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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says the World Health Organization needs greater authority to address future pandemics. Clark told Power & Politics that the initial findings of her group showed...

Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise in 80 per cent of European countries, according to the World Health Organization's Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, with local 'hot spots' the driving force.  

A clinical trial by the World Health Organization finds that antiviral medication remdesivir has little or no effect on length of hospital stay or mortality in COVID-19 patients. Dr. Srinivas Murthy weighs in on what this could mean for...

More than half a million lives have been lost in the spread of the novel coronavirus around the world - but the death toll could be much higher according to an MIT study.

The dead believed to have succumbed to coronavirus recovered from streets and homes in Bolivia's biggest cities.

Cuba has been so successful, it was able to send its doctors overseas to help other countries.

Why Malaria-related deaths in Africa could more than double this year.

Developing countries face 'a series of human tragedies more brutal than the virus itself' from the economic impact of the pandemic, says senior UN official. 

Brazil's coronavirus infections have reached a plateau, creating an opportunity to get the outbreak there under control.

Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization's emergencies program, is encouraged by the most recent coronavirus vaccine data and says large-scale, real world trials will come next. 

The World Health Organization says it is possible to control COVID-19 and get on with our lives but a return to the 'old normal' is a long way off.

'This is a time for self-reflection,' said WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. 

China’s leaders deny any cover-up and are unlikely to take responsibility for the spread of the pandemic.

Half a year after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected at a wet market in Wuhan, China, investigators with the World Health Organization are now trying to figure out how the virus jumped from animals to humans.

The World Health Organization says there still is much to be learned about how people catch the coronavirus, including the impact of asymptomatic transmission.

A group of 239 scientists from around the world say there is enough evidence that the coronavirus can spread by airborne transmission and urged the World Health Organization to revise its guidelines, but there is debate within the...

While discussing potential airborne transmission of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization detailed its systematic science- and evidence-based approach to reach its conclusions. 

Jair Bolsonaro's infection highlights that 'no one is special' when it comes to contracting the coronavirus, said the WHO's health emergencies lead, Dr. Mike Ryan.

Brazilian leader has repeatedly played down the threat from COVID-19, describing it as 'a little flu'.

'The pandemic is actually speeding up,' says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the world needs to learn to live with the virus without losing hope.

Two experts from the World Health Organization are heading to China to help define the terms of reference for a larger investigation.

Isolating COVID-19 cases and quarantining contacts is necessary in the Americas in order to prevent further lockdowns, says the World Health Organization.

The World Health Organization's chief scientist says AstraZeneca appears to be in the lead in the effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine, but Chinese companies are making significant strides.  

The world is in a 'new and dangerous phase,' says the World Health Organization, and growing numbers of refugees face health and economic hardships.