WHO releases new reports and estimates highlighting urgent gaps in mental health.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )WHO today releases two major reports — the Mental Health Atlas 2024 and the World Mental Health Today — alongside updated suicide estimates, presenting the most comprehensive evidence yet on the urgent need to strengthen mental health services and prevent
WHO updates list of essential medicines to include key cancer, diabetes treatments.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released updated editions of its Model Lists of Essential Medicines (EML) and Essential Medicines for Children (EMLc), adding new treatments for various types of cancer and for diabetes with associated comorb
FATF, Egmont Group, INTERPOL and UNODC call for stronger cooperation between countries as they launch handbook to fight money laundering.
Stories & Blogs UNODC (News )Money laundering almost always crosses borders, and criminals exploit gaps between national legal systems to hide their activities and avoid punishment.
Africa speaks out: WHO consultations bring urgency and hope to health worker migration crisis.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )From Praia to Port Louis, governments and health professionals are sounding the alarm: Africa is losing too many of its trained health workers to international migration
WHO designates new WHO-Listed Authorities, strengthening global access to quality-assured medical products.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )WHO expands the growing list of WLAs, now involving 39 agencies across the world, supporting faster and broader access to quality-assured medical products, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem, making it the tenth country to reach this important milestone.
Improving access to maternal health care in Burkina Faso.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )In Burkina Faso, improving access to obstetric care is a major strategic focus in the efforts to curb maternal mortality.
Sustaining efforts to end mpox outbreaks in Africa
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )One year since World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), African countries have scaled up response measures and made progress to curb the spread of the virus.