Donors pledge over $170mn to WHO ahead of US exit
World 09:44 21/05/2025GENEVA -- China, Qatar, Switzerland and others pledged over $170 million for the World Health Organization at its assembly on Tuesday, the agency said, and countries also accepted higher fees to help offset the expected loss of the U.S., the top donor.
World Health Organization members vote in favour of global pandemic agreement
World 12:28 20/05/2025GENEVA - Members of the World Health Organization voted emphatically in favour of a potentially groundbreaking global treaty on improving pandemic preparedness at the World Health Assembly on Monday.
World Health Organization looks ahead to life without the US
World 18:20 18/05/2025Hundreds of officials from the World Health Organization will join donors and diplomats in Geneva from Monday with one question dominating their thoughts - how to cope with crises from mpox to cholera without their main funder, the United States.
COVID-19 still under control in Vietnam amid rising cases in Thailand
Vietnam News 16:18 14/05/2025Amid surging COVID-19 cases in Thailand, Vietnam still keeps the virus at bay with 148 cases and no deaths logged across 27 provinces and cities since early this year, according to the Ministry of Health.
WHO to back use of weight-loss drugs for adults globally, raises cost issue
World 13:56 02/05/2025LONDON - The World Health Organization plans to officially back the use of weight-loss drugs to treat obesity in adults for the first time, a memo reviewed by Reuters on Thursday showed, marking a shift in its approach to treating the global health problem.
Gates, others launch $500 million maternal, newborn health fund, bucking aid cuts trend
World 18:17 29/04/2025A group of philanthropies including the Gates Foundation has set up a fund backed with nearly $500 million to help save the lives of newborn babies and mothers in sub-Saharan Africa, standing out against a bleak global health funding landscape.
WHO announces 'significant' layoffs amid US funding cuts
World 10:02 23/04/2025Geneva -- The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that operations and jobs would be slashed as US funding cuts had left the UN agency with a budget hole of several hundred million dollars.
Trump's White House launches COVID website that criticizes WHO, Fauci and Biden
World 10:13 20/04/2025Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's White House launched a COVID-19 website on Friday in which it blamed the origins of the coronavirus on a lab leak in China while criticizing Democratic former President Joe Biden, former top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization.
WHO countries strike landmark agreement on tackling future pandemics
World 15:15 16/04/2025Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding the mistakes made during the COVID-19 crisis.
WHO members close to accord on tackling future pandemics, sources say
World 18:44 12/04/2025GENEVA -- Members of the World Health Organization are close to a deal on a treaty to prepare for future pandemics, sources involved in the talks told Reuters on Saturday, with a WHO spokesperson saying discussions had been paused until Tuesday.
Vietnam’s health ministry orders tight control to prevent mpox
Vietnam News 19:03 19/08/2024WHO has declared the disease a public health emergency for the second time in two years
Mpox infects 199, claims 8 lives in southern Vietnam since 2023
Vietnam News 17:01 18/08/2024All eight deaths occurred in 2024
