Antimicrobial resistance: Here is how National AMR hub helps contain the silent pandemic

India was the highest consumer of antimicrobials, followed by China and the United States

WHO’s urgent call: World needs new antimicrobial resistance vaccines

Urges equitable and global access to existing vaccines as well  

Monkeypox is endemic in Nigeria. But surveillance isn’t what it should be

Virologist Oyewale Tomori explains what Nigeria, where the virus is endemic, should be doing to prepare for an outbreak

Measles cases double in 1st 2 months of 2022: What does this warn us of

Conditions ripe for serious outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses: WHO, UNICEF 

Stop attacking health workers, cease hostilities in Ukraine: WHO

Attacks on health workers have led to at least 12 deaths and 34 injuries in Ukraine since February 24

New guidelines on abortion care will help prevent more than 25 million unsafe abortions: WHO

WHO has released more than 50 recommendations that include clinical practice, health care delivery and law and policy interventions to support …

The World Bank and IMF are using flawed logic in their quest to do away with the informal sector

What’s put forward as pro-poor interventions in the reports in fact risk actively increasing inequality and further disadvantaging …

WHO welcomes Afghanistan’s decision to resume door-to-door polio vaccination

The campaign will also cover more than 3.3 million children across the country who didn’t have access to the vaccine so far

Taliban takeover will impact Afghanistan healthcare: What’s WHO doing about it

WHO working with new Taliban regime to see to it that healthcare services are not impacted  

World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UNICEF pledge close to $600 million to combat cervical cancer

Commitments at first ever global forum to eliminate the fourth most prevalent cancer among women

World No Tobacco Day: Tobacco farming adding to global food crisis, says WHO

Growing sustainable crops can help address acute global food insecurity, governments urged to stop tobacco farming subsidies

On World Oceans Day 2024, IUCN chief urges countries to strive for High Seas Biodiversity Treaty

Seven countries have ratified the treaty so far; it will become international law only when that number reaches 60  

World Health Assembly: Countries approve draft to improve organ transplantation availability, including cells, tissues

Despite the progress made over the past two decades, access to transplantation is not equitable among member countries, resolution notes

WHO confirms first death from bird flu strain H5N2 in Mexico

59-year-old patient had underlying multiple health conditions, but officials face challenges in tracing the source of infection

COVID-19 pandemic erased decade of gains in life expectancy, NCDs deaths on the rise: World Health Statistics Report

New Pandemic Agreement important not only to strengthen global health security, but to protect long-term investments in health and promote equity …

World on track to shatter temperature records for 12 consecutive months in May 2024

Both air and ocean temperatures have been on a record-breaking streak for the past 12 months and 13 months, respectively

Free and fearless journalism in a fight for survival

Freedom of the press, a cornerstone of democracy, is under attack around the world, just when we need it more than ever

World Sparrow Day 2024: How a Mysuru woman is trying to bring sparrows back to the city

Kokila Ramesh Jain makes customised terracotta nests to help attract the birds; she also organises citizen awareness events to highlight their …

Idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers, survey of nearly 800 academics reveals

Researchers from the EU and other OECD nations demonstrated high levels of scepticism

37 of 55 countries facing health worker shortages in Africa: WHO

Shortage of health workers in Africa is predicted to reach 6.1 million by 2030

Monkeypox mortality high in Africa where vaccine remains out of reach

Fewer new cases in last 2 weeks but distribution pattern has changed  

Monkeypox not public health emergency of international concern yet. Do we need to update our understanding of this label?

Emergency Committee meeting indication enough of how serious the monkeypox outbreak is

Countries agree to sustainably finance WHO amid COVID-19 pandemic

The aim is to reach 50 per cent of WHO’s budget by 2028-2029 if possible

COVID-19 impacted global migration trend in 2020: UN report

The number of emigrants increased to 281 million in 2020 from 272 million in 2019

Climate disasters displace more people than conflicts now: World Migration Report 2022

In India, disasters displaced 4 million people in 2020