With over 826,000 people affected by heavy flooding affecting most of Nigeria, humanitarian agencies continue to step up efforts to provide life-saving assis...

The World Health Organization (WHO) airlifted, through several shipments in August, over 500 tons of essential medicines and medical supplies to Sana’a airpo...

Insufficient physical activity is a leading risk factor for non-communicable disease, negatively impacting mental health and overall quality of life, accordi...

Rebel violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is escalating inside the vast country’s Ebola-hit North Kivu province, putting millions at r...

United Nations agencies must join forces at the policy level and refuse interference from tobacco companies in their programmes so the destructive impact of ...

An estimated 78 million babies – or three in five – are not breastfed within the first hour of life, putting them at higher risk of death and disease and mak...

Find out how Ebola is transmitted, who is at risk of infections, what needs to be done to stop the chain of transmission and to stop an outbreak. After the r...

A deadly attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in Yemen in the key port city of Hudaydah has put hundreds of thousands of people at risk and damage...