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Overview The Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) has released the updated National Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the Early Warning, Alert and Response System (EWARS) 2025. It incorporates critical …

Overview The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), Nepal, has officially endorsed a new Guideline for Community-Based Disease Surveillance 2082. The guideline has been developed in line with the provisions …

Proposal to be submitted to World Health Assembly in May for consideration. After more than three years of intensive negotiations, WHO Member States took a major step forward in efforts …

3 October 2024 Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Global Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan (SPRP) to tackle dengue and other Aedes-borne arboviruses. The Plan aims at reducing the …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the MVA-BN vaccine as the first vaccine against mpox to be added to its prequalification list. The prequalification approval is expected to facilitate …

Here are the top 40 global health highlights from 2023, compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO). Read full story: World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has eliminated lymphatic filariasis, a painful and disabling neglected tropical disease, as a public health problem. This landmark …

The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN)  WHO and partners are launching a global network to help protect people from infectious disease threats through the power of pathogen genomics. The International …

The World Health Organization (WHO) says Mpox (monkeypox), an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus is no longer a public health emergency of International Concern. It was declared public health …

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) as per the advice offered by the fifteenth meeting of the …