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There’s no doubt we have ways to keep everyone safe – if we have the will, says Gordon Brown, former UK prime minister and WHO ambassador

Wassem Hazem, commander in Jenin, killed in car Israel says container weapons and cash

Mpox virus has affected nearly 115 countries since its major outbreak in 2022. It has been declared a Global Health Emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). Having wreaked havoc in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring countries, this virus is now threatening to become the next global epidemic.

Israel has agreed to a series of three-day "humanitarian pauses" in Gaza to allow health officials to administer polio vaccinations to children in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Rik Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization's senior official for the Palestinian territories, said on Thursday that Israel had agreed to limited pauses in the fighting in Gaza to allow vaccinations against polio. Hamas said it is “ready to cooperate with international organisations to secure the campaign", according to a statement…

Agreement consists of temporary pauses in separate areas of Gaza with goal of vaccinating 640,000 children under 10.

Israel agrees to pauses in Gaza fighting for WHO-led polio vaccination campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children under 10 in three phases.

International survey of 250,000 15-year-olds found nearly a third of them did not use a condom or the pill

The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste

A new study has found that a staggering 60 percent of baby food sold in the United States doesn't meet WHO's nutritional standards, and could be affecting children's health.

Border regions in countries neighbouring DRC raise alert levels and screening measures as the mpox virus spreads.