US president Donald Trump has taken a series of decisions that have delivered body blows to the global management of health.

President Javier Milei’s office announced that Argentina will exit the WHO and ban gender-affirming care for minors, ...

Abrupt changes to programmes including USAID inhibit global efforts to stop disease such as HIV, malaria and more, say ...

A Georgia sculptor gave birth during the coronavirus pandemic. Five years later, she is designing a monument honoring those who have died with COVID-19.

Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to ...

The World Health Organization declares when an outbreak of an infectious disease becomes a global pandemic, like COVID-19. It has not declared H5N1 a pandemic. While bird flu hasn’t been declared a ...

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...

The Israeli organization representing families of hostages in Gaza has celebrated the news that three high-profile men will ...

In 2022, World Health Organization (WHO) certified the country as having eliminated ... To mitigate this risk, WHO, with support from partners including the Carter Centre and CDC Atlanta, has ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

For the second time in 2 years, an ongoing mpox outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO.1 Following the global surge of clade IIb mpox in 2022, African ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder ...