World Health Organization

WHO estimates there have been upwards of two attacks per day on health care infrastructure in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion of the country.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is hindering humanitarian access and disrupting medical supply chains that are critical to health care in the besieged country, according to WHO.

The 11th revision of WHO’s ICD has come into effect, according to the organization. For the first time, the disease catalog is entirely digital and in a user-friendly format with multilingual capabilities, WHO said.

WHO recently announced that there is not enough evidence to conclude that healthy children and adolescents require a COVID-19 booster. Instead, the world health agency said that boosters should be reserved for more vulnerable populations.

The WHO has issued a “strong recommendation” for baricitinib, in combination with corticosteroids, in the treatment of patients with severe or critical COVID-19.

Game-changing therapies have made the WHO goal of achieving hepatitis C elimination by 2030 possible, but many countries find themselves fighting an uphill battle, according to experts.

The prevalence of hepatitis C infections has declined globally, but countries must scale up rates of diagnosis and treatment to achieve the WHO targets to eliminate HCV by 2030, according to new data.

Consultations, testing and treatment of hepatitis B and C virus fell significantly during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many centers seeing declines of more than 75% in all categories, according to a presentation.

Forty-seven countries, including the United States, have committed to developing climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems. They announced their efforts during the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, also known as COP26.

WHO has updated its Model Lists of Essential Medicines and Essential Medicines for Children, adding 20 medicines for adults and 17 for children in addition to new uses for 28 previously listed medicines.