In a long and winding discussion Thursday at The World Health Organization’s Executive Board, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) pledged to redouble their efforts against noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes and obesity, which are having increasing impacts on health and well-being – in addition to infectious diseases that have been at the forefront of […] Continue reading ->
Only 14 countries are on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by one third by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed at its executive board meeting on Wednesday. After listening for over three hours to countries’ views on the WHO roadmap 2023–2030 to prevent and […] Continue reading ->
While three independent review panels concur that the response of the World Health Organization (WHO) to COVID-19 was inadequate, member states made slow progress in charting better alternatives at the executive board meeting on Wednesday. WHO members are considering three main proposals to improve the global body’s future pandemic preparedness: Setting up a Standing Committee […] Continue reading ->
Despite earlier disruption from Ethiopia, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus received overwhelming support for his nomination for a second term as World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General from the body’s executive board on Tuesday. As the only nominee, Tedros is guaranteed to be re-elected at the next World Health Assembly in May. All WHO regions expressed their […] Continue reading ->
Ethiopia may try to disrupt Tuesday morning’s closed session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board meeting where the nomination of the next Director-General will happen via secret ballot. Incumbent Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the only nominee, but Ethiopia – which nominated him four years ago – has taken exception to their former […] Continue reading ->
With the delivery of its one billionth dose last week, COVAX, the WHO co-sponsored vaccine facility, has established itself as the main pillar of vaccine supplies to the world’s 92 poorest economies – providing 82% of the vaccines those nations have received so far. But even as vaccine supplies now ease up, huge disparities persist […] Continue reading ->
Even though the end is not yet in sight for the COVID pandemic, the world can end it as a global health emergency in 2022, says WHO DG at the opening of the 150th sesssion of the World Health Organization Executive Board. While the world will be living with COVID for the foreseeable future, countries […] Continue reading ->
As the World Health Organization’s executive board meets this week, two major issues – reforming its finances and pandemic response – continue to defy easy consensus. A handful of powerful countries, including but not limited to the United States, remain hesitant over a plan to bolster the World Health Organization’s (WHO) finances by increasing member […] Continue reading ->
One of the more complicated tasks facing next week’s World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB) is how to take forward negotiations on an ‘instrument’ to address future pandemics – and even the report to the board about this has been slashed. The past two years of vaccine hoarding, nationalism and fights about the origins […] Continue reading ->
China wants to delete language supporting rapid World Health Organization (WHO) access to outbreak sites in future pandemics from a critical document that maps out a way forward in future pandemics, a diplomatic source has told Health Policy Watch. This emerged at Monday’s start of a three-day meeting in Geneva of the global body’s Working […] Continue reading ->