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A child infected with cholera receives treatment in the cholera isolation centre at the refugee camps of western Sudan, in Tawila city in Darfur, on August 12, 2025

Cholera is more than a medical challenge—it’s a political one

It persists because poverty, inequality, conflict and displacement persist

Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 25 October 2025

In an interview with Al Majalla, the regional director at the World Health Organization, Dr Hanan Balkhy, lays out the challenges she faces in her new role and shares her recipe for success

WHO Regional Director Hanan Balkhy: We are delivering critical medical supplies and fuel to keep Gaza's hospitals running

In an interview with Al Majalla, the regional director at the World Health Organization lays out the challenges she faces in her new role and shares her recipe for success

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At COP28, we can help transform the entire climate finance infrastructure for impact. We are calling on international financial institutions and multilateral development banks to help.

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Patients lie on beds in a hallway in the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Staff

China Media Plays Down COVID Severity As WHO Seeks Detail On Variants

State media in China played down the severity of a surge of COVID-19 infections ahead of a briefing on Tuesday by its scientists to the World Health Organization, which was hoping for a "detailed…

03 January 2023

People line up next to a medical worker in a protective suit, at a fever clinic of a hospital amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Josh Arslan

China Pushes Vaccines As Retreat From 'Zero-COVID' Turns Messy

China raced to vaccinate its most vulnerable people on Thursday in anticipation of waves of COVID-19 infections, with some analysts expecting the death toll to soar after it eased strict controls…

15 December 2022

FILE - This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Md. The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. (NIAID via AP, File)

WHO Renames Monkeypox as Mpox, Citing Racism Concerns

The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. The U.N. health…

AP 28 November 2022

A girl receives polio vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in a low-income neighborhood as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan July 20, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File Photo

WHO: Global Leaders Commit $2.6 bln to End Polio

Global leaders committed $2.6 billion in funding at the World Health Summit on Thursday to end polio, the World Health Organization said. The funding will support global efforts to overcome the…

18 October 2022

Polio vaccine drops are administered to a child at a civil dispensary in Peshawar, Pakistan July 11, 2019. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pledge $1.2 Billion to Eradicate Polio

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Sunday that it will commit $1.2 billion to support efforts to end all forms of polio globally. Polio is a highly infectious disease spread mainly…

16 October 2022

People enjoy an evening stroll in front of the skyline and the European Central Bank (ECB) as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Frankfurt, Germany, May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Europe Likely Entering Another COVID Wave, Says WHO and ECDC

Another wave of COVID-19 infections may have begun in Europe as cases begin to tick up across the region, the World Health Organization and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)…

12 October 2022

This photo taken on August 4, 2021 shows a laboratory technician wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) working on samples to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Fire Eye laboratory in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. (Photo by STR / AFP)

Calls for Independent Coalition-led Probe on Origins of COVID-19

More than a year and a half into a global pandemic that has caused at least four million deaths, the world is still debating two competing hypotheses about the origins of the novel coronavirus that…

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Cholera is more than a medical challenge—it’s a political one

WHO Regional Director Hanan Balkhy: We are delivering critical medical supplies and fuel to keep Gaza's hospitals running

Why climate change is a threat to global health

China Media Plays Down COVID Severity As WHO Seeks Detail On Variants

China Pushes Vaccines As Retreat From 'Zero-COVID' Turns Messy

WHO Renames Monkeypox as Mpox, Citing Racism Concerns

WHO: Global Leaders Commit $2.6 bln to End Polio

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pledge $1.2 Billion to Eradicate Polio

Europe Likely Entering Another COVID Wave, Says WHO and ECDC

Calls for Independent Coalition-led Probe on Origins of COVID-19

Government drones redraw the rules of war in Yemen

Inside Assad’s nuclear secrets

The global race for rare earths reaches the ocean floor

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