Also known as: WHO
World Health Organization — UN agency approving antimalarial drugs, overseeing pandemic preparedness negotiations, and coordinating global immunization campaigns.
Uganda's Ministry of Health reported a surge in measles cases, with 20 districts confirming outbreaks so far this year. The Director General of Health Services noted that 75 percent of cases are among children under five, and 64 percent of patients never received measles-rubella vaccination, while the ministry has activated vaccination campaigns targeting children aged 9-59 months.
19 hours ago · Capital News →
Uganda's Ministry of Health reported a surge in measles cases, with 20 districts confirming outbreaks so far this year. The Director General of Health Services noted that 75 percent of cases are among children under five, and 64 percent of patients never received measles-rubella vaccination, while the ministry has activated vaccination campaigns targeting children aged 9-59 months.
19 hours ago · Capital News →
The World Health Organization has prequalified artemether-lumefantrine, the first antimalarial formulation specifically developed for newborns and infants weighing between 2 and 5 kilograms, addressing a critical treatment gap that previously exposed the youngest infants to dosing errors and toxicity.
1 May 2026 · Capital News →
The WHO chief said the United States has not paid its outstanding membership dues, which is a condition for Washington's planned withdrawal from the organization. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed hope that the U.S. could clear its arrears before exiting and stressed that the issue extends beyond finances, arguing that health security requires universality.
30 April 2026 · Capital News →
The WHO director-general said Wednesday that the United States has not yet paid off its membership fee arrears, and that payment is a condition for the US withdrawal from the organization that began with a one-year notice in January 2025.
30 April 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Bangladesh has recorded 227 child deaths from measles since March with nearly 35,000 suspected cases, marking one of its worst outbreaks in decades. Remote areas like Kurukpata in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, home to Indigenous communities, have been hardest hit due to limited vaccination coverage and barriers to hospital access.
29 April 2026 · Citizen Digital →
The widespread use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war in Sudan has triggered a massive mental health crisis, according to UN agencies and aid groups. Between January 2024 and November 2025, Doctors Without Borders reported that at least 3,396 survivors of sexual violence—nearly all women and girls—sought treatment at its facilities in North and South Darfur, with officials warning this represents only the "tip of the iceberg" due to barriers including lack of security, insufficient trained healthcare workers, and severe stigma.
29 April 2026 · The Standard →
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale met with senior WHO officials during the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2026 in Nairobi to discuss global health cooperation, regional health security, and Kenya's health sector reforms under the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda, including Universal Health Coverage, local pharmaceutical manufacturing, and Africa's role in global health diplomacy.
28 April 2026 · Capital News →
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is urging global leaders to adopt binding equity measures in pandemic preparedness, warning that without enforceable commitments new health frameworks risk repeating COVID-19 failures. The call comes as over 1,000 delegates gather in Nairobi for the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2026 while parallel Geneva negotiations continue on a pandemic agreement and Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing system.
27 April 2026 · Capital News →
Wealthy and developing countries are in sharp disagreement at the World Health Organization over how a pandemic treaty adopted last year will work in practice, specifically on a Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing system for vaccines, tests and treatments. Developing nations fear sharing viruses without guarantees of equitable vaccine access in a future crisis.
27 April 2026 · Citizen Digital →
The Big Catch-Up, a global immunisation initiative launched in 2023 to address COVID-19-related vaccination setbacks, delivered more than 100 million vaccine doses to an estimated 18.3 million children across 36 countries between 2023 and 2025. Of these, 12.3 million were "zero-dose" children who had never received any vaccine, and 15 million had not been vaccinated against measles.
26 April 2026 · Capital News →