuation delays
Children and disabled people are facing ever more horrific conditions [...]
Gaza: Israeli strikes delay polio vaccine campaign in the north
Intense bombardments, mass displacements and lack of access in northern [...]
UNICEF: 85 per cent of children affected by polio in 2023 lived in fragile, conflict-affected areas
Countries facing conflict, natural disasters and humanitarian crises are struggling [...]
World News in Brief: Egypt malaria-free, tropical storm lashes Cuba, Mozambique killings, WHO support for South Sudan
The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially certified Egypt as malaria-free. [...]
Lebanon: Cholera fears for communities uprooted by war
The UN health agency has warned that a first case [...]
UNICEF seeks $165 million for therapeutic food to combat ‘silent killer’
Nearly two million children suffering from severe wasting are at [...]
Invest more in vaccines to reduce deaths from drug-resistant superbugs: WHO
More investment in vaccines could prevent deaths due to antimicrobial [...]
End ‘collective amnesia’ over COVID-19, says UN health agency WHO
Our “collective amnesia” about how bad the COVID-19 pandemic was [...]
1 in 7 children and teens impacted by mental health conditions
Around one in seven children and adolescents aged 10 to [...]
WHO highlights mental health crisis facing Israel’s frontline workers a year after 7 October attack
As the world remembers the Hamas-led terror attacks on Israel [...]
WHO calls for action to halt rise in hearing loss in Africa
The number of people in Africa living with hearing loss [...]
A letter from a mother in Gaza: Hardships, heartbreak and hope
‘‘This story doesn’t start from day one. It starts from [...]
WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it [...]
WHO calls for urgent overhaul of care systems for older people as population ages
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday issued an [...]
LIVE: World leaders adopt declaration to tackle growing threat of superbugs
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is an invisible killer, so world [...]
Invisible killer: What is antimicrobial resistance?
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an invisible killer, which is directly [...]
World News in Brief: 1.3 billion teens suffering mental disorders, Russia’s Indigenous Peoples face ‘extinction’, Belarus rights update
At least one in seven youngsters has a mental disorder. [...]
Mpox alert: UNICEF issues $58.8 million appeal to halt outbreak in Africa
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, issued an urgent appeal on [...]
Sanitary disaster in Gaza ‘worsening by the day’, warns UNRWA
Overcrowded shelters in Gaza, a lack of running water and [...]