News releases

• World Health Assembly opens to discuss major health issues
  20 May 2013
• Yellow fever vaccination booster not needed
  17 May 2013
• WHO statistics show narrowing health gap between countries with best and worst health status
  15 May 2013
• WHO encourages patient participation for hand hygiene in health care
  3 May 2013
• Global leaders support new six-year plan to deliver a polio-free world by 2018
  25 April 2013
• WHO launches emergency response to antimalarial drug resistance
  24 April 2013
• Better supply systems key to reach all children with life-saving vaccines
  18 April 2013
• WHO/UNICEF: New plan to address pneumonia and diarrhoea could save 2 million children a year
  12 April 2013
• World Health Day 2013: measure your blood pressure, reduce your risk
  3 April 2013
• World Health Organization and Global Fund cite tuberculosis threat
  18 March 2013
• Few countries have road safety laws addressing all five key risk factors
  14 March 2013
• Child marriages: 39,000 every day
  7 March 2013
• Global report on Fukushima nuclear accident details health risks
  28 February 2013
• Effects of human exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals examined in landmark UN report
  19 February 2013
• WHO, WIPO, WTO release study on health innovation and access to medicines
  5 February 2013
• WHO heralds “new phase” in the fight against neglected tropical diseases
  16 January 2013
• Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products opened for signature
  10 January 2013