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Egypt
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Health
10/20/2024 4:26:08 PM
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated Egypt on Sunday on eliminating malaria, describing it as “another important milestone”.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/14/2024 5:22:10 PM
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said late Sunday that a WHO-Palestine Red Crescent operation had managed to resupply two hospitals in northern Gaza, following Israeli attacks.
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World
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Africa
8/30/2024 7:04:25 PM
The first delivery of mpox vaccines is expected to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming days, the World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday.
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World
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Africa
8/4/2024 8:36:50 PM
The World Health Organization's chief said Sunday he was considering convening an expert committee to advise on whether the growing pox outbreak in Africa should be declared an international emergency.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/29/2024 1:05:38 PM
A World Health Organization mission reached the north of Gaza for the first time in more than two weeks, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
12/31/2023 4:54:55 PM
The World Health Organization announced that it led a mission to barely functioning hospitals in northern Gaza over the weekend, describing the growing despair and hunger that prompted residents to seize supplies from an aid truck.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/26/2023 12:04:41 AM
World Health Organization (WHO) staff visited Monday a Gaza hospital receiving casualties from deadly strikes on a refugee camp, hearing distressing stories of entire families killed and seeing dying children.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/14/2023 1:59:16 PM
A plane carrying medical supplies for the Gaza Strip from the World Health Organization (WHO) landed Saturday in El-Arish airport in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/5/2023 8:57:02 PM
Around 18 million doses of the first malaria vaccine will be delivered to 12 African countries by 2025, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Vaccine Alliance said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
4/20/2023 3:12:53 PM
The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appealed on Thursday for an urgent truce in Sudan, describing the situation in the country as as increasingly concerning and heartbreaking.
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World
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Region
3/1/2023 2:35:36 PM
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited rebel-held northwestern Syria on Wednesday, his first trip to areas outside Damascus's control since a devastating quake last month, an AFP correspondent reported.
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World
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Region
2/11/2023 2:09:06 PM
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived on Saturday in Syria's quake-stricken city of Aleppo, state media reported.
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World
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International
1/15/2023 7:07:17 PM
The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of COVID-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December following weeks of complaints it was failing to tell the world what was happening.
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World
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International
1/4/2023 7:37:31 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday the agency is "concerned about the risk to life in China'' amid the coronavirus' explosive spread across the country and the lack of outbreak data from the Chinese government.
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World
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International
12/21/2022 8:23:37 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is ``very concerned'' about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its "zero COVID'' policy, warning that its lagging vaccination rate could result in large numbers of vulnerable people getting infected.
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World
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International
12/6/2022 8:15:00 PM
Negotiators are meeting in Geneva this week to thrash out a pandemic treaty aimed at ensuring the flaws that turned Covid-19 into a global crisis could never happen again.
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World
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Africa
11/16/2022 6:10:50 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he expects the first doses of Ebola vaccine targeting the strain behind an outbreak in Uganda to arrive in the country next week.
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World
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Africa
11/9/2022 7:55:36 PM
The WHO called Wednesday for a massive influx of food and medicines into Ethiopia's northern Tigray region following the ceasefire deal, saying no aid had yet been allowed in.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/1/2022 9:31:29 PM
The World Health Organization said Tuesday that its emergency committee had determined that monkeypox should continue to be classified as a global health emergency.
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World
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International
10/12/2022 7:53:45 PM
Case numbers in the global monkeypox outbreak have now topped 70,000, the WHO announced Wednesday as it warned that declining new cases did not mean people should drop their guard.
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