The WHO has identified air pollution as the biggest environmental threat to human health globally. Each year, an estimated ...

More than 47 million health professionals, patients, advocates, representatives from civil society organizations, and ...

Ahead of next week’s WHO conference on the health impacts of air pollution, health professionals are calling for governments to urgently protect their populations from the deadly health impacts of ...

Chad has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality. A group of midwives helped but now their jobs are on the line — one ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing calls to reconsider its costly 11th Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) due to funding constraints and ...

Health professionals, patients, advocates, and individuals worldwide have come together to demand immediate action to combat air pollution ...

In an unprecedented show of unity, more than 47 million health professionals, patients, advocates, representatives from civil society organizations, and individuals worldwide have signed a resounding ...

At the WHO Global Health Issues Press Conference on March 17, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) remained silent on ...

Breaking: The WHO issued its starkest warning yet on the consequences of the abrupt cessation of U.S. global health funding, ...

The Trump administration’s decision to abandon DEI—diversity, equity and inclusion— which was aimed at promoting fair treatment in the work place, is having its repercussions at the United Nations.

The cancellation of USAID contracts has threatened critical global health research. Plus, new guidance to prevent HIV in ...

NPR reflects on the cascading events of March 11, 2020, the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.