UN Task Force on NCDs: Roadmap for joint action across the Government and UN system to support Zambia tackle noncommunicable diseases
Strategic review of child health worldwide analyses past lessons to chart the way forward
UN, international health and development agencies to promote environmentally and socially responsible procurement of health commodities
FAO/WHO conference stresses need for transformation of food systems across all sectors
Malnutrition in the crosshairs
Egypt leverages domestic funding to eliminate schistosomiasis
WHO issues new guidance on HIV self-testing ahead of World AIDS Day
Partners in the Greater Mekong Subregion mobilize around malaria elimination goal
WHO convenes experts to sustain progress against soil-transmitted helminthiases and schistosomiasis
UN human rights experts urge countries to increase efforts to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, and end inappropriate marketing of breast-milk substitutes
9th Global conference on health promotion: Global leaders agree to promote health in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goals
Eastern Aleppo without any hospitals for more than 250,000 residents
Fifth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) regarding microcephaly, other neurological disorders and Zika virus
WHO and the World Bank engage in new funding framework agreements
WHO welcomes global health funding for malaria vaccine
Five-year WHO investigation shows that LLINs remain a highly effective tool in the malaria fight
WHO condemns massive attacks on five hospitals in Syria
Morocco defeats trachoma
Statement of the 11th IHR Emergency Committee regarding the international spread of poliovirus
Visceral leishmaniasis: WHO publishes validation document as countries approach elimination
Youth and decent work in the health and social care sector
Global Polio Eradication Initiative welcomes the Organization of the Islamic Conference decision to step up effort to eradicate polio
Mass immunization campaign launched to protect 15 million children from polio, as outbreak in Nigeria spreads across West Africa
The price of better health in Iraq: an extra US$ 14 per person per year
Musculoskeletal conditions affect millions
Health and Finance Ministers to address need for worldwide increase in health investment
Global search for SARS vaccine gains momentum
WHO and FAO announce global initiative to promote consumption of fruit and vegetables
World Health Organization steps up action against substandard and counterfeit medicines
Diabetes cases could double in developing countries in next 30 years
US$ 341 million needed for health of 45 million people in crises
Thiamine deficient infant formula
Global AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating; highest number of HIV infections and deaths ever
WHO adds new fixed dose combinations to its list of quality products for AIDS treatment
World Health Organization and UNAIDS unveil plan to get 3 million AIDS patients on treatment by 2005
New book demonstrates how climate change impacts on health
The Health Academy
SARS case in laboratory worker in Taiwan, China
Urgent work needed to rebuild health care systems
Half a million patients suffering from tuberculosis to get free life-saving medicines
