WHO 79th World Health Assembly: World Health Organization member states meet in Geneva. Deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks are major con...

Soaring tourism to Antarctica, driven by climate change fears, raises concerns about contamination and damage to the fragile ecosystem. A r...

WHO member countries have approved a pandemic agreement aimed at improving global prevention, preparedness, and response efforts. The treat...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the WHO, citing mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and financial...

Over 300 civil society and public health activists have expressed concerns in an open letter to the President of India about the lack of tr...

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/WHO (EXPLAINER, PIX)EXPLAINER-How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics

The world is "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)...

WHO member states reached a consensus Sunday on kick-starting the process towards a pandemic treaty. The draft decision was secured after c...

The draft makes no reference to the word “treaty” but, among other things, calls for the creation of an “intergovernmental negotiating body...

In the wake of diplomatic wrangling, a draft resolution at the special World Health Assembly stops short of calling for work toward specifi...

The three-day meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva comes with the planet still besieged by Covid-19, nearly two years o...

Speaking at a Geneva-based event on trade and COVID-19, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he hoped that the next ph...

Leaders from 25 countries, the EU and the World Health Organisation (WHO) sought to get the ground rules down in writing to streamline and ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and leaders, including Boris Johnson of Britain, Mario Draghi of Ital...

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health, in its report "The Outbreak of Pandemic COVID-19 And its Management", underlined the need o...

In a letter last week, the Indus Commissioner of India told his Pakistani counterpart that it is not conducive to hold the meeting at the A...

In a statement, India said the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need for international cooperation, including institution...