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The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the first to receive emergency validation from WHO since the outbreak...

WHO Launches Year-Long Campaign to Help 100 Million People Quit Tobacco WHO today launches a year-long global campaign for World No Tobacco Day 2021 - “Commit to Quit."  The new...

AWHO appoints co-chairs of Independent Commission on sexual misconduct during the Ebola response in North Kivu and Ituri, the Democratic Republic of the Congo The World Health Organization has appointed...

WHO to investigate allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Geneva - The World Health Organization, leadership and staff, are outraged by...

The World Health Organization’s first global report on sepsis finds that the effort to tackle millions of deaths and disabilities due to sepsis is hampered by serious gaps in knowledge, particularly in...

In WHO global pulse survey, 90% of countries report disruptions to essential health services since COVID-19 pandemic​ The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a first indicative survey on the impact...

Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 100 cases The number of cases in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has...

As schools worldwide struggle with the reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43 percent of schools around the world lacked access to basic handwashing...

 DR Congo Ebola Cases Rise, Surpass Previous Outbreak The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Equateur Province continues to grow, causing major concern as the World...

Access to HIV Medicines Severely Impacted By COVID-19 As AIDS Response Stalls By Admin Countries seek innovative ways to mitigate the impact of disruptions and keep services going Seventy-three countries...