The head of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, waded into the ongoing controversy surrounding Somali soccer referee Omar Artan on Wednesday, celebrating the sporting official after the U.S. government denied him entry due to alleged ties to terrorist organizations.
The DR Congo counted 101 fatalities, 19 recoveries, and 550 confirmed cases in the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak as of Sunday.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.), in conjunction with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), launched a campaign this month to raise $518 million to aid in the containment of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda.
The latest World Health Organization (W.H.O.) update on the Ebola outbreak centered in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this weekend confirmed 534 cases of the disease in the area, including 93 confirmed deaths.
Roger Kamba, Minister of Public Health for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), complained on Friday that travel restrictions against his country due to the Ebola outbreak are “discriminatory” and cannot be justified by science or medicine.
Fighters from an insurgent group linked to the Islamic State killed 16 civilians in the eastern Congo, the area of the Ebola outbreak.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus demanded on Wednesday that countries imposing travel restrictions on visitors to stop the spread of the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) lift them, claiming they were harming containment efforts.
The stakes could not have been higher for the head of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus, as he spent the weekend in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) overseeing his agency’s response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak there.
UN health chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus landed on Saturday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo province worst-hit by a severe Ebola outbreak, an AFP journalist saw.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday evening, seeking to support the medical response to the fast-growing outbreak of Ebola Bundibugyo.
The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, lamented in remarks on Wednesday that violent attacks on health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have made contact tracing “nearly impossible,” significantly damaging attempts to contain the Ebola outbreak there.
Canada and the Bahamas on Tuesday announced temporary travel bans on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda, and South Sudan due to the ongoing Ebola outbreak.
The worst fears of World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus have been realized. The career Ethiopian bureaucrat confirmed late Monday the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts in Africa and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease.
A second incident of Congolese youths storming an Ebola clinic to demand the return of infected bodies for funerals took place on Sunday evening, as the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced the number of suspected infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda has surpassed 900.
The Ebola treatment center at Rwampara Hospital in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo was set on fire Thursday during a brawl between local police and a mob of angry youths attempting to claim the body of an Ebola victim.
The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in the Congo (DRC) began much earlier than previously suspected.
President Donald Trump said on Monday he was “concerned” about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), because it could have a “breakout” beyond the current infection area.
As the world watches an Ebola outbreak which has claimed 131 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a World Health Organization (W.H.O). representative warned Tuesday the deadly malady may be disseminating faster than first thought.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the world is facing a “global health financing emergency” in the latest edition of the agency’s World Health Statistics report, published on Wednesday.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and Spanish health officials on Monday updated their tally of hantavirus cases linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius to seven confirmed cases and two reported infections under investigation.
Passengers started disembarking on Sunday from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship anchored off Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, hours after arriving there as evacuation plans got underway.
Sky News on Thursday spoke with Martin Antsee, a former police officer who was aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius during the deadly hantavirus outbreak. Antsee was airlifted to the Netherlands for treatment, and remains in isolation.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced this week that the process to allow countries to sign onto its pandemic treaty would likely be stalled through 2027 after a negotiating team working on a “benefit sharing” system failed to reach consensus.
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammed Eslami accused the IAEA of ignoring the danger from U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus issued multiple statements over the past week weighing in on the conflict in Iran, warning that American operations to neutralize the terrorist regime could cause a “nuclear accident” and advising that “peace is the best medicine.”
Drastic cuts forced on the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) by President Donald Trump withdrawing U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding the globalist behemoth are hitting hard, the organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lamented.
America’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is set to formally conclude on Thursday, a year after the U.S. expressed its intent to depart the United Nations agency and a year and two days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process.
An unnamed World Health Organization (W.H.O.) spokesperson insisted in remarks published on Thursday that the agency is not seeking to change its current, meager relationship with Taiwan after a senior Japanese government official claimed this week that W.H.O. chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus promised more cooperation with Taipei.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested in remarks on Tuesday to African and European leaders that “sudden and unplanned” spending cuts following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. agency were an “opportunity” for poorer countries to pursue sovereignty.
The Africa Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) and World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Friday confirmed an outbreak in Ethiopia of the lethal Marburg virus, a pathogen with symptoms similar to the infamous Ebola virus, but even more deadly and difficult to treat.
The Sudanese insurgent militia known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) overran the city of al-Fashir and raided its last functioning hospital this week, reportedly killing hundreds of people and displacing thousands of others.
A report published by the World Health Organization on Monday found that as many as 871,000 deaths a year could be linked to loneliness, emphasizing that social connection has a direct correlation to increased positive health outcomes.
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) reintroduced a bill that would affirm that the W.H.O. pandemic agreement is a treaty subject to Senate approval.
China claims W.H.O.’s Pandemic Agreement was guided by dictator Xi Jinping’s “vision of building a global community of health for all.”
The World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) body made up of its state members, formally adopted the Pandemic Agreement on Tuesday, an international legal document that commits signatories to sharing medical technology, expanding vaccination campaigns, and promoting “equity.”
Prepare to be watched. The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on Tuesday designed to help it tackle future health crises predicated on an enhanced ability to watch, monitor and surveil specific national responses to threats.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) began its annual nine-day meeting Monday on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with upwards of eight thousand attendees flying in for the event from all around the world. The elites gathered as the United Nations subsidiary began crying poor and publicly doubting its ability to ever again meet crises like the coronavirus epidemic after U.S. funding cuts struck at the heart of its finances.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced on Wednesday that its negotiators had completed a final draft of a proposed international legal document to govern pandemic response, to be voted on at the World Health Assembly in May.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that a final draft of a “pandemic agreement” is one article away from completion.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus opened the latest round of talks on the drafting of a “pandemic accord” on Monday following an unprecedented pandemic response simulation involving over 15 countries.
