GENEVA – Faced with a chorus of demands for accountability from member nations, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus again pledged greater efforts by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) leadership to eliminate sexual exploitation and abuse by its staff and contractors at the World Health Assembly on Wednesday.  The discussion followed the recent publication of a […] Continue reading ->
In a groundbreaking decision on financing reform, the World Health Assembly (WHA) resolved on Tuesday that half of the world body’s budget will be derived from members’ fees by 2030. That will reduce the World Health Organization’s (WHO) massive reliance on donors. But there was less enthusiasm for revising the International Health Regulations (IHR). The […] Continue reading ->
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been re-elected unopposed to spend another five years at the helm of the UN health agency, after receiving the World Health Assembly’s overwhelming endorsement as a health diplomat fluent in war and a pandemic. Tedros, a former Ethiopian health minister and the first African to […] Continue reading ->
GENEVA – The world is still not ready to handle pandemics despite all of the international efforts to improve health care in recent years, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned in a wide-ranging opening address to the World Health Assembly’s 194 member nations. The World Health Organization must respond to dozens of global emergencies — cyclones, […] Continue reading ->
GENEVA – Russia’s attacks on healthcare facilities amid its war in Ukraine took center stage on the first full day of the World Health Assembly (WHA), where 46 mostly European nations including Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States proposed a draft resolution “condemning in the strongest terms” Russia’s invasion and the attacks on health facilities, […] Continue reading ->
Fifteen non-endemic World Health Organisation(WHO) member states have reported 95 confirmed cases of monkeypox between 13-22 May – but the language and imagery used to report the outbreak has raised concerns over the reemergence of disease-related stigma against LGBTI and African members of society.  Based on currently available information, the WHO said that cases have […] Continue reading ->