Countries finalize historic pandemic agreement after three years of negotiations Developed after over three years of negotiations under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), the draft outlines a framework for strengthening international collaboration, ...

Israeli strike on hospital ‘further cripples’ Gaza’s fragile health system 15 April 2025 Peace and Security An Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday has further jeopardized already limited access to lifesaving ...

Thousands of Gaza patients waiting for urgent medical evacuation 14 April 2025 Health The Israeli bombardment of Al-Ahli, a Gaza City hospital, has put even more pressure on the remaining health facilities in the occupied ...

Millions displaced, health system in ruins as Sudan war fuels famine With fighting showing no sign of abating and humanitarian access extremely limited, the crisis in Sudan has become one of the world’s largest emergencies, ...

Preventable ‘meningitis belt’ deaths targeted in health agency action plan 10 April 2025 Health Millions of deaths could be avoided from meningitis if countries are able to adopt new guidelines designed to diagnose and treat ...

WHO warns of severe disruptions to health services amid funding cuts 10 April 2025 Health Recent funding cuts have caused “severe disruptions” to health services in almost three-quarters of all countries, according to the head ...

World Health Day: Focusing on women’s physical and mental health around the world Close to 300,000 women continue to die during pregnancy or childbirth each year. More than two million babies die in their first ...

Aid cuts threaten to roll back progress in ending maternal mortality The Trends in maternal mortality report was published by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN sexual and reproductive ...

World News in Brief: Cholera surges worldwide, DR Congo update, WHO leads global health emergency exercise The UN health agency registered almost 810,000 cases and 5,900 deaths from the preventable disease in 2024; that’s about ...

Sudan: Sexual violence used as weapon of terror against women and girls It is nearly two years since the brutal war between the forces of the military government in Khartoum and the Rapid Support Forces ...