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US Aid Reductions Threaten Disease Control and Emergency Health Response, WHO Says
Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that recent US funding cuts are severely impacting global health ...
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Fifty countries affected by USAID freeze, says WHO
However, WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged the Trump administration to consider resuming aid funding until other solutions can be found. HIV treatments and other services have been ...
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WHO chief urges pandemic accord action after US withdrawal
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said no country could protect ... in time for the World Health Assembly” in May, Dr Tedros told WHO members at the opening of the week-long ...
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Strengthening alliances and building movements to end female genital mutilation
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a grave violation of human rights that causes lifelong ...
5 years since COVID declared public health emergency in US, still killing thousands
On the fifth anniversary of the U.S. declaring a public health emergency over COVID-19, people continue to lose their lives.
WHO decides mpox epidemic still global health emergency
Mpox remains an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization said Thursday after deciding the ...
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WHO Calls for Release of over 160 Gaza Medical Workers Held by Israel
Over 160 Palestinian healthcare workers remain in Israeli detention, with reports of torture, abuse, and deaths in custody.
Fifty countries affected by USAID freeze, says WHO
Programmes to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of overseas aid from the US, says the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). US ...
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WHO Recognises Niger As The First African Country To Eliminate Infectious Parasitic Disease Onchocerciasis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the efforts of Niger, a country in West Africa, in eliminating onchocerciasis-- also known as 'river blindness' -- a parasitic disease caused by ...
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Govt anticipated US aid cuts—Ggoobi
Finance ministry permanent secretary, Ramathan Ggoobi, says the Ugandan government anticipated the US foreign aid freeze. ;The blanket foreign aid cut that was occasioned ;immediately after Donald ...
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Five years ago today, an announcement was made to the world and everything changed
In a public statement, WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the public health emergency was being called over fears that the virus would start spreading in countries with "ill ...
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WHO Launches First-Ever Ebola Vaccine Trial In Uganda
Statement Of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO's Director-General In a statement, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO's Director-General, said that the candidate vaccine as well as candidate ...