LONDON, July 3 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) is pushing countries to raise the prices of sugary drinks, alcohol and tobacco by 50 per cent over the next 10 years through taxation, its strongest backing yet for taxes to help tackle chronic public health problems.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 — Malaysia’s anti-smoking campaign received a significant boost on World No Tobacco Day, as three national health advocates were honoured by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for their contributions to tobacco control.

GENEVA, May 26 — The majority of supplies of medical equipment have run out in Gaza, while 42 per cent of basic medicines including pain killers are out of stock, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.

GENEVA, April 16 — World Health Organisation (WHO) members reached a landmark agreement today on how to learn from Covid-19, which killed millions of people between 2020 and 2022, and prepare the world for future pandemics.

WASHINGTON, March 18 — Washington’s decision to pause US foreign aid has “substantially disrupted” supply of HIV treatments in eight countries, which could soon run out of these life-saving medicines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

SINGAPORE, March 11 — Only seven countries met World Health Organisation (WHO) air quality standards last year, data showed today, as researchers warned the war on smog would only get harder after the United States shut down its global monitoring efforts.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Nearly 250,000 cancer cases were reported in the country from 2017 to 2023, which saw an increase in the percentage of deaths.

GENEVA, Feb 19 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that a mass campaign to vaccinate children against polio in Gaza would resume on Saturday, with over half a million children targeted.

GENEVA, Feb 15 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) released new findings yesterday about an “alarming” lack of awareness about alcohol’s link to cancer across Europe and called for clear and prominent tobacco-style warnings in the region with the world’s heaviest drinkers.

LONDON, Feb 3 — World Health Organisation (WHO) member states will discuss cutting part of its budget by US$400 million (RM1.79 billion) in light of President Donald Trump’s move to withdraw the United States, its biggest government funder, from the WHO, a document released today showed.

By Fitri Hazim Hazam PETALING JAYA, Jan 25 — The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has become the first local authority in Selangor to join the Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities (GNAFCC) initiative by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Its Mayor Mohamad Zahri Samingon...

NEW YORK, Jan 21 — The United States will leave the World Health Organisation (WHO), President Donald Trump said today, saying the global agency mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

WASHINGTON/PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico, Jan 21 — President Donald Trump on Monday kicked off his sweeping immigration crackdown, tasking the US military with aiding border security, issuing a broad ban on asylum and taking steps to restrict citizenship for children born on US soil.

LOS ANGELES, Jan 11 — Business was brisk at Teddy's Cocina in Pasadena as wildfire evacuees ate lunch and passersby ducked indoors to escape from the brown, smoky air blanketing the city.

LONDON, Jan 9 — Rising cases of common respiratory illnesses in China and elsewhere around the Northern Hemisphere are within the range expected for winter, with no unusual outbreaks reported, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

BEIJING, Dec 31 — China has shared the most Covid-19 data and research results in the international community, its Foreign Ministry said today, after the World Health Organisation (WHO) repeated its call for more information and access.

ZURICH, Dec 28 — The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that he was not sure he was going to survive an air strike on Yemen's main airport carried out by Israel a day earlier during a series of attacks on the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

BERLIN, Dec 6 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) had no indication a warning was issued before Israel’s bombing early yesterday of north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, the agency’s regional representative said today.

ISTANBUL, Nov 23 — World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Friday that the mpox virus continues to constitute a global public health emergency.

GENEVA, Nov 15 — The number of measles infections worldwide increased by 20 per cent between 2022 and 2023, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United States (US) health agency CDC, reported the German News Agency (dpa) on Thursday.