The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. It was established on 7 April 1948, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland ...

Nigeria remains committed to halting all poliovirus transmission by 2030, investing in surveillance, routine immunisation, ...

Healthy children and teens likely don’t need COVID-19 vaccinations, according to updated guidance posted on the website of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. WHO’s Strategic Advisory ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announces the end of the COVID-19 emergency. COVID-19 will now be treated as an ongoing health issue. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, if you’re trying to drop a few pounds, you might want to skip sugar substitutes. That’s according to the World Health ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Health Organization on Sunday called for the "protection of public health excellence" at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "No institution is perfect ...

Nine cases reported in Ethiopia's Omo region, bordering conflict-wracked South Sudan, which has a fragile health system.

Staff across the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered Monday to cut off all communications with the World Health Organization, multiple federal health officials confirmed to CBS ...

Founded in 1948, World Health Organization (WHO) is mandated to prevent and eradicate epidemics and to improve the nutritional, sanitary, hygienic and environmental conditions of people around the ...