International Plan, Policy & Guidelines

The RED strategy ‘Reaching Every District’ (RED) is the name given to a strategy of district capacity building to address common obstacles to increasing immunization coverage, with a focus on planning and …

6 MARCH 2017 | GENEVA More than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years of age are attributable to unhealthy environments. Every year, environmental risks – such as …

27 FEBRUARY 2017,GENEVA WHO today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens” – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health. …

WHO launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an assessment of the challenges for the next 15 years. This report aims to describe global health …

The WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines has been updated every two years since 1977. The current versions are the 19th WHO Essential Medicines List. The core list presents a …

WHO’s Global tuberculosis report 2015 was released on 28 Oct 2015 in Washington.  Tuberculosis mortality nearly halved since 1990 But TB ranks alongside HIV as a leading cause of death …

Every 40 seconds a person dies by suicide somewhere in the world. “Preventing suicide: a global imperative” is the first WHO report of its kind. It aims to increase awareness …

17 July 2015 –WHO’s Release New Guidelines on HTC services Globally only 51% of people living with HIV know of their status. The new guidelines provide a recommendation to support …

ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA, 14 July 2015 UNAIDS announces that the goal of 15 million people on life-saving HIV treatment by 2015 has been met nine months ahead of schedule The world …

WHO release the MENTAL HEALTH ATLAS TODAY (14 July 2015) The 2014 version of mental health Atlas continues to provide up-to-date information on the availability of mental health services and …