The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of ...

Members of the World Health Organization voted emphatically in favour of a potentially groundbreaking global treaty on improving pandemic preparedness at the World Health Assembly on Monday.

An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain unvaccinated and vulnerable to vaccine-preventable illnesses – meaning ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has denied the reports of a new virus causing some patients in Russia to cough up blood. The Context Reports have been ongoing about an unidentified virus ...

When President Trump issued an executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization on his first day in office, he pledged to “identify credible and transparent United States and ...

What Is the World Health Organization? Established on April 7, 1948, the WHO started work in September that year as a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for public health.

The World Health Organization is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations system. The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the ...

“Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World ...

The abrupt halt to U.S. involvement in the World Health Organization has caused considerable and immediate uncertainty for global health. But it can also signal a new opportunity to fix at last wha… ...

Members of the World Health Organization came together on a critical agreement that outlines how members would react to pandemics after the COVID-19 outbreak.

A picture taken on May 8, 2021 shows a sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) at the entrance of their headquarters in Geneva amid the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak.

President Donald Trump said he was open to potentially rejoining the World Health Organization (WHO), just days after signing an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from participating.