WHO sounds alarm on viral hepatitis infections claiming 3500 lives each day

WHO sounds alarm on viral hepatitis infections claiming 3500 lives each...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2024 Global Hepatitis Report, the number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis is increasing. The disease...
Getting children back to school in deadly gang-ravaged Haiti

Getting children back to school in deadly gang-ravaged Haiti

Students in the capital Port-au-Prince have missed hundreds of hours of class time over the past year and now, now, more than one million...
Six months of war leave Al-Shifa hospital in ruins, WHO mission reports

Six months of war leave Al-Shifa hospital in ruins, WHO mission...

A WHO-led multi-agency mission accessed Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza on 5 April to conduct a preliminary assessment of the extent of destruction and...
First Person: The genocide survivor protected by a mass murderer

First Person: The genocide survivor protected by a mass murderer

In the early 1990s, Mr. Murangwa was a star player for Rayon Sports in the capital Kigali. As a Tutsi, his life was in...
WHO calls for action to uphold right to health amidst inaction, injustice and crises

WHO calls for action to uphold right to health amidst inaction,...

To mark World Health Day (7 April), the World Health Organization (WHO) is running the “My health, my right” campaign to champion the right...
Sudan: Aid lifeline reaches Darfur region in bid to avert ‘hunger catastrophe’

Sudan: Aid lifeline reaches Darfur region in bid to avert ‘hunger...

“The UN WFP has managed to bring desperately needed food and nutrition supplies into Darfur; the first WFP assistance to reach the war-wracked region...
Global deployment of rapid diagnostic tests to boost fight against cholera

Global deployment of rapid diagnostic tests to boost fight against cholera

More than 1.2 million cholera rapid diagnostic tests will be shipped to 14 countries in largest-ever global deployment, with the first shipment landing today...
UN underscores commitment to stay and deliver in Myanmar

UN underscores commitment to stay and deliver in Myanmar

The expansion of fighting throughout the country has deprived communities of basic needs and access to essential services and has had a devastating impact...
WHO unveils a digital health promoter harnessing generative AI for public health

WHO unveils a digital health promoter harnessing generative AI for public...

Ahead of World Health Day, focused on ‘My Health, My Right’, the World Health Organization (WHO) announces the launch of S.A.R.A.H., a digital health...
From Desperation to Determination: Indonesian Trafficking Survivors Demand Justice

From Desperation to Determination: Indonesian Trafficking Survivors Demand Justice

Rokaya needed time to recover after illness forced her to quit as a live-in maid in Malaysia and return home to Indramayu, West Java....
First Person: ‘Courageous’ 12-year-old reports relative after being raped in Madagascar

First Person: ‘Courageous’ 12-year-old reports relative after being raped in Madagascar

UN News spoke to Commissioner Aina Randriambelo, who described what efforts her country is making to promote gender equality and a better understanding of...
WHO Member States agree to resume negotiations aimed at finalizing the world’s first pandemic agreement

WHO Member States agree to resume negotiations aimed at finalizing the...

WHO Member States agreed to resume negotiations aimed at finalizing a pandemic agreement during 29 April to 10 May. The decision came at today’s...
New $1.4 billion plan to support South Sudanese refugees

New $1.4 billion plan to support South Sudanese refugees

Since the start of the conflict in South Sudan over 10 years ago, growing humanitarian needs compounded by dire food shortages, continued insecurity, and...
WHO launches CoViNet: a global network for coronaviruses

WHO launches CoViNet: a global network for coronaviruses

WHO has launched a new network for coronaviruses, CoViNet, to facilitate and coordinate global expertise and capacities for early and accurate detection, monitoring and...
First Person: ‘We had to avoid stepping on the bodies in the streets’ in Darfur

First Person: ‘We had to avoid stepping on the bodies in...

Sudan, and Darfur in particular, are facing a humanitarian and security crisis after a war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army...
DR Congo mission chief says humanitarian disaster ‘unfolding before our very eyes’

DR Congo mission chief says humanitarian disaster ‘unfolding before our very...

Ms. Keita, who also heads the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MONUSCO, sounded the alarm over the humanitarian disaster “unfolding before our very...
WHO calls for greater attention to violence against women with disabilities and older women

WHO calls for greater attention to violence against women with disabilities...

Older women and women with disabilities face particular risk of abuse, yet their situation is largely hidden in most global and national violence-related data,...
Working together for a healthier, safer world: WHO and IPU renew partnership

Working together for a healthier, safer world: WHO and IPU renew...

<p>The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and WHO today signed a new Memorandum of Understanding, reaffirming the critical role that parliamentarians play in enabling good health...
UN’s Guterres begins solidarity mission to Egypt and Jordan amid regional crises

UN’s Guterres begins solidarity mission to Egypt and Jordan amid regional...

In a tradition that started when he served as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to shine a light on Muslim communities in distress,...