The Commonwealth’s new strategic framework accelerates the elimination of cervical cancer, a highly preventable disease that claims hundreds of thousands of ...

Mandates or Markets? Geopolitical Rift Impairs Pandemic Preparedness as Crisis Funds Hit ‘Dangerous Lows’

Pandemic Preparedness

WHO emergency funds are running low, and global health leaders are concerned about a systemic paralysis in pandemic preparedness. In high-level ...

From Margin to Mainstream: Why Liver Health Should Sit at the Centre of the Global NCD Response

Inside View

The 79th World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD) last week. For those people working outside ...

WHO Executive Board Adopts Process for Election of Next Director General, With Powerful Role for Poor African States

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board (EB) decided on Monday that the first forum for candidates aspiring to become the ...

Snakebite – Long Ignored, Recently Recognized as Neglected Disease

Malaria & Neglected Diseases

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WHO to Convene Donor Conference on Gaza Rehabilitation

A stiffly-worded resolution approved this week by World Health Organization member states condemned the “wanton” destruction of Gaza’s health facilities ...

23/05/2026

UN Backs Landmark ICJ Climate Crisis Ruling, Defying US and Petrostates

The UN General Assembly voted 141-8 to endorse a landmark International Court of Justice opinion finding that states are bound ...

22/05/2026

Polio Eradication Needs Political Commitment as Conflict Makes Vaccination ‘Impossible’ in Areas Like North Yemen

The world is in the last stretch of polio eradication, but closing this gap will require political commitment, the World ...

21/05/2026

Snakebite – Long Ignored, Recently Recognized as Neglected Disease

Malaria & Neglected Diseases

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