World Mental Health Day 2023 is an opportunity for people and communities to unite behind the theme "Mental health is a universal human right," to improve knowledge, raise awareness and drive actions that promote and protect everyone’s mental health as a universal human right. WHO continues to work with its partners to ensure mental health is valued, promoted, and protected, and that urgent action is taken, so that everyone can access the quality mental health care they need. Join the World Mental Health Day 2023 campaign to learn more about your basic right to mental health.

Bolivia conducted twelve workshops to identify the lessons learned from COVID-19 and develop a pandemic preparedness plan for influenza and other respiratory viruses (ORVs). The WHO exercise was performed with a board game to strengthen the deployment of pandemic products.

Universal health coverage is a choice–a political choice- and at the recently concluded UNGA High-Level meeting, a new Political Declaration on Universal health coverage was approved. For health care to be truly universal, an approach to strengthening health systems centred on people’s needs, is one of the most effective areas for investment to accelerate progress. Staggering statistics reveal that 4.5 billion people—more than half of the world’s population—were not fully covered by essential health services in 2021. WHO is fully committed to working with Member States and partners to ramp up policy actions to expand service coverage, ensure financial protection and shape the financing architecture to invest more and better in health.

World Patient Safety Day 2023 is dedicated to the theme “Engaging patients for patient safety” and the slogan “Elevate the voice of patients!”

An estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020, and 1.6 million people died from TB (including 187,000 HIV-positive people), according to the World Health Organization’s 2022 Global TB report. The UN General Assembly is holding the second high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis on 22 September 2023. It aims to advance science, finance and innovation, and their benefits, to urgently end the global tuberculosis epidemic, in particular, by ensuring equitable access to prevention, testing, treatment and care.

UNFPA embraces femtech to boost period awareness in Burkina Faso and the Republic of Moldova.

As parts of the world experience record breaking temperatures, learn how heat harms us, who is at risk and what you can do to protect yourself. Dr Joy Shumake-Guillemot explains in Science in 5. Science in 5 is WHO's conversation in science.

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It's healthy and important for teens to express their emotions. Dr. Lisa Damour, psychologist, mother and best-selling author shares three ways you can help them express themselves. Visit UNICEF Parenting for more expert tips.

Steven Solomon, WHO Principal Legal Officer, unpacks the pandemic accord. The accord, being developed by countries, can be a game-changer in pandemic prevention and preparedness. Steven also clarifies the misinformation around the accord.

You’ve only got one life, and you’ve only got one liver. Hepatitis can devastate both. Your liver silently performs over 500 vital functions to keep you alive. But viral hepatitis infection is also silent, with symptoms only appearing once the disease is advanced. And that’s why liver health is fundamental to human health. So many hepatitis deaths could be prevented. Because there are vaccines and effective treatments for hepatitis B and even a cure for hepatitis C. This World Hepatitis Day (28 July) speak to your local healthcare provider to find out how to protect yourself from hepatitis.

World Drowning Prevention Day (25 July) serves as an opportunity to highlight the tragic and profound impact of drowning on families and communities and to offer life-saving solutions to prevent it. An estimated 236,000 people drown every year and drowning is among the ten leading causes of death for children aged 5-14 years. More than 90% of drowning deaths occur in rivers, lakes, wells, domestic water storage vessels and swimming pools in low- and middle-income countries - with children and adolescents in rural areas disproportionately affected.

In response to the current outbreaks of avian influenza (also called bird flu), WHO urges countries to work together across sectors to save as many animals as possible and to protect people. 

When armed groups attacked her village, seven months pregnant Tantine escaped with her family. Her luck took a turn for the better when she learned about a UNFPA mobile clinic operating in the camp.

The capacity of the maternal and neonatal ward in the District General Hospital in Matara, Sri Lanka, is increasingly falling short. UNOPS works to rehabilitate a new hospital to serve the community.

The world is moving faster than ever, but people are moving less. Research has found that one in four adults and over 80 per cent of young people do not meet the recommended minimum activity levels needed for optimum health. Starting with just 30 minutes of movement a day has significant health benefits for hearts, bodies and minds. The International Olympic Committee wants to inspire and enable the world to move more every day. Led by Olympians and created in collaboration with WHO, the Let’s Move campaign is an invitation to make time every day for movement for better health.