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Dr Vanessa Kerry appointed to new role as WHO Director-General's Special Envoy for Health Resilience |
The World Health Organization has appointed Dr Vanessa Kerry as the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoy for Health Resilience. Building on her previous role as WHO’s first Director-General Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, Dr Kerry will help advance a broader agenda focused on building resilient, integrated and sustainably-financed health systems capable of responding to day-to-day challenges and emerging threats from climate change, health emergencies and other complex global challenges. |
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Dr Vanessa Kerry appointed to new role as WHO Director-General's Special Envoy for Health Resilience
The World Health Organization has appointed Dr Vanessa Kerry as the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoy for Health Resilience. Building on her previous role as WHO’s first Director-General Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, Dr Kerry will help advance a broader agenda focused on building resilient, integrated and sustainably-financed health systems capable of responding to day-to-day challenges and emerging threats from climate change, health emergencies and other complex global challenges. 09/09/2026
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Bhutan’s elimination of dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem in the country. Bhutan is the first country in the WHO South-East Asia Region to achieve this success. 09/04/2026
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New tool will help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean prevent rabies and other zoonotic diseases through better data on dog and cat populations
The methodology provides a practical and adaptable approach to estimating dog and cat populations, improving the planning of vaccination campaigns, disease surveillance, and other public health interventions.Rio de Janeiro, September 3, 2026 (PANAFTOSA/VPH-PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Veterinary Public Health… 09/03/2026
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Timor-Leste as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Trachoma is the world's leading infectious cause of blindness. Timor-Leste was the last country in WHO’s South-East Asia Region with suspected endemic trachoma. With this validation, trachoma has been eliminated as a public health problem throughout the region. 09/03/2026
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Maternal vaccination protects mothers and newborns, but coverage gaps persist across the Americas
Experts highlighted the importance of strengthening maternal vaccination efforts, including through routine recommendations during prenatal care, to better protect pregnant women and their babies.Washington, D.C., September 1, 2026 (PAHO) — Vaccines administered during pregnancy can help prevent serious illness in women and protect newborns during… 09/02/2026
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Second meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on the epidemic of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Meeting report
The Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) regarding the epidemic of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus (BVD) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), held on Tuesday, 18 August 2026, from 12:00 to 17:00 CEST. 08/28/2026
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Avian influenza in the Americas: animal outbreaks decline, but PAHO calls for continued vigilance
Although no human cases have been reported in the Region so far in 2026 and animal outbreaks have declined compared with the previous year, the virus continues to circulate among birds and mammals, underscoring the need to strengthen surveillance and coordination across the human, animal, and environmental health sectors.Washington, D.C., 27… 08/28/2026
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From foot-and-mouth disease to One Health: 75 years of regional cooperation for veterinary public health in the Americas
Established in 1951 to help countries combat foot-and-mouth disease, PAHO's Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Veterinary Public Health (PANAFTOSA) has spent more than seven decades advancing regional cooperation. Its work has helped drive progress toward the eradication of the disease while strengthening the Americas' response to… 08/27/2026
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras, August 27, 2026 (PAHO) —Honduras has joined the Alliance for Primary Health Care (PHC) in the Americas, a regional initiative led by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the World Bank to support countries in strengthening primary health care through coordinated… 08/27/2026
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The 45th meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (IHR or Regulations) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 14 May 2026 via video conference with affected countries, supported by the WHO Secretariat. The Emergency Committee reviewed the latest epidemiological data on wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) and circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of the global targets to interrupt endemic WPV1 transmission in 2026 and to stop cVDPV2 outbreaks by 2028 with subsequent certification of WPV1 eradication and cVDPV2 elimination. Technical updates were received about the situation in the 08/25/2026
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The Ministry of Health has launched a 30-day consultation on allowing the sale and use of certain devices that function as hearing aids, without a prescription. 07/26/2026
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An Ontario couple who disembarked from the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena are isolating in Grey Bruce. A third who may have been exposed on a flight is in Peel Region. 07/26/2026