The World Health Organization turns 75 today. Forged in the years following World War II, many hoped people would finally work together to eradicate some of the world's worst diseases.

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

It comes nearly a month after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Mpox has infected an estimated 18,000 people and ...

The World Health Organization wants the power to run the world. In three weeks, it will make its bid for global control. The World Health Assembly, the 194-member body governing that organization ...

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.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with public health scholar Kelley Lee about the World Health Organization's response to the coronavirus outbreak.

A worker arranges UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) humanitarian aid in a UAE plane headed to Egypt’s El-Arish airport on January 24, 2025 at an airport in Dubai, as part of a humanitarian ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on the US withdrawal from WHO (World Health Organization) in the Oval Office on January 20, 2025.

RFK Jr. announced a halt to all U.S. funding for the global Gavi vaccine alliance. One expert calls it a "travesty and a nightmare." Five years ago today, the World Health Organization declared ...