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  • Health systems and policies ignore the needs of children with developmental disabilities
    09/18/2023 - Children and young people with developmental disabilities are a large and growing population that suffers stigmatization and exclusion around the world, says a new study by two specialized UN agencies, which advocates the inclusion of this group in public health plans, calls for greater accountability and proposes actions to achieve equality for these people.
  • Update on variant of interest EG.5 and variant under surveillance BA.2.86
    08/29/2023 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has released a technical note with an update on the newly identified Omicron sublineages. To date, there is no evidence of significant changes to the public health impact of EG.5 and BA.2.86.
  • WHO launches a new Global Initiative on Digital Health supported by the G20 Presidency
    08/21/2023 - The new GIDH initiative (pronounced “guide” for short) will operate as a WHO-managed network and platform to support the implementation of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020–2025. WHO serves as the Secretariat for the strategy implementation to converge and convene global standards, best practices and resources to fast track digital health system transformation.
  • New WHO guidance on HIV viral suppression and scientific updates released at IAS 2023
    08/03/2023 - The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing new scientific and normative guidance on HIV at the 12th International IAS (the International AIDS Society) Conference on HIV Science, held in Brisbane from 23 to 26 July 2023. This biennial conference presents the critical advances in basic, clinical and operational HIV research that move science into policy and practice.
  • Childhood immunization begins recovery after COVID-19 backslide
    07/18/2023 - New WHO and UNICEF data show promising signs of immunization services rebounding in some countries, but, particularly in low-income countries, coverage still falls short of pre-pandemic levels putting children at grave risk from disease outbreaks. According to data published today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, in 2022, 20.5 million children missed out on one or more vaccines delivered through routine immunization services, compared to 24.4 million children in 2021. In spite of this improvement, the number remains higher than the 18.4 million children who missed out in 2019 before pandemic-related disruptions, underscoring the need for ongoing catch-up, recovery and system strengthening efforts.
  • Women and girls bear brunt of water and sanitation crisis – new UNICEF-WHO report
    07/07/2023 - Women and girls responsible for fetching water in 7 out of 10 households without supplies on premises, according to first in-depth analysis of gender inequalities in drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in households. The publication "Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) 2000-2022: Special focus on gender" provides the first in-depth analysis of gender inequalities in WASH – also notes that women and girls are more likely to feel unsafe using a toilet outside of the home and disproportionately feel the impact of lack of hygiene.
  • Multilateral development banks and WHO launch new investment platform to strengthen primary health care services
    06/27/2023 - In a landmark development aimed at investing in and strengthening essential, climate and crisis-resilient primary health care (PHC) services in low- and low-and-middle income countries (LICs and LMICs), three multilateral development banks have joined with WHO to launch the new Health Impact Investment Platform.
  • PAHO launches a call to collect successful experiences of integration of workers' health at the primary care level in the Region of the Americas
    06/14/2023 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is launching a call to collect successful experiences on integrating workers' healthcare at the primary health care in the Region of the Americas. This initiative is promoted by the Workers' Health Area of the Promotion and Social Determinants of Health Unit.
  • WHO’s annual assembly ends with agreement on funding, and array of health topics
    06/02/2023 - World Health Organization's 76th Health Assembly closed, having addressed a vast array of issues, including behavioural sciences; best buys for non-communicable diseases; diagnostics; drowning prevention; emergency, critical and operative care; food micronutrients; Indigenous health; infection prevention and control; maternal and child health; medical oxygen; primary health care; refugee and migrant health; rehabilitation; traditional medicine, and WHO’s work in responding to dozens of emergencies while working with Member States to be better prepared to face new ones.
  • Landmark report charts route for reorienting economies to deliver health for all
    05/29/2023 - In the first-ever report of its kind, the World heal Organization Council on the Economics of Health for All has outlined a bold new path to reorient economies to deliver what matters - health for all. Launched in conjunction with the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly, the report, entitled "Health for All: Transforming economies to deliver what matters", provides a new framework built on the above four pillars, with specific recommendations under each – drawing from the Council’s previous work.

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