New vaccine development
WHO: A new World Health Organization (WHO) study published today in eBioMedicine names 17 pathogens that regularly cause diseases in communities as top priorities for new vaccine development. The WHO study is the first global effort to systematically prioritize endemic pathogens based on criteria that included regional disease burden, antimicrobial resistance risk and socioeconomic impact.
The study reconfirms longstanding priorities for vaccine research and...
United Against Outbreaks
WHO: The Heads of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group (WBG), and the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed on broad principles for cooperation on pandemic preparedness. This cooperation will allow a scaling up of support to countries to prevent, detect and respond to public health threats through the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), the WBG’s financial and technical...
WHO updates guidelines on treatments for COVID-19
WHO has updated its guidelines for COVID-19 therapeutics, with revised recommendations for patients with non-severe COVID-19. This is...
Forbes Middle East, in collaboration with PureHealth, the largest healthcare platform in the Middle East, has announced the return of the Forbes Middle East...
Unprecedented focus on global public health at UN General Assembly
WHO is urging leaders meeting at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA...
The Joint Committee for Security and Safety announced that their gas station safety campaign
The Joint Committee for Security and Safety, representing the Ministry of...
Investments in Digital Can Accelerate Improvements in Health Care
The World Bank: Digital technology can strengthen health systems, improve health financing and public health, and...
New global initiative on digital health supported by the G20 Presidency
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the G20 India presidency announced a new Global...
Enterovirus-Echovirus 11 Infection - the European Region
Situation at a glance
Since the Disease Outbreak News published on 31 May 2023 which reported enterovirus, Echovirus 11 (E-11) infection in...
WHO calls for safe and ethical AI for health
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for caution to be exercised in using artificial intelligence...
Awards for public health in the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly
During a moving ceremony at the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly in Geneva, awards were presented...
Massive efforts needed to reduce salt intake and protect lives
A first-of-its-kind World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world is...
WHO launches flash appeal: Earthquake response in Türkiye and Whole of Syria
The World Health Organization has launched an updated flash appeal for US$ 84.5...
