14th November 2025  Every year on 14 November, the world comes together to mark World Diabetes Day: a day of awareness, advocacy and action. This day isn’t just about facts and figures, it’s about the lives behind them, the work we still must do, and the promise of a better, […]

August 2025. Opioid overdose continues to be one of the most urgent public health threats of our time. Despite the fact that effective treatments and preventive measures exist, hundreds of thousands of lives are lost every year due to misuse, dependence, and overdose. Drawing on the latest WHO data, this […]

July 2025. Trachoma is not only the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, it is also one of the most persistent public health challenges, affecting some of the poorest and most remote communities on the planet. Caused by infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, this disease silently robs vision over […]

27th April to 3rd May 2025 Each year, the WHO European Region comes together to celebrate European Immunization Week (EIW), a pivotal initiative aimed at highlighting the importance of vaccines in safeguarding health and preventing the spread of dangerous diseases. This year, the theme is clear and powerful: “Immunization for […]

online, self-paced. TB is a preventable and curable disease, yet it is a common cause of sickness and death in children and adolescents. Every year, more than 1 million children and young adolescents fall ill with TB. Young children are at increased risk of severe disease and death; adolescents are […]

Each year on 25th April. World Malaria Day, marked each year on 25 April, is an occasion to highlight the global efforts to end malaria and the need for sustained political commitment and continued investment for malaria control and elimination. Through its 2023 theme of “Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, […]

Self-paced, online. Hundreds of millions of patients around the world are affected by health care-associated infections (HAI). Every day HAI result in prolonged hospital stays, long-term disability, increased resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobials, massive additional costs for health systems, emotional and personal burden for patients and their family, and unnecessary […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new Global Breast Cancer Initiative Framework today providing a roadmap to attain the targets to save 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040. The new Framework launched ahead of the World Cancer Day campaign marked tomorrow, recommends to countries to implement the three pillars […]

selfpaced, online. This course provides information on what facilities should be doing to be prepared to respond to a case of an emerging respiratory virus such as the novel coronavirus, how to identify a case once it occurs, and how to properly implement IPC measures to ensure there is no […]

24th March 2018, worldwide. Register Here The World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing a special virtual talk show to commemorate World TB Day on 24 March. This will put the spotlight on TB under the theme – ‘Invest to End TB. Save Lives’ to convey the urgent need to invest […]