Saima Wazed, WHO Regional Director, takes indefinite leave amid corruption allegations, replaced by Catharina Boehme.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) ...

The World Health Organization has formally recognized the pivotal role of a number of heads of state and government in securing the adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the Seventy-eighth World ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has placed Saima Wazed Putul, its embattled regional director for South-East Asia and ...

Saima Wazed, Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia and daughter of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has ...

The United Nations warned yesterday that dire fuel shortages in the Gaza Strip had reached “critical levels”, threatening to ...

Doctors with special licenses no longer need to use special prescription pads that are difficult to obtain for their patients ...

The dramatic reorientation of U.S. aid abroad comes as the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Germany have announced a scaling down of their own foreign assistance budgets and as humanitarian crises in ...

Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.

Garment factories around the world which have signed up to implement UN-backed labour standards may simply stop investing in ...

Niels Finsen's groundbreaking work with light therapy revolutionized medical treatment, earning him the Nobel Prize in 1903.