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A lack of clean water in the Gaza Strip is raising major concerns for human health.

Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison.

The government of Nepal has fielded the candidacy of country's senior public health expert Dr Shambhu Prasad Acharya.

The World Rabies Day is being observed today including in Nepal by organising various programmes.

Australian researchers have developed a nano-thin material that could be integrated into wound dressings to prevent or heal bacterial infections.

Mongolia's National Center for Zoonotic Diseases on Friday confirmed a death from bubonic plague in the western province.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that 32 positive environmental polio samples had been found in Afghanistan

Dr Shambhu Prasad Acharya has, on behalf of Nepal, registered his candidacy for the regional director of the World Health

Only four countries -- Brazil, Mauritius, the Netherlands and Turkey -- have adopted all the anti-tobacco measures recommended in the fight.

Minister for Health and Population Mohan Bahadur Basnet has pledged to make the health services accessible and of quality