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Measles cases rose nearly four-fold in first quarter 2019 - WHO
Higher rates of the preventable but contagious disease have been recorded in all regions, the United Nations agency said in a statement, appealing for better vaccination coverage.
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121 killed, nearly 600 wounded in Libya fighting: WHO
Fighting in Tripoli has killed 121 people and wounded 561 since commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive earlier this month to take the Libyan capital.
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Mozambique to start cholera vaccinations next week after cyclone
With tens of thousands of displaced people moved to makeshift camps, relief efforts have increasingly focused on containing outbreaks of waterborne and infectious diseases.
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WHO forum pitches for universal health care in Africa
Countries south of the Sahara account for roughly half of the five million children around the world who each year die before their fifth birthday, while 40% of people with the AIDS virus in Africa still do not have access to HIV drugs.
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WHO says aiming to halt DRC Ebola outbreak within six months
The ongoing Ebola outbreak, the 10th in DRC’s history, emerged in North Kivu in August 2018 and then spread to neighbouring Ituri province.
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WHO launches strategy to fight 'inevitable' flu pandemics
WHO's new strategy, for 2019 through 2030, aims to prevent seasonal influenza, control the virus's spread from animals to humans and prepare for the next pandemic.
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Turn it down! Millennials' music habit puts their hearing at risk - UN
Already 466 million people worldwide have debilitating hearing loss, up from 360 million in 2010 and the figure is expected to nearly double to 900 million, says WHO.
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DR Congo Ebola death toll passes 500: health ministry
Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga said that, for the first time, a vaccination programme had protected 76,425 people and prevented "thousands" of deaths.
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WHO looks at standards in 'uncharted water' of gene editing
The Chinese government last Thursday ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the editing of human genes, after a Chinese scientist said he had edited the genes of twin babies.
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DR Congo Ebola response efforts resume in Beni after clashes: WHO
DR Congo's health ministry had announced a suspension of operations in Beni after deadly clashes erupted Friday just a 'few metres' from a local emergency centre and the hotels of several response teams.
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Death toll from DRC cholera outbreak at 857
Health authorities have so far recorded 25,170 cases, occurring in 21 out of the country's 26 provinces, the WHO's office in the DRC said.
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Polluted Delhi air akin to death sentence, say doctors
Smog is blamed for the deaths of more than one million Indians every year and Delhi, which on Monday had emergency pollution levels more than 35 times WHO safe limit, has the worst air of any global capital.
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Yellow fever kills 10 in Ethiopia, WHO ships 1.45 million vaccines
The outbreak was confirmed in Wolaita Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region and has been traced back to a patient who fell ill on 21 August It has caused 35 suspected cases of the disease.
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WHO says air pollution kills 600,000 children every year
Air pollution can also cause childhood cancers, asthma, poor lung function, pneumonia and other types of acute lower respiratory infection, the report said.
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Battles begin to turn in long war on TB
Tuberculosis, a curable and preventable lung infection, killed more than 1.6 million people last year.
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WHO opts not to declare latest Ebola outbreak an international emergency
It’s nevertheless warning nine of the Congo’s eleven neighbours that they are at high risk of the deadly haemorrhagic disease spreading across the borders.
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WHO to meet on Congo's Ebola outbreak as toll soars
Congo’s health ministry said on Monday that in the past week alone 33 people were confirmed with Ebola virus and 24 of them died.
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Ebola response tightens in eastern DRC as 7 new cases confirmed: health ministry
Ebola has spread to Beni, a city of several hundred thousand people where scores of people have been confirmed infected.
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Zimbabwe launches cholera vaccination drive after 49 deaths: WHO
The cholera outbreak, first detected outside Harare on September 5, prompted the health ministry to declare an emergency in the capital.
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WHO: Congo Ebola outbreak could worsen rapidly
At least 100 people have died in the outbreak, out of 150 cases in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
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Zim govt declares cholera outbreak an emergency, police ban public gatherings
The ban was announced a day after the government declared the disease an emergency.
