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Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 23 May 2026

By admin  /  May 25, 2026
<p>At the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva this week, Member States adopted more than 20 decisions and 13 resolutions...
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Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 22 May 2026

By admin  /  May 24, 2026
<h2>Member States establish joint process to support reforms of global health architecture</h2><p>The World Health Assembly today decided to establish a...
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First meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the epidemic of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda 2026 – Temporary recommendations

By admin  /  May 24, 2026
<p>On 17 May 2026, pursuant to paragraph 2 of <em>Article 12 - Determination of a public health emergency of international...
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Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 21 May 2026

By admin  /  May 23, 2026
<h2>Countries support development of a post-2030 strategy to end tuberculosis</h2><p><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;">The Assembly, today,&nbsp;endorsed&nbsp;a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB158/B158(3)-en.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;white-space:inherit;">decision</a><span style="text-decoration:underline;background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;">requesting the Director-General...
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Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 20 May 2026

By admin  /  May 23, 2026
<div><h2 paraid="824679538" paraeid="{c42ce906-f143-429d-8a94-b4cd5dc55fa2}{16}">Public health awards&nbsp;</h2></div><div><p paraid="362034014" paraeid="{c42ce906-f143-429d-8a94-b4cd5dc55fa2}{18}">Today&nbsp;at&nbsp;the World Health Assembly,&nbsp;six laureates from around the world received awards for their outstanding...
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Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 19 May 2026

By admin  /  May 22, 2026
<p>At the World Health Assembly today, Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus presented <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/speeches/item/who-director-general-s-address-to-member-states-at-the-79th-world-health-assembly---19-may-2026">his report on the work of WHO</a>...
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Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly honours global champions advancing primary health care

By admin  /  May 22, 2026
Today, the World Health Assembly recognized individuals and institutions whose contributions to global health have gone far beyond the call...
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World Health Assembly opens in Geneva, Switzerland

By admin  /  May 20, 2026
The Seventy-ninth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA79) opened in Geneva, Switzerland today, with the election of Dr Víctor Elías Atallah Lajam of the Dominican Republic as...
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Director-General presents Award for Global Health to four distinguished leaders

By admin  /  May 20, 2026
At the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has presented four distinguished leaders with...
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Epidemic of Ebola Disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda determined a public health emergency of international concern

By admin  /  May 18, 2026
<p>Pursuant to paragraph 2 of <em>Article 12 - Determination of a public health emergency of international concern, including a pandemic...
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