Of the $262 million Germany pledged to the WHO at the 2024 World Health Summit, only a third has been budgeted.

A UNAIDS spokesperson says the search for the next executive director will be discussed by the board during its meeting later this month.

Decision by Royal College of Pharmacy to end sponsorship comes after concerns over Teva Pharmaceuticals’ ‘activities’

China has nominated health official Song Li to lead the World Health Organization, it said on Thursday, confirming a Reuters report that Song had ​been put forward to succeed the incumbent director-ge...

Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health

From Italy to Britain, six in ten citizens or more want an independent authority to police AI.

Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene reflects on the first year of the America First Global Health Strategy and argues that its significance extends beyond the expansion of bilateral health partnerships. It show...

Kristalina Georgieva says big economies will have to make ‘very touch choices’ as soaring bond yields hit budgets

Key Democrats are meeting with MAHA activists and rolling out food and environmental plans to entice them.

The umbrella organization representing doctors, pharmacists, and dentists in the country, the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists' Union (KMPDU), has called on the government to take...

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

Washington increases pressure on Moscow to share more about the incident in which one person has died

La Banque mondiale a augmenté ses prévisions de croissance pour l’Afrique subsaharienne de 4,1 % à 4,3 % en 2026. Les pays qui enregistrent ces bons résultats sont ceux qui exportent du pétrole et des...

Health minister says 28 contacts identified after death of citizen who arrived from DRC on Saturday

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In both countries young people believe they have been denied the socioeconomic security that previous generation enjoyed

Health, long treated as a sanctuary of diplomatic consensus, has entered an era of high politics and ideological division. Leading the closing panel of the EU Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) on Friday (2 October), session chair Ilona Kickbusch, founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, highlighted how recent votes at the UN General Assembly demonstrate that nation-states increasingly split and vote instead of searching for consensus.

The province is bearing an increasing share of the Ebola burden in DR Congo, while access to specialized care remains insufficient.

The shortlist of five finalists to serve as the next Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was disclosed by the organisation on Wednesday (30 September), launching the final phase of its leadership search. The incoming chief will assume office in early 2027, facing a massive funding shortfall and mounting geopolitical pressure to overhaul the global health architecture.

In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...

The next phase of the process will include interactions with members of the Global Fund board, starting with a board retreat scheduled in the next two days.

The next major advancement in TB might not be a new drug, but a better understanding of how and why resistance to medicines emerges.

The organization cannot be reshaped without confronting its internal structure, partnership rules, and expanding operational role

Switching the Poles in International Health Policies

Brazil's environment minister João Paulo Capobianco said their new rainforest fund proposal has raised billions in record time, which he hopes will convince more investors

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The State Department is reportedly weighing whether to end funding for the 40-year-old famine monitor just as a "Super El Niño" threatens to push tens of millions more people into acute hunger.

Merck discontinued Recarbio, an important antibiotic in the U.S., despite concerns over resistance to superbugs.

A High-Level Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response appeared likely to win approval by the United Nations General Assembly, but only

Five candidates are vying to succeed Tedros in 2027

Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.

With an eye toward pandemic preparedness, a U.N.-backed agency has signed sub-licensing deals related to generic versions of a Roche influenza treatment.

Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.

Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde

Dr John Nkengasong, a former WHO adviser who worked with Biden administration on Aids policy, says decolonising curriculums and investment are key to unlocking potential of continent’s graduates

At least five candidates are in the running to become the next director-general of the WHO, a job that will come with extraordinary challenges.