Bekkali serves as senior vice president and head of Europe and Canada and International Regions at Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease. On May 24, the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the ...

An annual gathering of the World Health Organization (WHO) drew to a close on May 27 after countries approved a historic pandemic agreement, increased core funding to the embattled United Nations (UN) ...

The decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted a resolution to establish a global framework to support the diagnosis and management of rare diseases and promote research ...

The just concluded World Health Assembly, WHA78, closed on a high note with key decisions made and landmark agreements reached. This year’s WHA was held in Geneva, Switzerland from 19th to 27th of May ...

Intergovernmental bodies such as the World Health Assembly adopt a wide range of resolutions and decisions on matters concerning global health.

Delegates at the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva [Photo: WHO] On May 20 at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78), member nations of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally adopted the first ...

The World Health Organization tried to stabilise its finances at its annual assembly which ended on Tuesday, but still remains well short of reaching its already reduced target. Hit by the withdrawal ...

Venomous snakebite is "the biggest public health crisis you've never heard of," said former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan as he was working to get the issue onto the global health agenda in 2015.