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Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a “catastrophic moral failure”, just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to agree to a limited relaxation of…

Exclusive: Most important antibiotics for human health still used in supply chains of major US food companies, risking spread of superbugs

The chief scientist of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday she was leaving the agency, the first of a series of high-profile departures expected at the global health body as it prepares for a post-pandemic future.

Cholera cases are overwhelming Haiti as experts warn the situation could worsen now that the country is bustling once again after a paralyzing fuel blockade that lasted two months

Fever among vaccinated COVID patients is becoming more rare, a new study in the U.S. and UK found. But that wasn’t the case for recent COVID patients in India.

Authorities plan to acquire enough Covid-19 vaccines next year initially for 18 million people in high-risk groups, with the number of shots each person will need subject to World Health Organization (WHO) guidance.

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday sought compensation for the unprecedented destruction that was caused in the country in summer when climate-induced flooding killed 1,739 people and affected 33 million and displacing hundreds of thousands

The World Health Organization has revealed that at least 15,000 people died in Europe because of extreme hot weather in 2022, with Spain and Germany among the worst-affected countries.

Human Rights Watch Monday accused the government in Damascus and Türkiye of exacerbating Syria's deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country's Kurdish-held northeast. Syria has recorded 81 deaths and more than 24,000 suspected cases of the extremely virulent disease since September, according to the World Health…