Last week saw increasing transmission of COVID-19 in the majority of countries in the WHO European Region, with 1.6 million new cases and close to 24 000 deaths. The Region remains the second most affected by SARS-CoV-2...
WHO has published a series of products on Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) calling attention to address HTLV-1 through a global public health approach. The HTLV-1 technical report, the HTLV-1 fact sheet and...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) director-general today called on vaccine makers and countries to take steps to ensure that low- and middle-income countries aren’t shut out of receiving vaccine...
The head of the World Health Organization, marking a year since the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by China, urged countries on Wednesday to ensure that vaccines are made available to people at risk...
Science offers solutions but they will be ineffective without solidarity, says WHO chief Although 1 million lives are confirmed to have been lost to COVID-19, the real number is “certainly higher,” the chief of the...
Economic recovery around the world could come faster if any COVID-19 vaccine is made available to all as a public good, said. He was speaking in an online panel discussion with members of the Aspen Security Forum in the...
As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, people in all countries are being encouraged to take precautions to prevent transmission, including in many countries by staying at home and physical distancing. But a...
The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus within 18 months. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the vaccine for the virus, which the organization dubbed Covid-19, will take...
After waiting an extra month to decide on the H3N2 strain, World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine advisors finalized their recommendations on strains to include in the Northern Hemisphere 2019-20 flu vaccines. Their...
Three years after the start of the world’s worst Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has created a programme to improve its response to disease outbreaks and to prevent another such calamity. In June...