BRUSSELS: The United States, the World Health Organization's top donor, is resisting proposals to make the agency more independent, four officials involved in the...
GAVI, is backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), donor governments and others, funds immunization programs for poor nations that cannot afford to buy vaccines
The decision could help put to rest decades of debate among experts over how to define burnout, and whether it should be considered a medical condition.
Measles cases worldwide jumped more than 30 percent last year compared to 2016, with increases recorded in wealthy European countries like Germany where vaccination...
LONDON: Global health authorities need to counter a worrying lull in the fight against malaria by focusing their efforts on the near-dozen mostly African...
GENEVA: More than one in four deaths in children under five are linked to polluted environments, according to two new World Health Organization reports published...
World Diabetes Day is being observed across the world today.
World Diabetes Day was first observed in 1991 by International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the...
LONDON: Dr Sania Nishtar, Pakistan’s candidate for the Director General World Health Organization (WHO), has presented her vision and plan for the WHO at...
The risk of Zika virus infections at the Olympic Games is both low and manageable, the chief of the World Health Organization said on Friday, a week before the event kicks off in Rio de Janeiro.
ISLAMABAD: Swiss pharmaceuticals firm Novartis AG said it has stopped making tuberculosis drugs in Pakistan in a dispute over pricing, prompting fears of a health crisis due to a shortage of drugs in a country with the world's fifth-highest TB rates.
Early treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can dramatically reduce the odds of passing the deadly disease on to others, and the protection persists for years, according to final results from a major study that looked at the timing of antiretroviral therapy, or ART.
LONDON: Almost $122 million is needed to prevent and manage the medical complications of the Zika virus spreading throughout the Americas and causing birth defects in babies, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Guinea has reached the end of active Ebola virus transmission, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, the second such declaration from the country at the epicenter of the world's worst outbreak of the disease.