Travel Health & Safety

Key definitionsAntimicrobial resistance occurs when microorganisms resist the effects of medications, making infections harder to treat and increasing the...

Yvonne Magawa (ESAWAS), Batsirai Majuru (WHO), Bisi Agberemi (UNICEF), Jan-Willem Rosenboom & Alyse Schrecongost (BMGF)Faecal sludge transport workers in...

16 November 2020 – More than one year on across the pilot countries of Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, more...

Today as WHO launches the Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer, the first estimates of the...

WHO today listed the nOPV2 vaccine (Bio Farma, Indonesia) for emergency use to address the rising cases of a vaccine-derived polio...

Ian Askew, Director, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research including UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development...

A new report has been released today by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, titled Progress towards the achievement of...

Falsified Fluzone® Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine identified in WHO region of the Americas Alert Summary This WHO Medical Product Alert...

Food safety events During the third quarter of 2020, the INFOSAN Secretariat has been involved in 37 food safety...

The new version of the World Health Organization (WHO) 2020 Global TB Report app is now available for your...