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2025-12-08 17:21
WHO confirms 100+ dead after Sudan’s RSF bombs kindergarten, adjacent hospital
More than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed in attacks on a kindergarten in Sudan that continued even as parents and caretakers rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital, Reuters reported Monday, citing the World Health Organization.
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2025-11-11 16:00
WHO, Drug Control Headquarters seek to boost joint efforts
TEHRAN – A delegation of the World Health Organization (WHO) paid a visit to the Iranian Drug Control Headquarters on Monday to explore avenues for expanding cooperation, particularly in the prevention and treatment of drug addiction.
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2025-11-04 15:37
Iran hosts annual meeting on Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
TEHRAN –The annual meeting on the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was held from October 29 to 31 in Sari, Mazandaran Province, both in person and online.
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2025-11-01 15:00
Iran advancing towards future with safe, resilient health facility
TEHRAN – Thanks to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education's (MoHME) leadership and support from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the UN, Iran is advancing towards a future where every health facility is safe and resilient and no one is left behind.
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2025-10-17 16:16
WHO: Infectious diseases in Gaza 'spiraling out of control'
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that infectious diseases are “spiraling out of control”, with only 13 of the territory’s 36 hospitals even partially functioning.
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2025-10-13 15:30
UNICEF, WHO support vaccination programs in Iran
TEHRAN – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have supported the health ministry in procuring needed vaccinations and will help introduce new vaccines into the national immunization program.
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2025-06-18 13:55
Health minister urges UN, WHO to slam, halt Israel’s aggression
TEHRAN – Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarqandi has called on the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and the World Health Organization’s director for the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, Hanan Hassan Balkhi, to censure Israeli airstrikes on Iran, and take action to stop the aggression.
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2025-05-13 22:12
WHO warns of permanent effect of starvation on a generation of Palestinians
Malnutrition rates are rising in Gaza and hunger could have lasting effects on “an entire generation”, the World Health Organization’s representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory says.
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2025-02-23 14:16
Gaza launches polio vaccination campaign targeting 600,000 children
A large-scale polio vaccination campaign was launched in Gaza on Saturday aiming to immunize approximately 600,000 Palestinian children under the age of 10, Anadolu Agency reported.
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2024-12-27 12:52
WHO chief Tedros was meters away from Israeli attack on Yemen airport
A wave of Israeli air attacks hit Yemen’s main airport just as the World Health Organization’s director-general said he was about to board a flight there, wounding one of the United Nations plane’s crew, the WHO chief has said.
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2024-12-13 14:54
WHO helps Iran enhance disaster, emergency preparedness
TEHRAN –The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated four trauma and emergency surgery kits (TESKs) to health centers in vulnerable provinces to enhance disaster and emergency preparedness in the face of health emergencies.
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2024-10-15 15:40
Iran calls on WHO to deal with unilateral coercive measures in health sector
TEHRAN –The Iranian deputy health minister has called on the World Health Organization to establish a working group to address the impacts of unilateral coercive measures on health in the region and to develop possible solutions consistent with basic human rights.
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2024-09-08 19:52
WHO: Over 20,000 dead in Sudan conflict
More than 20,000 people have been killed in the ongoing conflict in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group since April 2023, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday, Anadolu reported.
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2024-08-31 21:36
WHO: Health teams in Gaza must be protected
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said polio vaccination teams in Gaza must be “protected and allowed to conduct the upcoming campaign in Gaza safely”.
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2024-07-30 18:15
Wars a setback to polio eradication program: WHO
Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (WHO), says wars have eliminated past efforts made to eradicate polio.
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2024-06-11 15:37
Iran, WHO to form working group to eliminate hepatitis C
TEHRAN –Iran and the World Health Organization have agreed to create a joint working group with the aim of eradicating hepatitis C in the country.
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2024-06-05 22:04
UN warns of highest level of starvation in Gaza
If war continues unabated, more than one million Palestinians in Gaza could suffer the highest level of starvation by mid-July, according to a report by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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2024-05-19 15:53
Iran receives measles anti-body kits with WHO, ECHO support
TEHRAN –Iran has received a total of 160 measles antibody kits with the help of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO).
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2024-05-03 23:56
WHO warns Israeli incursion into Rafah would be a ‘bloodbath’
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned an Israeli incursion into Rafah would put the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians at risk and turn into a “bloodbath” with the health system in shambles, Al Jazeera reported on Friday.
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2024-04-08 23:03
WHO: Gaza aid block intolerable and inhuman
The United Nations and other international aid organizations decried the devastating toll of six months of the Israeli war in Gaza.
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2024-03-06 20:09
WHO chief calls on aid to enter Gaza as hunger spreads
The World Health Organization’s chief has called for more aid to enter Gaza, amid reports of children dying from malnutrition in the besieged territory.
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2024-02-14 23:15
WHO: Assault on Rafah would be an 'unfathomable catastrophe'
The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned that an Israeli military offensive against Rafah in southern Gaza would cause an "unfathomable catastrophe" and push the territory’s health system closer to the brink of collapse.
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2024-02-13 22:29
WHO: Khan Younis hospital undersupplied
The World Health Organization has said the European Hospital in southern Gaza is “overwhelmed, overcrowded and undersupplied,” amid an ongoing Israeli ground offensive in Khan Younis.
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2024-02-05 16:11
Self-care training packages provided for vulnerable people
TEHRAN– A series of specialized self-care training packages have been designed for two vulnerable groups including people with sensory impairments as well as their caregivers, and those with cerebrospinal injuries.
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2024-01-31 21:35
WHO: Gaza situation hellish
WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that Nasser hospital in southern Gaza is only “minimally functioning” and facing shortages of major resources.
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2024-01-26 14:31
WHO strengthens pre-hospital emergency response for Afghan refugees
TEHRAN - In a joint effort to support enhancing pre-hospital emergency response capacities in provinces hosting Afghan refugee populations, the World Health Organization (WHO), with the contribution of the Government of France, has donated three Hardtop 4x4 ambulances to the National Emergency Management Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran (NEMO).
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2023-12-21 22:37
Assault on Gaza health sector ‘sadistic’: UN special rapporteur
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, says Israeli attacks on the health system in the Palestinian Gaza Strip have taken “the most sadistic forms”.
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2023-12-15 13:37
photo: AFA, The Washington Post, Reuters
Diseases spread in Gaza amid health system collapse, Israeli strikes
WHO says diarrhoea cases surged 66 percent among children. Meningitis, chickenpox, jaundice also reported. The besieged residents of the Gaza Strip who have so far survived Israel’s bombs and bullets, are increasingly faced with the spread of diseases amid heavy winter rains that have flooded their makeshift shelters, and an acute shortage of food and potable water.
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2023-12-08 00:42
Security Council to meet Friday on Gaza, but US still opposes ceasefire
The United Nations Security Council is set for a meeting on Friday morning on Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip. However, the United States still opposes a ceasefire.
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2023-12-03 15:19
Iran attends WHO consultative sessions on traditional medicine strategy
TEHRAN – Iran attended the World Health Organization’s consultative sessions on developing a draft of a new traditional medicine strategy as the only representative from West Asia.