Pakistan launches nationwide measles-rubella vaccination campaign to protect 34 million children
The Government of Pakistan’s Federal Directorate for Immunization (FDI), in partnership with…
Zimbabwe strengthens integrated cancer services to improve women’s health
Zimbabwe is intensifying efforts to improve the prevention, early detection and treatment…
More countries report rising levels of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, warns WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection,…
World marks cervical cancer elimination day as countries accelerate action
November 17 marks the World Cervical Cancer Elimination Day – mandated by…
Egypt becomes the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Egypt has successfully eliminated trachoma…
Catch-up Immunization Campaign Launched in the Gaza Strip
UNICEF, UNRWA, WHO and partners, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health,…
Fiji becomes the 26th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
In a landmark public health achievement, Fiji has been validated by the…
Health Alert: WHO issues alert on contaminated cough syrups in India linked to child fatalities
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a medical product alert after…
Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B
In a landmark public health achievement, the World Health Organization (WHO) has…
Ebola vaccination begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Vaccination of frontline health workers and contacts of people infected with Ebola…