Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
13 Sep
World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged leaders meeting at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 78) in New York to put health for all on the highest political agenda and apply lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
24 May
Director General of World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned: “The threat of another variant emerging that causes new surges of disease and death remains, and the threat of another pathogen emerging with even deadlier potential remains.”
23 May
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning to countries all across the world to be prepared for a disease even much deadlier than the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
4 May
The World Health Organization's emergency committee is meeting Thursday to discuss if Covid-19 is still a global health emergency. The panel's 15th meeting on the crisis comes more than three years after it first sounded the WHO's highest emergency alarm as what was then called the novel coronavirus began spreading outside China. The independent committee…
26 Apr
The WHO said Wednesday that Covid-19 deaths had dropped by 95 percent since the start of the year -- but warned the virus was still on the move.
23 Mar
Two-and-a-half billion dollars: that’s how much funding the United Nations (UN) World Health Organisation (WHO) will need across its operations this year, it said on Monday, to help a record number of people facing disease and starvation.
1 Mar
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday visited areas of rebel-held northwestern Syria that were devastated by last month's earthquake, an AFP correspondent reported.
24 Feb
World Health Organisation (WHO), yesterday, said a woman dies every two minutes and 287,000 women yearly during pregnancy or childbirth, noting maternal health setbacks in many parts of the world have contributed to the disturbing finding.
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