Jan 28, 2025 · The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable.

Since the foundation of WHO in 1948, the world has experienced countless public health challenges threatening our health and well-being. However, numerous obstacles have been overcome and...

Jan 21, 2025 · When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative. Doctors, scientists, presidents and prime ministers urgently convened the International Sanitary Conference in Paris in 1851, a precursor to what is now the largest of its kind: the World Health ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Doctors, scientists, presidents and prime ministers urgently convened the International Sanitary Conference in Paris in 1851, a precursor to what is now the largest of its kind: the World...

Sep 30, 2022 · It is the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) to set global standards for health; WHO works with other United Nations agencies and a lot of partners to improve health, including to: Gather evidence on new ways to improve people’s health; Share information and ideas on health, such as with governments, health workers and the public

Jan 21, 2025 · UN agencies responded on Tuesday to President Trump’s executive orders ending US membership of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement, highlighting the massive potential negative impact on public health and efforts to …

Jan 21, 2025 · The UN agency is also currently working to achieve its “triple billion targets”. Set in 2019, the targets are that by 2025, one billion more people will be benefitting from universal health coverage, one billion more people will be better protected from health emergencies and one billion more people will be enjoying better health and wellbeing.

3 days ago · With the ongoing conflict, the United Nations reports an astonishing 12.7 million people in dire need of urgent humanitarian assistance, of whom 9.2 million require some form of health assistance. ... WHO aims to support them all in 2025, working closely with the Ministry of Health and other partners.” Dr Jarno Habicht, WHO Representative in ...

Nov 16, 2024 · The top UN health official gave a sobering reality check as the Fourth Global High-Level Ministerial Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance began Friday in Jeddah: “AMR doesn't just threaten to...

Member States founded the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN’s main body to promote healthy lifestyles and access to health care globally. WHO’s top priorities at the time were malaria, women’s and children’s health, tuberculosis, venereal disease, …