The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday released its second Global hypertension report, showing that 1.4 billion people lived with hypertension in 2024, yet just over one in five h ...

More than 1 billion people are living with mental health disorders, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO), with conditions such as anxiety and depression i ...

After more than three years of intensive negotiations, WHO Member States took a major step forward in efforts to make the world safer from future pandemics, by forging a draft agreement f ...

Following a nearly century-long effort, Georgia has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Around 846 million people aged between 15 and 49 are living with genital herpes infections – more than 1 in 5 of this age-group globally – according to new estimates released ...

The World Health Organization has listed 17 pathogens as a priority to develop a new vaccine.

In October 2024, WHO and partners, in collaboration with Member States, activated the Global Health Emergency Corps (GHEC) for the first time to provide support to countries facing mpox o ...

Countries facing conflict, natural disasters and humanitarian crises are struggling to provide routine childhood immunisations leaving many children vulnerable to the resurgence of polio, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced a new milestone digital health collaboration recently to expand the Hajj health card initiative to support th ...