Health
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US aid funding cuts put HIV prevention at risk, warns UNAIDS
The US pause in foreign assistance funding has created “confusion” in the vital work of community HIV prevention, despite a…
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Gaza: UN health agency urges rapid scale-up of medevacs as thousands remain in critical condition
More than 12,000 critically ill and injured patients, including at least 5,000 children, urgently need to be evacuated from Gaza,…
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World News in Brief: US executive orders continue, killings in Sudan, breast cancer alert in Africa, human rights in Tunisia
New executive orders issued by the White House are set to further impact the cooperative, multilateral work of the United…
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Explainer: How family planning saves lives
Sakina Sani was married off when she was 12 years old amid conflict and food shortages in northern Nigeria. She became…
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World News in Brief: WHO chief asks US to reconsider withdrawal, gender parity remains distant goal, call for rethink on Nordic alcohol law change
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday he would “welcome constructive dialogue” with the United States…
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What is the World Health Organization and why does it matter?
When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th…
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It’s not censorship to stop hateful online content, insists UN rights chief
Social media posts inciting hate and division have “real world consequences” and there is a responsibility to regulate content, the…
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Avian flu risk still ‘low’ after first US patient dies from H5N1 virus: WHO
A day after the United States reported its first human death from avian flu, the UN World Health Organization (WHO)…
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WHO continues to urge China to share data five years after COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week reflected on COVID-19, and ongoing efforts to understand the disease, five years after…
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Israel attacks push Gaza healthcare ‘to brink of collapse’
Israel’s pattern of deadly attacks on and near hospitals in Gaza, and associated combat, have pushed the healthcare system to…
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