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World Health Organization

July 2024

  • A nurse standing looking at notes in a maternity ward.

    Observer book of the week
    Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women’s Health by Sophie Harman – the war on wellbeing

    The British academic offers a devastating diagnosis of the forces that have shaped female healthcare worldwide, along with a powerful prescription for change to remedy the failings, inequalities and injustices
  • A health worker in protective gear, carrying a large checklist, approaches a mother and baby at their door

    War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns

    Vaccine misinformation has added to crisis of collapsed healthcare and poor nutrition, Unicef and WHO report
  • A man sitting on the ground holds out his hand through a gate to a medic in a white jacket

    How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa

    One of the continent’s leading medics, Jean Kaseya, has made it his mission to help the 116m people in African countries with mental health conditions

June 2024

  • Greece was identified as belonging to a wine drinking cluster that included France and Sweden in 2019.

    Wine, beer or spirits? Europeans can’t kick their traditional drinking habits

  • Rear view of a woman looking out of the window at sunset.

    Loneliness can increase stroke risk by up to 56%, finds research

  • Young woman with fingernails painted purple smoking outdoors with sun on her face: a close-up showing her holding a cigarette in her mouth

    Tobacco, alcohol, processed foods and fossil fuels ‘kill 2.7m a year in Europe’

  • An open 20-pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes with the cigarettes coming out

    BAT subsidiary lobbies Pakistan to allow export of cigarettes to Sudan

May 2024

  • Delegates sit in a conference room in front of a big screen

    Global pandemic treaty could be more than a year away after deadline missed

  • Patrick Vallance

    Another pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance

  • Photo of the World Health Organization (WHO) logo displayed on screen with medical syringes and vaccine vials

    What is the pandemic accord and why have negotiations been so difficult?

  • Nigel Farage in mid speech with a microphone

    WHO accuses Nigel Farage of spreading misinformation about pandemic treaty

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer averts row with union leaders as Labour reiterates ‘full commitment’ to new deal for working people – as it happened

  • A common condition
    Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’

April 2024

  • Alcoholic drinks on a table

    Great Britain has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

  • Dairy cattle feeding at a farm as a bird looks on

    Science Weekly
    From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast

  • Two researchers wearing white protective suits, one carrying a blue box, walk across stony ground with penguins and water in the background

    Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO

  • A smiling African baby with a bottle of milk

    Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds

  • The Guardian picture essay
    A WHO photographer in Gaza: ‘There’s just an overwhelming need for peace’

  • ‘They’re targeting healthcare workers’: airstrikes a constant fear for UK doctors in Gaza

  • 'Gone forever': WHO releases footage showing destruction of al-Shifa hospital complex – video

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