Plummeting vaccination rates have fueled a historic and prolonged wave of measles in the US – with the Pan American Health Organization expected to revoke the country’s elimination status it enjoyed since 2000. Experts told Health Policy Watch that the shifting vaccination landscape and persistent cases globally have fueled the worst outbreak since 1991. WASHINGTON […] Continue reading ->
The SEAHEARTS initiative in WHO’s South-East Asia Region offers an outstanding example of how we can build health systems that address diabetes and other related conditions – worth special attention on World Diabetes Day, as we grapple with the growing number of people worldwide living with the condition. When 64-year-old Wangmo from Pemagatshel District in […] Continue reading ->
The World Health Organization (WHO) must rebuild public trust, protect its most important functions and resist across-the-board budget cuts as it confronts growing health threats and shrinking financial resources, according to Dr. Maria Neira, a candidate to become the agency’s next director-general. “One thing that I will never do is to cut across and saying, […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA — More than 100 companies and industry groups with records of obstructing climate policy have sent delegations to the COP31 UN climate summit in Antalya that outnumber those of some of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, an analysis released Friday found. The 103 groups, 60 of them from the fossil fuel industry, outnumber delegates […] Continue reading ->
After the setback due to COVID, the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) is declining once again, but five years behind the original target, according to the 2026 World TB report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday. Globally in 2025, the TB incidence rate was 129 new cases per 100,000 people. This was […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – France is rallying countries to write near-zero methane targets for oil and gas into the COP31 climate deal, as leaders at a summit on Thursday said it was time to move beyond the voluntary pledges on track to deliver little more than a third of the cuts promised under the 2021 Global Methane […] Continue reading ->
Armed conflict is one of the biggest obstacles to containing the Ebola Bundibugyo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), warns the World Health Organization (WHO) on the eve of the outbreak’s sixth month. Some 11,114 cases and 5,433 deaths have been confirmed, with a death rate of 48% in the DRC, since the outbreak […] Continue reading ->
A coalition of senior medical professors and anti-corruption watchdogs from Indonesia has formally petitioned the World Health Organization’s Executive Board to reject Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin’s candidacy for Director-General. As health minister since 2020, Sadikin has pursued “a pattern of actions that have marginalized or penalized physicians, academics and health professionals who expressed […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – In his last climate summit address as UN secretary-general, António Guterres accused fossil fuel interests of “making a killing while killing our planet”, and warned that a world set to blow past 1.5°C of warming was on a “path to mutually assured destruction.” “Fossil fuels must go the way of the dinosaurs,” Guterres […] Continue reading ->
ANTALYA – In a tale of America at a crossroads, former US Secretary of State John Kerry declared at COP31 on Tuesday that the country would soon return to a leadership role in the global response to the climate crisis, as a new report found President Donald Trump’s war on Iran had inadvertently tipped global […] Continue reading ->