An expert group charged by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has found no ...

New WHO report suggests COVID-19 originated from animal-to-human transmission, though Director-General Tedros maintains all ...

A draft pandemic treaty negotiated at the World Health Organisation (WHO) leaves health policy to national governments, ...

All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said, following an inconclusive four-year investigation that was hamstrung by crucial information being ...

The WHO's Commission on Social Connection report marks a milestone in global public health awareness and fosters cross-border ...

The World Health Organization's probe into the cause of COVID-19 has not resulted in a definitive reason, with its ...

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World Development Report 2022: FINANCE for an Equitable RecoveryThe COVID-19 pandemic triggered the largest global economic crisis seen in more than a century, with especially severe impacts for ...

Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when toxins in the oceans make landfall they imperil the health and well-being of more than 3 billion people, according to a new report by an ...

Full Report and Executive Summary Global growth is forecast at 3.0 percent for 2019, its lowest level since 2008–09 and a 0.3 percentage point downgrade from the April 2019 World Economic Outlook.