07 Jul 2021
We are pleased to inform you that the WHO Country Presence Portal is officially LIVE! The Portal is a comprehensive “one-stop shop” that provides information about WHO’s work at country level. What’s in the Portal? The Portal contains information about WHO’s work in 152 countries, territories, and areas where WHO has physical presence, including: 1. ...
07 Jul 2021
05 Jul 2021
Curious to learn why tobacco is a burden to development and how tobacco control will contribute to recovery from COVID-19 and building back better?. Join our virtual high-level side event at the 2021 High Level Political Forum, under the auspices of ECOSOC. Tuesday 6 July 2021 from 19:00 to 20:30, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, 13:00 to 14.30 EST (New York time) The s...
05 Jul 2021
28 Jun 2021
The World Health Organization is inviting you to the webinar “Building best in class chatbots during COVID-19” being held on 30 June 2021 at 15:00 CEST. WHO, governments, NGOs, academia and the private sector, will come together to discuss and share lessons learned during the pandemic. Chatbots are software programmes that interact with people over voice or text. Even before COVID-19, th...
28 Jun 2021
Guide
17 Jun 2021
Governments and communities can contribute to suicide prevention by implementing LIVE LIFE – WHO’s approach to starting suicide prevention so that countries can build on it further to develop a comprehensive national suicide prevention strategy....
02 Jun 2021
The World Health Assembly has approved the extension of the Global Coordination Mechanism (GCM) for Noncommunicable Diseases until 2030 and recommended a number of measures to improve its effectiveness. For more info, click Access
02 Jun 2021
Publication
31 May 2021
Social participation is an important means for governments to develop responsive health policies and programmes, which are more likely to be implemented by a broad stakeholder group. It is at the heart of the inclusive governance needed for countries...
Report
29 May 2021
The World Report on Hearing (WRH) has been developed in response to the World Health Assembly resolution (WHA70.13), adopted in 2017 as a means of providing guidance for Member States to integrate ear and hearing care into their national health plans...
Declaration
27 May 2021
The Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly, having considered the consolidated report by the Director-General, the mid-point evaluation of the WHO global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–2030 and the final e...
Guide
26 May 2021
A set of publications that provides information and support to all stakeholders who wish to develop or transform their mental health system and services to align with international human rights standards including the UN Convention on the Rights of P...
Article
24 May 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 24, 2021 – Our vision of a world without tobacco deaths is materializing. Today, ASH released an open letter calling on governments around the world to not only envision ending the tobacco epidemic but put in place concrete p...
20 May 2021
Guatemala’s Sololá region, with its sparkling lake ringed by volcanoes, is exceptionally beautiful. But a hidden danger stalks the Maya people who live there. Glucose tests conducted by Hospitalito Atitlán, WDF’s partner in the region, found that 15% of people tested had diabetes and 11% were pre-diabetic. More than 23% of the hospital’s patients are obese, and 43% are overweight...
20 May 2021
Report
19 May 2021
The report by United for Global Mental Health – Decriminalising Suicide: Saving Lives, Reducing Stigma - is produced with the support of Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw programme and an international law firm who led and conducted the...
