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CONTEXT Over the past five years, the European Union has been committed to building better lives for the residents of Basra’s informal settlements by boosting infrastructure, jobs, and governance...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new strategic plan for the management of coronavirus disease threats, including COVID-19, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and potential new...

As mpox continues to affect communities across 26 African countries, health officials are turning to familiar strategies to manage the caseload. One such approach, home-based care, is being adapted...

Abstract This Strategic Joint Evaluation examines how international development and humanitarian actors responded collectively to the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2022. Drawing on evidence from...

KYIV, 1 September 2025 – Children in frontline areas of Ukraine have lost 25% more days of learning due to the war than the world’s longest COVID-19 school closures, as a lack of bomb shelters means...

Le Groupe consultatif scientifique de l’OMS sur les origines des nouveaux agents pathogènes (SAGO), composé de 27 expertes et experts indépendants, issus de plusieurs pays et de plusieurs...

El Grupo Consultivo Científico de la OMS sobre los Orígenes de Nuevos Patógenos (SAGO), formado por 27 expertos independientes, internacionales y procedentes de distintas disciplinas, ha publicado...

This joint report was originally published by the George W. Bush Institute on June 17, 2025. This report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in cooperation with the George W. Bush...

Situation at a glance Since mid-February 2025, according to data available from sentinel sites, global SARS-CoV-2 activity has been increasing, with the test positivity rate reaching 11%, levels that...

In the face of global health threats, robust genomic surveillance is more critical than ever. This innovative approach to monitoring pathogens allows scientists to track the genetic evolution of...

Save the Children analysed the current learning situation for children living in the 30 countries that experienced the longest pandemic-induced school closures.

12-15 June 2023, New Delhi, India Overview The COVID-19 pandemic created gaps in immunization coverage and vaccine preventable disease (VPD) surveillance which required specific and urgent attention...

Executive summary The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is the first pandemic in history in which technology and social media have been used on a massive scale to keep people safe, informed, productive...

Highlights In early 2020, UNICEF and partners supported governments across the 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa to scale up a response to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus and...

By N Kleist, P Albrecht, A E Ali, M Bradbury, M A Hassan, K Kanyinga, F D Mohamed, A M Musa, and J Norman Abstract This article interrogates the concept of polycrisis through a case-study of Somali...

Il y a cinq ans, le 31 décembre 2019, le Bureau de l’OMS en Chine prenait connaissance d’un communiqué publié sur le site Web de la Commission sanitaire municipale de Wuhan faisant état de cas de «...

Cinco años atrás, el 31 de diciembre de 2019, un comunicado de prensa publicado en el sitio web de la Comisión Municipal de Salud de Wuhan sobre unos casos de «neumonía vírica» en Wuhan (China) llamó...

Contexto Una emergencia de salud pública plantea la oportunidad y la necesidad de aplicar la evidencia, la ciencia, la investigación y la innovación, así como un enfoque práctico para brindar...