International

New WHO recommendations aim to preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics WHO is recommending that farmers and the food industry stop using...

155 million children globally are still stunted, the world is off track on meeting agreed nutrition targets The recently released Global...

15 million adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 have experienced forced sexual intercourse according to new report Violence against children...

WHO releases Global Tuberculosis Report 2017 Global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have reportedly saved an estimated 53 million lives...

Dr Ren Minghui WHO's Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases, has disclosed that it is not possible to meet the ambitious hepatitis...

"Outbreaks can be contained and pandemics prevented when countries have core capabilities in place" When a deadly mystery illness was...

For the first time, global measles deaths have fallen below 100 000 per year. In 2016, an estimated 90 000 people...