The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread faster than aid efforts can keep pace, despite significant gains in treatment capacity and growing community engagement, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday.
Words like “sustainability” and “healthy” shouldn’t take the joy out of eating. As elite chef Jaume Biarnés has been explaining to UN News, sustainable gastronomy can be delicious, exciting and fun.
Global officials are calling on world leaders to finalise a crucial international agreement aimed at preventing future pandemics, according to a joint letter issued on Monday.
In Ebola-stricken eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a massive push for early testing and contact tracing is helping to contain the virus, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
Health workers were threatened and expelled by armed groups while attempting to safely bury an Ebola victim in an eastern DRC village, forcing them to abandon containment procedures and raising concerns about ongoing outbreak management amid insecurity.
The World Health Organization announced Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is showing progress, though major obstacles remain in testing, surveillance, vaccine availability, and gaining community trust.
The World Health Organization has released new estimates showing that unsafe food causes approximately 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths annually worldwide, underscoring the persistent public health burden of foodborne contamination.
Health officials in the Americas are urging countries to enhance measles surveillance and vaccination efforts amid ongoing outbreaks in the region, particularly as attention turns to World Cup activities.
The UN health agency is investigating reports of strikes on a hospital in Tyre, southern Lebanon, as part of a broader pattern of attacks on healthcare facilities in the country.
Four nurses who contracted Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have recovered and been discharged from hospital, marking a rare successful recovery from the often-fatal disease.
The World Health Organization warned that an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread across multiple provinces and crossed into neighbouring Uganda, requiring urgent community engagement to control the rapidly evolving emergency.
Two weeks into the latest deadly Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there are now 906 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including 223 suspected deaths.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) headed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday as the country continues to combat a deadly resurgence of Ebola in its volatile eastern region where instability is rife.
The WHO has warned that eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a 'catastrophic collision of disease and conflict' as a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak overwhelms containment efforts in a region already devastated by armed violence, mass displacement, and severe hunger.
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to neighbouring Uganda, prompting the UN aviation agency to remind governments and airlines to enforce pandemic-era health protocols to prevent further international transmission.
The World Health Organization reported more than 900 suspected cases of Bundibugyo Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 220 suspected deaths, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus.
At the close of the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus warned that recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks underscore the world's continued vulnerability to rapidly spreading infectious diseases.
The UN is deploying emergency personnel, funding, and supplies to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to contain a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in conflict-affected areas.
United Nations agencies are deploying emergency medical supplies, protective equipment, and logistics support to contain an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Rescue workers and paramedics in Lebanon have begun saying goodbye to one another before heading to strike sites, a practice captured in widely shared videos that underscores the mounting dangers faced by aid workers since fighting between Hezbollah and Israel began in early March.
The World Health Organization is mounting an emergency response to combat a fast-moving Ebola outbreak caused by a rare virus variant spreading through eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
The World Health Organization stated that an Ebola outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda poses a serious regional and national threat, though it does not yet constitute a global pandemic emergency.
A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo an international emergency, top global disease transmission experts stressed that the chances of another global pandemic similar to the 2019 coronavirus emergency are increasing all the time.
From Ebola outbreaks in Central Africa to the complex evacuation of passengers aboard a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) opened its annual assembly on Monday as countries grapple with disease outbreaks, deep funding cuts and growing geopolitical tension.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, citing rising cases, cross-border spread and significant uncertainties about the scale of the epidemic.
Passengers and crew from the cruise ship MV Hondius began disembarking in Tenerife on Sunday under a tightly coordinated international health operation led by Spanish authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO), as officials sought to reassure the public that the outbreak “is not another COVID.”
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has issued a direct plea for calm and solidarity to the citizens of Tenerife ahead of the scheduled arrival of the MV Hondius on Sunday
On a red running track in eastern Uganda, coach Zuena Cheptoek is doing more than training runners. For many girls in the Sebei subregion, she is also a confidante, a mentor and first line of protection against female genital mutilation, child marriage and abuse.
Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives, as ordinary people chose to protect themselves, their children and their communities from diseases like measles, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, and rotavirus.
Despite significant funding cuts, the World Health Organization (WHO) was able to support significant national health gains for hundreds of millions of people in 2025, according to its annual Results Report released on Thursday.
Extreme heat is pushing global food and farming systems to the brink, threatening the livelihoods of over a billion people as rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves redefine how food is produced worldwide, a new UN report warns.
More than 840,000 people die each year from health conditions linked to risks such as long working hours, job insecurity, workplace harassment and bullying, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Measles vaccinations have saved nearly 20 million lives in Africa since the year 2000 and more than 500 million children were protected through routine immunisation, but the continent remains offtrack in the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases.
The scale and speed of destruction from the wave of airstrikes in Lebanon which began just hours after the US-Iran ceasefire announcement, has left the country’s already strained health system struggling to cope, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
For 25 years, the world has made significant progress in advancing women’s right to health, particularly in sexual and reproductive care. Women are living longer than ever before – but they are not living better.
As violence forces tens of thousands to flee Sudan’s South Kordofan state, doctors in a key maternity hospital are facing impossible choices – with too few supplies, too many patients, and lives slipping away.
South Sudan is evolving into a catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis, UN Human Rights Council-appointed independent experts warned on Thursday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Tuesday for countries to step up action to end tuberculosis (TB) – one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers – by expanding access to new diagnostic tools that can help save lives.
The death toll from a horrific attack on a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur has risen further, amid a “sharp increase” in drone attacks against civilians this year, UN agencies said on Tuesday.
An estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024, including 2.3 million newborns, according to new United Nations estimates released on Tuesday – highlighting a worrying slowdown in global progress on child survival.
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing another $2 million in emergency funds to support health systems in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria as strikes against Iran by the US and Israeli continue amid counterstrikes across the Gulf and wider region by Tehran.
Clashes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border have continued for a seventh straight day, with humanitarian access to affected areas still restricted, the UN said on Wednesday.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk warned on Friday that the Epstein and Gisèle Pellicot scandals are an illustration of intensifying threats to women and girls forced to suffer in silence.
An international early warning system blocked a shipment of chemicals used to make fentanyl that could have produced up to 1.6 billion potentially lethal doses, the UN narcotics control body said on Thursday.
Renewed fighting in South Sudan’s Jonglei state has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians in recent weeks, damaged health facilities, fuelled the spread of cholera and prompting the UN relief chief to warn of a “perfect storm” of conflict, climate shocks and deprivation.