Sania grew up in Pakistan and initially understood mental health in the way many people do: as a personal struggle. So, when she experienced depression at the age of 17, her care was structured around ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its first guidelines addressing the sharp rise in obesity among children and adolescents, setting out how health systems and health workers can ...

Last Friday, the 2nd of October, the first media reports emerged of a suspected case of pneumonic plague in a laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute in the Russian Federation.

This WHO guideline provides practice- and science-informed global clinical and public health recommendations for the integrated management of obesity in adolescents aged 10–19 years, responding to the ...

The 2026 UHC Day campaign launch will give advocates, including civil society and young people, tools and messaging to ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, young MPs at the Forum’s Seventh Global Conference called for greater attention and resources for youth mental health, for youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health ...

A new publication in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization presents the revised WHO oral health module for the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) works to improve health and ...

For millions of adolescent girls around the world, violence is shaping their health, education, safety and future opportunities. In 2023, nearly 30% of adolescent girls aged 15–19 years have ...

Public health guidance for preventing and controlling Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) in camps and camp-like settings, ...

This month, join us for a 90-minute horizon-scanning session where, together, we will explore emerging signals of change that ...

Back in June 2026, WHO deployed Paul Benjamin Gbadia (Côte d’Ivoire) to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) through ...