The world is demanding transparency following reports of pneumonic plague in Russia. At present, it is not possible to make a full risk assessment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
WorldThe Ebola outbreak in Congo-Kinshasa is still spreading, but efforts to contain the infection appear to be working, according to the World Health Organization.
WorldThe head of the World Health Organization, WHO, fought back tears when he on Thursday urged to show mercy in its war against Gaza. I beg you to show mercy. It is good for you and good for the Palestinians. It is good for humanity, he said in a speech at WHO's annual meeting.
WorldAround 100 UN trucks with emergency aid have been permitted to roll into Gaza on Tuesday. The UN estimates that 14,000 infants are suffering from acute malnutrition.
WorldWhen the World Health Organization WHO is now launching its annual top meeting, it is overshadowed by more challenges than ever. One question is how the absence of the USA affects other countries' willingness to cooperate.
WorldIsrael is to allow a very limited amount of emergency aid into Gaza after nearly eleven weeks of blockade. The plan is then to bypass trusted aid organizations and let private security firms handle the deliveries. A deliberate delaying tactic, according to aid profile Jan Egeland.
WorldSeveral trucks have entered Gaza with emergency aid – the first in nearly three months. The news comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) has alerted that two million Gazans are starving. Following Israel's announcement that it will take control over the entire Gaza Strip, Western countries are threatening with sanctions.
WorldThe World Health Organization (WHO) is forced to lay off a significant part of the staff and scale down operations after the US withdrawal. Very painful decisions, says Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
WorldIsrael has attacked the al-Ahli hospital – which is said to be the last functioning one in northern Gaza Strip. A child died when the building was evacuated. The World Health Organization (WHO) condemns the attack.
WorldThe World Health Organization (WHO) must reduce its budget by a fifth following the USA's decision to leave the UN agency, according to an internal email that the news agency AFP has taken part of.
WorldMore than 630 trucks with humanitarian aid entered the besieged Gaza Strip on the first day of the ceasefire, according to the UN's disaster relief organization, Ocha. At least 300 of them have reached northern Gaza.
WorldThe World Health Organization (WHO) demands that Israel release the hospital chief of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza after he was detained during intense raids on the hospital.
WorldA civilian plane with hundreds of passengers had just landed when Israel carried out airstrikes against the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, according to the UN's Yemen coordinator Julien Harneis.
WorldThe Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen claims to have fired a missile at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel – a day after Israel carried out raids against the airport in Sanaa in Yemen. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemns what he calls an "escalation" of the conflict.
WorldIsrael has carried out attacks on targets belonging to the Islamist Huthi movement in Yemen, confirms Israel's military. The WHO's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was at the airport in Sanaa when it was attacked.
WorldUp to 60 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in the last 24 hours, reports The Guardian, citing health authorities in the Hamas-ruled strip. In northern Gaza, direct artillery fire is reported against one of the few functioning hospitals.
WorldSix people, including four children, have been injured in an attack on a polio vaccination center in Gaza, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
WorldEgypt is now free from malaria, announces the World Health Organization (WHO). In a press release, the fight to eradicate the disease in the country is described as "a hundred-year effort" and an end to a disease that has existed since "ancient times".
WorldIsraeli forces have withdrawn from the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza after reports that more than 40 employees had been detained. Images published on social media show how the courtyard has been leveled to the ground and hospital wards vandalized.
WorldTwelve Palestinians in northern Gaza are reported to have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting for emergency aid. WHO has lost contact with staff at a hospital in Jabalia after reports of an Israeli raid.
WorldNearly 90 people are either dead or missing after Israel's attack on Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, according to Palestinian authorities. Many of them are women and children. The death toll is exaggerated, claims Israel. Meanwhile, alarm reports are coming in from several hospitals.
WorldSudan's regime rejects a UN demand for an "independent and impartial" force to protect millions of vulnerable inhabitants. The WHO chief says that more than 20,000 people have been killed in the civil war that has lasted for 16 months.
WorldThe first vaccine doses against mpox are expected to arrive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo within the next few days. The hope is that the outbreak can be over within six months, according to WHO.
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