The Latest Breaking News from WHO

Other lives: Linguist who played key roles in Norwich, through the Friends of Eaton Park and the twinning association with Rouen

Three years ago, on March 11 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus first formally described COVID-19 as a pandemic.

The World Health Organization has fired its top official in the Western Pacific

Patients’ access to lifesaving medicine is under threat because an anti-abortion rights organization sued in federal district court to overrule the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, which has been used to terminate early pregnancies for almost a quarter century in the U.S. If the judge, appointed by the…

On International Women's Day, which falls today, WHO is calling for intensified action in the South-East Asia Region and across the world to ensure that every woman and girl, everywhere has timely and equitable access to digital innovations and technologies that can protect, promote and support health and well-being, and…

The study published in "Lancet Planetary Health" shows that 99.99 percent of the world has has some level of a dangerous pollutant.

Watch from Switzerland as the World Health Organisation briefs the media on health impacts and needs in Ukraine.

The unexplained poisoning incidents have come at a fraught time for young girls in Iran who have been targeted for their role in leading nationwide anti-government protests

Experts are on pins and needles over an avian virus called H5N1 that has killed 53% of the humans it infected