Press release

The World Health Organization (WHO) today spells out the need to step up cancer services in low and middle-income countries....

Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are renewing their longstanding partnership to end polio, announcing a joint commitment...

A US$1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and...

A ground-breaking report on family planning in the world’s 69 lowest-income countries today shows that more women and girls have...

The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) has announced a £500,000 award from United Kingdom Department of Health and Social...

World leaders have adopted a high-level United Nations Political Declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), the most comprehensive set of...

Despite all efforts by governments towards the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality, women and children die endlessly. This concern...

Kenya has officially launched the world’s first malaria vaccine today in Homa Bay County, western Kenya. The malaria vaccine pilot...

The number of countries with national suicide prevention strategies has increased in the five years since the publication of WHO’s...

The Federal Government, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners, is launching a...