Gabrielle Emanuel

Critics of Trump's order to pull out of the WHO say it makes room for China to grow in its influence. But Trump says he's leaving the WHO partly because of China's influence. Policy analysts weigh in.

In a memo obtained by NPR, acting Health Secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from "a presidential appointee."

Four key decisions await Trump: reinstating the Mexico City Policy; withdrawing from WHO, abandoning the Pandemic Prevention Treaty and de-authorizing PEPFAR, the HIV prevention program.

Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has identified the cause.

Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.

In 2024, the World Health Organization certified the elimination of a disease in nine countries. We focus on how Pakistan got rid of trachoma, which can cause blindness.

HIV/AIDS cases and deaths have gone up dramatically in the Philippines in the last decade, even though there are drugs to both prevent transmission and to treat the disease.

As the new cases and related deaths fall in sub-Saharan Africa, the virus is rearing its head elsewhere. What's the cause? And the solution?

Over 800 million people have genital herpes — and in many cases the virus can flare up over a person's lifetime, causing painful symptoms. So why doesn't the world pay more attention?

An unidentified illness has claimed lives in DRC. Investigators are on the scene to determine what it is — and how much of a threat it poses locally and globally.