I thank the United Kingdom, Qatar and Jordan for convening this important discussion on humanitarian access and health in Gaza. Nearly a year after the ceasefire, we know that progress is possible ...

Thank you, Commissioner, for your leadership, and for the European Union’s longstanding partnership with WHO. The European Union has consistently defended multilateralism, international solidarity and ...

From emergency contraception to longer-lasting implants and future contraceptives for men, the World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending a wider range of safe and effective options so people can ...

At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the adoption of the New ...

A new WHO report, Artificial Intelligence-related health research: ethics review and oversight, provides recommendations for researchers, ethics committees, regulators, funders and policy-makers to ...

The burden is enormous. Lead exposure is associated with more than 3.5 million deaths every year. This is a tragedy we can prevent. That is why WHO is developing a Global Action Plan and a Technical ...

The Quadripartite partners – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new self-paced online course, Behavioural Sciences for Better Health: An ...

WHO’s Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) published a report on childhood cancer survival, presenting the first country-comparable five-year survival estimates for children and adolescent ...

The theme of World Patient Safety Day 2026 is "Safe care for noncommunicable diseases". For people living with long-term conditions, patient safety extends beyond hospitals and health facilities into ...

For this update, reporting was done for the calendar year 2025, although a few countries reported for a different 12-month period (e.g. India reported for April 2025-March 2026 and Canada for the ...

Avian influenza is a complex global challenge with consequences for animal health, human health, biodiversity, food security and livelihoods. In recent decades, high pathogenicity avian influenza ...