Communicable Diseases

The World Health Organization (WHO) will host a webinar on 16 March 2021 to provide an overview of planned updates to WHO TB policy guidance in 2021, promote an exchange of views…

WHO launches a consolidated guidelines for malaria. The consolidated WHO Guidelines for malaria present all of the current WHO recommendations for malaria. This guideline bring together the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for malaria…

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Programme is inviting young people aged 15-34 to join an online consultation to contribute to the development of a special training course to…

5 February 2021 | GENEVA – The critical concentrations for culture-based phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) to first-line anti-TB drugs have been revised by the the World Health Organization (WHO). Critical concentrations…

27 January 2021 | GENEVA – The definition of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has been revised by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Global TB Programme, who have also defined pre-XDR-TB for the…

The National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC) has published The HIV Standard Service Package(SSP) For Key Populations, which aims to address services for these populations, providing the standard prevention,…

The first-ever Provincial Youth Summit to End Tuberculosis (TB) Gandaki, was organized virtually on 23 and 24 December 2020 by TB Free World with NYMAT-Nepal and Youth for TB Free…

Noncommunicable diseases now make up 7 of the world’s top 10 causes of death, according to WHO’s 2019 Global Health Estimates, published today. This is an increase from 4 of…

As COVID-19 pushes the AIDS response even further off track and the 2020 targets are missed, UNAIDS is urging countries to learn from the lessons of underinvesting in health and…

World AIDS Day observed each year on 1 December to show support for people living with HIV and to remember those who have died from AIDS-related illnesses. It was initiated…