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WHO Accused of Relenting to Alcohol Lobby in Action Plan to Battle ‘Harmful Use’ and Risks of Noncommunicable Disease
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Only 14 countries are on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by ...
Delegates Agree to Tighten Pandemic Regulations, Get Reality Check from Civil Society
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While three independent review panels concur that the response of the World Health Organization (WHO) to COVID-19 was inadequate, member states ...
WHO Board Supports Tedros Nomination, as United States Sets Conditions for Increased Financing
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Despite earlier disruption from Ethiopia, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus received overwhelming support for his nomination for a second term as World ...
Ethiopia’s Dispute with Tedros May Spill into Vote for New Director-General
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Ethiopia may try to disrupt Tuesday morning’s closed session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board meeting where the nomination ...
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Throat Swab? Nose? Best Test Yet of Omicron’s Spread May be a Sewage Sample
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Health-Worker Risks of Catching Omicron Half as Likely after Fourth Dose – Second Israeli Study Challenges Earlier Results
In still evolving data, yet another Israeli study has found that health workers who received a fourth dose of a ...
21/01/2022
105 Countries Set to Receive Generic Versions of New Merck Anti-COVID Drug, Molnupiravir
The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) said Thursday that it had already signed agreements with 27 generic manufacturing companies for the ...
20/01/2022
France Approves COVID-19 Vaccine Pass Law, Joins Other EU Countries With COVID Fines and Mandates 
France’s newest measure to tackle COVID-19 – requiring a certificate of vaccination at public places such as restaurants, cafes, cinemas, ...
17/01/2022
Throat Swab? Nose? Best Test Yet of Omicron’s Spread May be a Sewage Sample
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COVAX Update: Enough Vaccines but Big Disparities in Uptake – Exacerbating Risks of New Variants 
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Mixed Reaction in Africa to WHO’s New Position on Booster Shots
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WHO Africa Region: COVID-19 Vaccination Shifting from Supply-Side to Distribution Challenge
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Global Health Policy in Geneva & Worldwide
africa emediterranean-1 emediterranean-2 europe latam namerica seasia-1 seasia-2 wpacific
Africa
Eastern Mediterranean
Europe
Latin America & Caribbean
North America
South-East Asia
Western Pacific
AfricaMore
COVAX Update: Enough Vaccines but Big Disparities in Uptake – Exacerbating Risks of New Variants 
WHO Executive Board 150
Mixed Reaction in Africa to WHO’s New Position on Booster Shots
Emergency Response
Throat Swab? Nose? Best Test Yet of Omicron’s Spread May be a Sewage Sample
Surveillance
WHO Africa Region: COVID-19 Vaccination Shifting from Supply-Side to Distribution Challenge
Africa
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