October 2026, Cairo, Egypt – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Gulf Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Gulf ...

Hospitals in Yemen’s Taiz governorate are struggling to maintain lifesaving services amid critical shortages of fuel, oxygen, medicines and medical supplies. With hospital ...

WHO-supported IPD-SAM centre at Guzara District Hospital, Herat Province. Photo credit WHO Afghanistan21 October 2026, Kabul, ...

Countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region have adopted resolutions to protect people from the financial burden of ...

Pakistan’s Ministry of Human Rights launches the first National Strategy to End Violence Against Children (2026-2031) together with WHO, partners, civil society, youth organizations and children.

At the Seventy-third session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (RC73), ...

Seya Moy, 32, on her road to recovery at Herat Infectious Disease Hospital. Photo credit: WHO Afghanistan.15 October 2026, ...

Excellencies, distinguished colleagues and partners,Thank you for a very rich discussion.Let me take you to Vienna, in 1847.A young doctor, Ignaz Semmelweis, asked his colleagues to wash ...

On the final day of the Seventy-third session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (RC73), a high-level technical dialogue was ...

15 October 2026, Cairo, Egypt – The World Health Organization (WHO) is strengthening readiness for Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) across the Eastern Mediterranean Region, with intensified support to ...

Every day, across our Region, health professionals and policymakers face difficult decisions. Where should limited resources go? Which interventions will make the greatest difference? And where do we ...

14 October 2026, Cairo, Egypt – Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region have endorsed the multi-communicable disease elimination (MCDE) approach at the 73rd session of the WHO Regional Committee ...