GENEVA — Rotting teeth, swollen gums and oral cancers: nearly half the world’s population suffer from mouth diseases, the World Health Organization sa...
To commemorate World AIDS Day, U.S. Ambassador MaryKay Carlson led the handover of 86,000 U.S. government-donated HIV viral load testing cartridges va...
On 1 December, World AIDS Day 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) is called on global leaders and citizens to boldly recognize and address the i...
WHO is launching a global scientific process to update the list of priority pathogens—agents that can cause outbreaks or pandemics—to guide global inv...
29 November 2022, Geneva: Injuries and violence take the lives of some 12 000 people around the world each day. As reflected in a new World Health Org...
Measles vaccination coverage has steadily declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, a record high of nearly 40 million children ...
The ubiquitous Christmas plastic lanterns that have replaced what used to be paper-based parols may contain a cancer-causing chemical that has been ta...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Vaccine Market Report 2022, which was published recently, shows that inequitable distribution is not uniq...
Maintaining a healthy weight is important for controlling type 2 diabetes, but for patients who are taking insulin, this can be more challenging, says...