Pakistan may be on its way to finally ridding itself of polio, if a small environmental survey is truly representative…
An outbreak of hemorrhagic fever syndrome has spread across a northern region of South Sudan. Since the start of the…
When Rio secured its place in 2009 as the host of the 2016 Olympics, Brazil was a rapidly developing country with…
Attacks on health-care facilities and workers in emergency settings killed 959 people and injured 1561 between 2014 and 2015. For…
GENEVA — World Health Organization member states agreed on Wednesday to more than double the group’s emergency fund to $494…
Zika, Ebola, MERS coronavirus and yellow fever have shown that the world is not prepared to deal with the rapid…
The World Health Organization (WHO) declined to classify the ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of…
Abortion rates in wealthy countries are steadily falling, but there is not much change in the world’s poorest countries. New…
Air pollution levels are unsafe in nearly all cities in developing countries, according to new data from the World Health…
The World Health Organization issued a new recommendation to cut the treatment time for people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in half. The…