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World Health Organization

March 2025

  • A measles alert sign hangs outside the entrance to the Cohen Children's Medical Centre

    Measles was eliminated from Australia. Experts warn US and Asia outbreaks may bring back this ‘heat-seeking missile’

  • A blurred photo of NHS medical staff in a corridor

    Post-Brexit reliance on NHS staff from ‘red list’ countries is unethical, Streeting says

  • a measles rash

    ‘Wake-up call’: Measles cases doubled in Europe last year, say WHO and Unicef

  • Hospital staff on a ward wearing personal protective equipment

    Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout

February 2025

  • Three women in saris with goods balanced on their head waiting to cross a road as a truck and tuktuk speed past them

    Opinion
    If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
  • gloved hands puts a needle into the bicep of a person wearing a surgical mask

    Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn

  • Empty bottles of alcohol

    WHO calls for cigarette-style cancer warnings on alcohol packaging

  • A health worker administers polio drops to a child in Hyderabad, Pakistan on 3 February 2025

    The Guardian view on supporting vaccines: humans can work miracles – so why wouldn’t we?

  • Trump disrupting US bird flu response as outbreak worsens

  • The Observer view: Vengeful and reckless, Donald Trump must not go unchallenged

  • From Gaza to tariffs, Donald Trump’s chaotic actions should instil fear in us all

  • Javier Milei announces Argentina to leave World Health Organization

  • Lung cancer diagnoses on the rise among never-smokers worldwide

January 2025

  • US medical doctors with critical-care experience in Gaza Strip hospitals discuss rebuilding Gaza's health system at the UN in New York on Thursday.

    UN chief urges evacuation of 2,500 children from Gaza as doctors warn of ‘imminent risk’ of death

  • a child receives a vaccine while someone holds the child

    CDC health officials in US ordered to stop working with WHO immediately

  • Donald Trump as a storm cloud clutching lightning bolts labelled ‘Tariffs’ blowing a gale which is destroying buildings labelled ‘WHO’ and ‘Paris Climate Accord’ and freezing a ‘Davos’ sign. The storm cloud is labelled ‘Storm Trump’.

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump, an ill wind that blows nobody any good – cartoon

  • Gordon Brown

    Memo to President Trump: you are wrong to leave the World Health Organization. You should think again

    Gordon Brown
  • ‘Sowing seeds for next pandemic’: Trump order for US to exit WHO prompts alarm

  • Uncharted territory for the WHO if Trump withdraws US membership

  • Fifteen months of Israeli bombardment leave conditions in Gaza ‘unimaginable’

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