WHO

File photo of Dr Gaya Gamhewage, director of PRSEAH at WHO headquarters. Photo: UNB
World+Biz

Internal documents show WHO paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each

The payments to women didn't come freely. To receive the cash, they were required to complete training courses intended to help them start “income-generating activities.”

Phlebotomine sandfly, a tiny 2-3 mm long insect vector.
Health

Bangladesh focuses on surveillance to sustain Kala-azar elimination success

Palestinian doctor Hassan Zain al Din, who travels on his bicycle from one makeshift shelter to another to provide treatment and medication to displaced patients, checks a girl at a school turned into a shelter, amid fuel shortages, as the conflict between Hamas and Israel continues, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip October 29, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

WHO warns of 'worrying trends' in disease spread in Gaza

Saima Wazed, regional director WHO South-East Asia. File Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Bangladesh candidate Saima Wazed wins WHO SEARO Director election

WHO Regional Director for Southeast Asia Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh presents a certificate of achievement to the Bangladesh Health Minister Zahid Maleque in Delhi, India on Tuesday (31 October). Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Bangladesh becomes world's first country to eliminate black fever

Saima Wazed Hossain. File Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Nomination for WHO Regional Director: Top health experts of the country laud Saima Wazed’s leadership abilities

Egyptian volunteers wait at the Rafah crossing in Egypt October 17, 2023. Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians await a decision for it to open, to enter to enter Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

WHO says medical aid 'loaded and ready to go' into Gaza

Palestinians flee their houses heading toward the southern part of Gaza Strip after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south within 24 hours, amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza City October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot/FILE PHOTO
Hamas-Israel war

Israel's Gaza evacuation order could breach international law: UN

Palestinians search for casualties under the rubble of a building destroyed by Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

WHO says it needs urgent access to Gaza to deliver aid, medical supplies

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

WHO regional director elections: Momen conveys Bangladesh's gratitude to Thailand for support to Saima Wazed

A general view shows smoke as it rises following Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 9, 2023. REUTERS
Middle East

Israel's evacuation order for Gaza 'death sentence' for patients: WHO

Photo: Collected
World+Biz

Egypt becomes first country to achieve WHO validation on path to elimination of hepatitis C

A nurse fills a syringe with malaria vaccine before administering it to an infant at the Lumumba Sub-County hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, July 1, 2022. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File photo
World+Biz

WHO recommends malaria vaccine, roll out in early 2024 in some African countries