The World Health Organization (WHO) is introducing immediate cost-cutting measures including a freeze on all but critical staff recruitment, according to an email from the Director-General to staff sent late Thursday. The body is also prioritising activities related to health priorities, “significantly reducing” travel, limiting procurement and suspending office upgrades. All meetings will be virtual […] Continue reading ->
Hours after reclaiming the presidency, Donald Trump moved swiftly on Monday to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement and unleash a barrage of executive orders aimed at dismantling US climate policy, boosting fossil fuel production, and undercutting green energy technologies. The sweeping actions, which are expected to trigger months of legal challenges […] Continue reading ->
United States President Donald Trump may face a lawsuit over his failure to get the approval of US Congress to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO). “Trump made a unilateral decision to pull out of WHO. But we joined WHO in 1948 by an Act of Congress. Trump needs Congress’ approval to withdraw,” said […] Continue reading ->
Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region after one case tested positive for the virus following investigations and laboratory analysis of suspected cases of the disease.  Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced this during a press briefing on Monday with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom […] Continue reading ->
As Bangladesh presses for its former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to be extradited to face charges of human rights abuses, her daughter, the World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for South East Asia (SEARO), is also under scrutiny. Saima Wazed was elected to the WHO position by regional leaders in November 2023 amid allegations that […] Continue reading ->
WHO and other UN and international relief agencies heartily welcomed Wednesday’s announcement of a long-awaited  Israeli-Hamas ceasefire. Israelis and Palestinians, meanwhile, began an anxious countdown, hoping that the agreement would indeed take effect as planned Sunday – even as Israel and Hamas traded accusations Thursday that the other was trying to torpedo the accord. “Wednesday’s […] Continue reading ->
Diagnosing obesity should extend beyond body mass index (BMI) to include measures such as waist circumference and individual physical symptoms. So says the Commission on Clinical Obesity, comprising 58 experts from a range of medical institutions and countries in an article published in Tuesday’s The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. There has long been a debate […] Continue reading ->